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Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of? (lemmy.ml)
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I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.

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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Are there still places that legally mandate car refueling operators? That seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you've never seen the disaster some morons have caused at pumps...

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    that seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job

    That is exactly what it's for, and it prevents a lot of worse problems just by existing. It significantly reduces crime rates by allowing people who otherwise couldn't earn income, and provides a way for ex-cons to successfully reintegrate into society and not relapse, as well as providing low/no skill labor. It gives some a sense of purpose - retirees who physically can't do any other work for example and need something to do.

    It is literally there to give people jobs and its a good thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let’s whip out the spoons and replace our excavators!

    If you want convicts to have jobs, fix how society views them so that they’re not pariahs.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Right, this is much more important. We don’t need to require unnecessary jobs for ex-cons to find work, we need to do a better job of reintegrating them into society after they’ve done 5heir time

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That money would be better spent sending them to school to learn something useful.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You missed the low/no skill part, didn't you? There is a need for those.

    Or are you the kind of scum that believes we all need to "earn" a living. As if every being isn't entitled to exist unless in servitude to the economy. Fuck right off.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The rest of the world proves there's no need for people to pump your gas for you. Just about anyone can do that themselves. My point was that if this is the only way these people can be employed then we should instead take the money would they'd be paid for this and pay them to go to school instead so they can acquire the skills the need to get other jobs, whatever those jobs may be. Having them stand by a pump to put gas in people's cars is just a waste of everyone's time and resources. If this is somehow the only job they are capable of doing even with training available then just pay them to stay home. If there aren't enough low skill jobs to go around this is a better solution then making up busy work for people to do.

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