3mo ago

80% of Americans scream, ‘Bring back manufacturing jobs!’ But ask them to actually work in a factory? Suddenly, only 20% are interested...

https://www.ft.com/content/845917ed-41a5-449f-946f-70263adbaeb7

3mo ago

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Everyone wants to manage the mines but no one wants to push the carts
Petit bourgeois/mid management brainrot
- I'd love to push carts. I just don't want black lung on top of all the other respiratory shit I have to deal with. I did my time in manufacturing and just a few years fucked me up.
  
  Agreed.
I kinda don't blame them. I used to work in a steel factory and it was rough. Though the thing that made it rough was shit working conditions. I feel like if that improves, working in a factory would be pretty decent.
retvrn to manvfactvre
good
go to the factory
no, send the migrants there!
well...jesus from sinaloa is not here now...you have to pick up the slack, timmy!
I actually liked working my factory jobs but unfortunately in the US they don't let you sit even if you could fulfill your role on the line in a chair. If this changed then my ideal career would be factory work.
USians can be a weird bunch. I swear there's like this thing of simultaneously having very strong opinions about how things should be (because of basically believing they live in a democracy) while also being shy of getting directly involved in the process of stuff. Like viewing themselves more as arbiters who are consulted occasionally than direct participants in society. Obviously doesn't apply to everybody, but seems like there's something consistent to it that is reflected in this kind of poll. (And I am not trying to say this from on high, I am USian myself and may have some of this in me.)
- "And I'll send all the money you ask for, just don't ask me to come on along. Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal."
I worked in a plastic factory for a few days...yeah it was absolutely soul crushing. I was placed onto a machine where the speed required to keep up with the bottles felt like a sadistic prank, and the shifts where 12 hours long. I was left on it by myself my first day being on it and it got to a point where all the bottles where falling off the machine because I couldn't. Then the lady in charge came over and told I'd be sent to that office if it happened again.
On top of that, the place was filled with plastic fumes and particle and didn't provide any breathing masks that I saw. Another lady there told her husband got fired because he got cancer and they want didn't want the liability.
Yeah, not the best experience.
- I've worked at a company that did injection molding, and they made people have to work at superhuman speeds with equipment that continued to give injuries. Part of the reason is because they would collect data from the fastest person on the machine and expect everyone else to work as fast. The mentors who were being timed caught on and started working slower to make the pace less ridiculous. Management would also let go of people who had injuries because they didn't want to pay for it.
Personally I would like to work in a semiconductor factory as an engineer or even start in an entry level position. Probably won't happen in my lifetime if I stay where I live, and it will probably become more difficult to achieve in Amerikkka as tarriffs lead to domestic industry crumbling while the working class begins to lose access to basic necessities like education and healthcare. My dream at this point is revolution or move to China, if I even survive.
lol. lmao
This seems like manufacturing consent for the inevitable Automation and AI technology thats being developed to replace all those factory jobs. For the Techbro future that the US government is serving.
- manufacturing consent

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