posted on Dec, 21 2018 @ 05:12 AM
I'm not defending it the nature of warehouse or factory work, I've been there done that. When I graduated high school I was working third shift and
first shift back to back. That's almost an entire day working. I was basically working a whole day, and sleeping a whole day. It was alright for a
little while. I was making a lot of money for my age despite only making ten dollars an hour. After a couple of months I felt like #. So, I left. I
went and started working in restaurants making # money. So, then I started doing the whole bartending thing and made some decent money. Then, I got
tired of that and joined the military. After I got out of the military I did some work in factories and warehouses for a short period of time as an
automation technician.
The conditions weren't that much different than when I worked in one as puller/picker/fork lift operator. But, man at least when I did the work there
was some sort of stability. I think consistency might be a better word. You did the same thing all day every day. Now, when I was working as a
technician not having to deal with that BS people stretched so thin. When I did it everybody had one job. That's all you had to do. You didn't even
have to be good at it, as long as it was done by the end of the day. Now, I saw people having to do multiple people's jobs. With the same supervisors
coming in once an hour just to tell the person to stop and do something completely meaningless, just to later scream at them about how they're not
being productive.
There were a few times where I would be in a situation where I could talk to people and they would seem so scared that someone was talking to them. I
would tell them if they aren't happy they should leave. Go back to school, or find some other type of work. I would ask them if they really wanted to
keep being miserable or take a chance and do something else more meaningful, and yet they never would leave.
People stay in those jobs because they have no drive. They don't want anything better. If they did they would go and do it. They have no goals, no
drive, no vision. They can't think for themselves.