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DeTrotseTuinkabouter t1_j71y0ml wrote

Reply to comment by animal56 in ‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city - Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain. by speckz

It's incredible how much of a rough deal factory line work is. I'm a white collar workers and a lot of blue collar work I can imagine doing. A lot of it might be way harder on my body and there's other downsides, but yeah it's an option.

But working a job where you do the same thing every four seconds? Christ..

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MrDeeds117 t1_j72pm6r wrote

I’m happy making my $28 doing the same thing for 8 hours!

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anabolicartist t1_j72y3ku wrote

Are you kidding me? 8 hour shifts? Sheesh. No one wants to work these days.

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Happyman255 t1_j732wo4 wrote

Fuck I work 13 hours 6 days a week. I also make 14k a month take home doing it tho so it's a trade off.

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Peltonimo t1_j76d56x wrote

Wtf do you do for that much money? What's your base pay? I make $35 an hour and I've had weeks where I worked 84 hours (18 being holiday hours), but I get taxed so heavily I could never make close to that. $4,500 down to like $2,500.

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lilsky07 t1_j76dcit wrote

Probably sales of some kind. I used to pull that much when the markets were better. Don’t miss the stress though. Took a job with less hours and half the pay and now I get to actually see my family and friends.

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PoopIsAlwaysSunny t1_j750n70 wrote

Where you have to keep up a high pace of work day in and day out and the pay is kinda trash.

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