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RedCascadian t1_ja0oni3 wrote

Reply to comment by kafelta in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Warehouse worker here. Essential just means expendable in our society. It's why I keep trying to persuade workers to unionize.

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28nov2022 t1_ja2iu21 wrote

Men are essential to running society yet are treated like trash. Like???

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RedCascadian t1_ja2tvdr wrote

That's a weird place to go. I work in an Amazon warehouse with 3k employees and I wouldn't be surprised if more of them were women. A lot of the highest performers, too.

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28nov2022 t1_ja2ufjl wrote

I dont know about amazon, but i worked in various factories in the 00s. I am always proud when i see women doing traditionally mens jobs.

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RedCascadian t1_ja2wusd wrote

It'd s lot of squatting and lunging with 35 lb or less items, so interestingly women's better leg muscle to body weight ratio would make them pound for pound more efficient.

They also seem to take better care of themselves and adopt better body mechanics faster (I train new hires and younstsrt noticing patterns).

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