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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

My gosh. They don't even get to sit. And the neck pain I would have after 10–12 hours of this shit.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That's just regular assembly line work. They don't let you sit here either. I'm sure conditions are better here but it's a shit job that treats you like dirt no matter where you do it.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Where exactly is "here" for you?

I'm sure this is not the case in every country.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Probably USA.

Never seen a chair in an assembly line section except for an occasional desk.

Actually tbh I think the chair aspect is the least concerning. Chair vs standing is usually based on the task required, where chair is only provided as a necessity like work that requires higher precision or a certain type of dexterity.

Would probably see chairs for something like component soldering or sewing.

Otherwise they could easily fashion all those workers with a cheap plastic chair in the picture since they clearly spent the money on proper attire and health standards.

Looks like seafood processing, which I've never seen a chef or cook do sitting lol. Have seen squatting but I don't think that counts.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's good not be sedentary for the majority of the day obviously, but it's nice to offload your feet at some intervals if you're not varying the load on the foot and legs. Standing still for hours is torture.

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[–] creamfresh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

well our lifestyle doesn't support itself

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[–] manniesalado@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago

It's a job. How is the pay? Looks like lunch is included,

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

hey now.

are you telling me all those lemmy.ml users were lying when they told me that China is the best? that China is better than the US? that China is a great place to work and live?

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[–] djmikeale@feddit.dk 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Hey! I can chime in here! I studied Chinese and business like 10 years ago (so my knowledge might be a bit outdated) so I can provide a bit of context.

A lot of workers from rural China has limited work opportunities or would earn very little. So what they do is they'd migrate to bigger cities where they'd be able to work at factories (like the one in this pic) at a higher wage and more hours. Then they send their wage home. Some things that surprised me was that in many cases the workers themselves would request long hours, to earn more, and that they'd likely only go home for the big holidays like lunar New year

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[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 7 points 3 months ago

It's understandable from a person-by-person scale but that doesn't make it acceptable.

Often, a group of individual workers each acting in their own personal financial interest can disadvantage workers as a whole. One person working themselves to exhaustion to provide for their family can raise expectations for all workers to do the same. That's why collective bargaining is so important for labour rights.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

For a while I was hiring people in a nearby country, and despite advertising it as daytime office hours only, the majority of applicants would ask if they could work nights instead because they already had a job during the day that wouldn't give them overtime.