Within public sector work, there's an inverse relationship between social status and actual value generated.
Within public sector work, there's an inverse relationship between social status and actual value generated.
There's also a racial hierarchy within US public sector work, both within and across agencies, that is so obvious and overwhelming that it would lead to endless lawsuits if replicated in a major private sector firm.
@mnolangray Isn’t this more because garbage itself is dirty and smells, so the low status is primarily by association? The effect seems much weaker for, say, mailman
@mnolangray It's the pay gap. Young kids think garbage collectors are the coolest thing, cause it sort of is. I was the building trash manager during college, and it was lots of fun to ride loaded toters down the hill and sling trash bags across the parking lot into the dumpster.
@mnolangray How come garbage men and sanitary workers don't get paid more? I get that the skillset is not very specialized but given it is a socially stigmatizing job you would think they'd try to off set that with a higher wage.
@mnolangray My GPA retired young in his 40s. He was a garbage man.
@mnolangray Not too bad for low-skill work
@mnolangray Myballyballsack really laying it out there, making us have feelings
@mnolangray My dad started off his municipal careeer as a garbage man. He said it actually paid super well and they got a bunch of cool shit along the way.
@mnolangray Exactly… like cops have high status but low value generation.
@mnolangray Don’t *tons* of 10 year olds want to be the garbage man? All the little kids I know think it is the coolest job ever, especially if you get to ride on the back of the truck.
@mnolangray This is sad, because bin man should be a much cooler job to a ten year old than a lawyer - which should appear to be unbelievably boring to a fourth grader. You get to be outside all day AND drive a big machine?!
@mnolangray DEI mgrs stop working for a week vs. garbage men stop working for a week. This isn’t difficult.
@mnolangray Per my wife: as a young kid, her ideal man was a roofer. There's a real, unspoken correlation to danger and attraction.
@mnolangray so sick of status chasers and credentialism in the field of transportation & in the townplanning world
@mnolangray yeah yeah all that, but this is about the fact that in the US, kids are _abnormally_ mean to each other _as_a_standard_ you all seem to be proud of
@mnolangray Supply and demand. Anybody can be a sanitation worker.
@mnolangray @Tomi_Tapio Honest work is honest work. But please. I spend a year in a farm so about once a week we had to take out garbage to the local dump. It was not a big deal.
@mnolangray When I was a kid, I had 2 options for what I wanted to do: 1. Astronaut, 2. Garbage man
@mnolangray Farmer miner soldier steelworker: not praised, but high value generated
@mnolangray What do people think of public transportation operators? Machinists, bus drivers, etc etc