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Can you take a person off the street and have them washing dishes competently by this afternoon? Can you take a person off the street and have them doing your job competently by this afternoon?

The fable of the plumber captures the essence of this.

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I literally did this. At the end of Chaos Communication Camp last year I had no reason to immediately leave, so I went to see if they needed some extra help and ended up drying and stacking dishes for an hour.

I hope you realize this mostly just reveals you have no clue how hard and skill-intensive kitchen work is. Yes, even dishwashing. The average person is not going to be able to drop into a kitchen and wash thousands of dishes a night.

They are, but it's exhausting. I thought the complaint was that it required skills and training, not that it was exhausting?

I have work lots in kitchen. Your post just shows you’re full of it. We have hired people off the street to wash dishes. Yeah of course people quit on the first day sometimes. Same goes for working other entry level jobs.

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