If you think your cushy white collar job sucks, you should get a load of blue collar work. A friend of mine tried working in a hotel as a maid and general maintenance person. She was given no training of any kind and then screamed at because she did things wrong.

Note that she is generally capable person with a very can-do attitude and who can get shit done. (Think Kaylee from Firefly but with way better hair.)

She lasted two days. And I probably would’ve quit sooner. Not only was there no training, her boss was terrible in all other ways and she was lightly sexually harassed by two different customers in that short time (it probably didn’t help that she’s young, and looks even younger than that, but that makes it even more creepy).

Similar things (with probably less sexual harassment) happen to men as well. Blue collar work is a dumpster fire but that gets reported on a whole lot less than white collar for various reasons. And movements like #MeToo did almost nothing to help here (in fact, almost certainly did more harm than good).