There is No Such thing as a “Low Skilled” Worker.

NYC’s Mayor Eric Adams would lead you to believe otherwise, though.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJan 9, 2022
Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash

Eric Adams has been mayor for a grand total of nine days, but that hasn’t prevented him from already managing to make headlines and attract the ire of many on the left. At a recent press conference where he discussed his intentions of getting the New York’s workers back into the office, Adams said:

“My low skill workers, cooks, my dishwashers, my messengers, my shoe shine people, those who work in Dunkin Donuts, they don’t have the academic skills to sit in a corner office.”

It appears this is Adams’ unfortunate idea of advocating for these workers he deems “low skill”.

There is absolutely no such thing as a low skill worker.

I worked at Dunkin Donuts during the summer when I was home from college, and at Aeropostale in the mall when I was at school. The Dunkin Donuts job in particular was unequivocally the most difficult job I will ever have.

My manager was probably one of the cruelest, most sadistic and mentally abusive people I have ever encountered in person. She got pleasure out of treating her…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx