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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My dad and brother had back problems and they were brick layers and then janitors. Only sat at breaktime.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Repeated motion injuries can happen even in very fit people. The body needs time to heal even from low impact/low stress movement. Especially if it's at the edge of what's "easy".

A good example is a food server. Even if you can handle the weight of a fully loaded tray easy enough, unless that weight is like throwing a nurf ball around for you, you're going to need a healing period after a long shift. Most likely longer than any asshole shift manager would ever allow if you're a small pretty gal.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

yeah. I brought it up mostly to contrast the its from sitting thing. Lots of folks in physical trades had back problems. It was a trope really. Working class dads with back going out and corpo dads with heart attacks.