Have you ever had a job where someone says “You wouldn't believe how many people i've seen come and go at this place” ? Implying that the job is too difficult for most people and the ones who survive are somehow better at what they do and therefore their employment status should be treated as an accomplishment of superiority?
Sure the job is too difficult, but what if its management that sucks? What if the training is lacking? what if it doesn't pay enough?
To get to my point, employee turnover is a management problem, its not an employee problem. Yet we're told to think that a job being too difficult / too laborious / too stressful etc is the employees fault for not “having what it takes”. This was the attitude in the produce dept at Whole Foods Market, which was the most labor intensive job I've ever done for $15 / hr. This was also the attitude at a FedEx Ground warehouse.
It kind of blows my mind that some companies think of their low paying work as a privilege that only a select few will succeed at.