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A little bit of both. The body shop outsources the risk of putting butts in chairs, and removing them when you’re done.

It’s crap work for crap pay. In the 70s and 80s when this stuff was new, it made sense to “grow” and train operators and more blue collar folks driven by runbooks and tight frameworks. Nowadays you just hire low skill folks “off the shelf”.



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