Post by DesertMoon on Mar 17, 2016 10:21:26 GMT -5
What if there is a thunderstorm? I can't have my burger automated flipper break down. I need a warm body to jump in and make my sandwich with honour, dignity and extra mayo.
It goes beyond ordering kiosks, though. Wawa has order screens and it really improves accuracy - letting the food preparers deliver better customer service.
But with most fast food, employee training is still the major financial investment they just want to eliminate. Employees are literally designed to be interchangeable cigs in the wheel with as little training as possible. No wonder automated sandwich makers are on the horizon. No training AND no pay. And many people won't even notice there's not a real person putting together their burger.
I am going to keep this in mind always when shopping. I feel like not using these things is our only hope, particularly if we're living in Donald J. Trumpland where we'll never get a basic income when the robots take over all of our jobs.
I know that this always comes up when people complain about raising the minimum wage but it is not a realistic solution. I worked the self check at a grocery store and it requires daily maintenance by someone and is really expensive to repair. Since these are more specialized jobs, you also have to pay the people with the knowledge more than minimum wage.
Of course this particular argument also ignores that higher minimum wage increases economic activity. I find the people who arguse against it because it is common sense also tend to use a lot of logical fallacies, because nuanced thought is harder.
My Lucky has four self checkouts. One is routinely out of order and it takes two human beings to monitor the people trying to use them.
Isn't Carl's Jr the restaurant featured in Idiocracy where they have no employees/ just a kiosk you order at, and a cheeseburger is like a million dollars?
Yes ma'am!
The Hardees by my house just closed. So, easy to boycott!
Duuuuuude... that movie is proving to be eerily prophetic.
I am going to keep this in mind always when shopping. I feel like not using these things is our only hope, particularly if we're living in Donald J. Trumpland where we'll never get a basic income when the robots take over all of our jobs.
I really do not fear this because the company I worked for that had the self check hated them. They only kept them because customers requested them and felt like the store's that did not have them were behind on technology. It cost more money to run the machines, monitor for different types of theft and keep them in working order.
There have to be some enormous strides in technology before it is actually cheaper than human capital.
Duuuuuude... that movie is proving to be eerily prophetic.
I've been saying this for years!
But, really, though. I like having the self-checkouts for times when I'm just running to the store to pick up a box of tampons or something. But, inevitably, I'll end up behind someone who's trying to buy two shopping carts full of stuff in the self-checkout. Dude, that would be so much easier with an actual cashier!
I prefer humans to self check out because self check out machines are always having some issue, then I have to wait for the sole human whose job it is to deal with all the self checkout machine issues to come to me. I've left things before because I was about to miss my train and the stupid machine wouldn't let me buy my stuff.
also who wants to go into a building that you know has no, or barely any people and food is constantly being cooked? no thanks, sounds like a place that might catch fire or just explode from an unidentified gas leak or something.
Between this, the President Camacho meme, and the article about the Simpsons predicting a Trump presidency 16 years ago, I am really weeping for humanity today.
I am going to keep this in mind always when shopping. I feel like not using these things is our only hope, particularly if we're living in Donald J. Trumpland where we'll never get a basic income when the robots take over all of our jobs.
I really do not fear this because the company I worked for that had the self check hated them. They only kept them because customers requested them and felt like the store's that did not have them were behind on technology. It cost more money to run the machines, monitor for different types of theft and keep them in working order.
There have to be some enormous strides in technology before it is actually cheaper than human capital.
I always wondered about this. It seems like it would be easier to wander out with stuff you didn't pay for with those.