Automation Question

[dewline]

I think it's already happened to me, effective end of May.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/do-you-worry-you-could-lose-your-job-to-a-robot-1.4008979

Comments

[thewayne]

I'm sorry to hear it, as this is the beginning of my 9th month of unemployment I can understand. I hope you can turn something up quickly, my problem is the lack of any good jobs in this area.

I read an interesting article about automation. It was specifically talking about McDonalds, Panera(?), and one other fast food org that were adding order kiosks to their restaurants. Two of them said they were not decreasing staff, while Panera said they were increasing staff because of the increase in orders. It has been reported that millennials prefer ordering from a kiosk to having to interact with a person, which I don't understand but whatever floats your boat.

[dewline]

Nine months...? Oy.

Never heard of Panera before reading this. McDonalds...I've seen some of the "renovations" at local outlets. Disorienting to look at, to be honest. Not sure that the reports of millennials preferring kiosks isn't some kind of generational slander at their expense.

[thewayne]

I haven't stepped foot in a McD's in a very long time, I occasionally hit the drive thru while on the road to get a kid's meal for myself, but they were not on my lunch stop list when I was working. At that time I would do a couple of local places, plus Wendy's, Carl's Jr., and on rare occasion Arby's.

Yeah, my last interview was at the end of January for a part time weekends-only position at a rifle range that paid a whopping $8.50 an hour. Got a nice letter, didn't get the job, and the job is still up on the county web site. And I would have had to buy a sidearm if I had gotten the job, so that's another $600-800 out of pocket. So call it 80 hours or so of work to just cover buying a sidearm.