opelmanta1900 wrote:this is my favorite story of the day... I worked at a pizza place fresh out of high school, and a monkey could have done my job! I would have been an idiot not to be happy with the $8/hour I was getting and all the free pizza I could smuggle out...
I really think the problem is that everyone wants every job to pay great and offer excellent opportunities...
some jobs are just meant to be performed by teenagers living in their parents house still... they're not meant for a grown man to support a family with...
I will admit to a little smugness when I saw that.
It's unfortunate, but it would have happened anyway. The increased minimum wage just sped it up a little. Given enough time, the technology would have become cheap enough that it would have happened at the prior minimum wage.
Hell, WaWa has had similar kiosks for a few years now.