gryphonms
12 years ago
Had not thought of that but it makes sense. Supply and demand dictates value, not legislation. Interesting that the possibility of a higher minimum wage will decrease the number of minimum wage jobs.
opelmanta1900
12 years ago

http://www.caintv.com/mcdonalds-now-testing-automate

victor809 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...
DrafterX
12 years ago
I thought this about cookies..... I Want My Cookie Dammit..!! 😠
Gene363
12 years ago

I thought this about cookies..... I Want My Cookie Dammit..!! 😠

DrafterX wrote:



Yeah! Where the cookies at? [mad]

victor809
12 years ago

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...

opelmanta1900 wrote:



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.
Abrignac
12 years ago
Ask & you will receive. It's all about hope and change baby, hope & change.
ZRX1200
12 years ago
I want my damn snickerdoodle,!
jetblasted
12 years ago
I thought this was about Fergeson MO ... I want my cookie, too
jackconrad
12 years ago
They could not possibly be as bad as the real help..
frankj1
12 years ago
years ago, banks introduced ATMs claiming they would save money because they would eliminate the necessity of paying humans to do the same job. The inference was we'd all save on service fees.

Once established and accepted by customers, they started charging fees to use them, as if they were suddenly an expensive convenience they were offering us and just wanted to recoup the expense of these cost saving devices...can you say new revenue stream?

It is said you can't have it both ways, but they pulled it off. I don't go to Macs or any equivalent, but if I did I'd pass on using the automated ordering system. I am hardly against businesses making profits, but I will not support those that are determined to eliminate jobs while blaming greedy workers.
opelmanta1900
12 years ago

They could not possibly be as bad as the real help..

jackconrad wrote:



^This... Frank, if you go to a McDonalds (which I highly recommend against) you will be begging for these machines... my experience has been that what little english fast food workers know, they usually use to tell you they're out of something...
Thunder.Gerbil
12 years ago
What's the big deal? Arby's has been doing this for about 25 years. Their original systems allowed around 6-8 customers to punch in their own orders simultaneously on touch screens and a single cashier would handle the money for all of the stations. They've been running fully automated ones similar to McDonald's where the kiosk handles the money for about 5 years now in select locations.
frankj1
12 years ago

^This... Frank, if you go to a McDonalds (which I highly recommend against) you will be begging for these machines... my experience has been that what little english fast food workers know, they usually use to tell you they're out of something...

opelmanta1900 wrote:


no doubt you are correct. hope I never have the experience.
Gene363
12 years ago

While a robotic cook might drop a little metal dust or oil on my burger it will never spit on my burger, drop a roach on my burger or pick it up off the floor.

Honestly, except for getting teenagers some work experience, fast food joints are pretty miserable places to work. For other places like In and Out, Five Guys and Freddy's Steakburgers, they will be able to advertise, "Hand made food."

opelmanta1900
12 years ago
that's not that bad... the real crime is that the guy making your food has never once in his life washed his hands after taking a sh*t... no joke... I have employed several people in the food manufacturing industry from other countries and I kid you not, you could threaten the lives of their families and they're still not going to wash their hands after using the bathroom... they think it's funny... they've also been known to sh*t in the corner of a toilet stall instead of in the toilet itself... it's wonderful...
Gene363
12 years ago

that's not that bad... the real crime is that the guy making your food has never once in his life washed his hands after taking a sh*t... no joke... I have employed several people in the food manufacturing industry from other countries and I kid you not, you could threaten the lives of their families and they're still not going to wash their hands after using the bathroom... they think it's funny... they've also been known to sh*t in the corner of a toilet stall instead of in the toilet itself... it's wonderful...

opelmanta1900 wrote:



True, and there are people like that born and raised in the USA... even on among the ranks of professionals.

HockeyDad
12 years ago
TMCTLT
12 years ago

years ago, banks introduced ATMs claiming they would save money because they would eliminate the necessity of paying humans to do the same job. The inference was we'd all save on service fees.

Once established and accepted by customers, they started charging fees to use them, as if they were suddenly an expensive convenience they were offering us and just wanted to recoup the expense of these cost saving devices...can you say new revenue stream?

It is said you can't have it both ways, but they pulled it off. I don't go to Macs or any equivalent, but if I did I'd pass on using the automated ordering system. I am hardly against businesses making profits, but I will not support those that are determined to eliminate jobs while blaming greedy workers.

frankj1 wrote:





Exactly...=d>
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