You're gonna lose your jobs!

[An Haddock]

There are so many things you want to say but of course the customer would be offended. I wish you could say "What a mean thing to say" or "Why would you want me to lose my job?" or "How kind of you to wish bad things to happen to me."

Why would you want me to lose my job? Then I won't be able to take care of my handicapped twin brothers whose guardian I became when our parents died in a horrible freak sewer gas explosion!

[Air_Stewardess]

I'd ask them what job they do. Something office-y perhaps? "Oh bummer, I read a research article that concluded up to 80% of office jobs will be automated within a decade, that's if it's not been outsourced to India or Eastern Europe beforehand?"

[notalwaysright]

Funnily enough, I've never had anyone say I'll lose my job. Probably because these people are asking me questions, and wanting help. Now, I'm not saying that they couldn't have gotten these answers from Google, or that technology couldn't make my job obsolete. I think that most DIY questions are answered online, and most/all products of this nature are available online. I've even had people tell me how much cheaper things are on Amazon. I say "wow, that's a great deal!" If a person can't reason why an online giant like Amazon can sell things for cheaper than a smaller brick and mortar chain then I'm not going to try to explain it.

Until there is a better way to see the color and feel the texture of fabric, there will be physical fabric stores. Maybe the chain I work for will keep up with the times (we're starting buy online, pick up in store soon), maybe it won't and will follow other chains into bankruptcy. Who knows. I just know that until everyone stops wanting to talk to an actual human, my job is relatively safe. What customers probably don't know is that I LOOK FORWARD to the time I get out of customer service. If my job transitioned to just working in a giant warehouse, not talking to customers, it would be a positive change. So their threat is not very effective.

[Racket_Man]

YUP pizza and ordering/delivery will go 100% automated in 5 - 10 years

I came across this little article/interview with a Dice pizza executive on another board.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/16/domin...-ceo-says.html

sorry I believe this will NEVER happen. This means the SCs will be required to ACTUALLY go outside of their residences to get said pizza order via either a drone OR self-driving (no driver or human involved) vehicle. Stifferina who wants stuff OR believes that something was ordered but not on the order (meaning NEVER ordered), to the "Where is XYZ or ASB or GHI???????? !! elevendy eleven.

Hotels and most apartment buildings are going to be REAL FUN in an automated world.

PLUS add in the fact that self-driving vehicles will be beat upon or vandalized or "captured" NO franchise I know of has that kind of money to throw around.

Drones on the other hand are somewhat cheap even these days BUT and you should see this coming the modern day equivilant of Fox Hunting ( as seen in this recent Mountain Dew commercial here: Mountain Dew Drone Hunting. AND in the fact that all of the juvinille delinquets, both YOUNG AND OLD will be doing the same thing as in the commercial but just for the "fun of it" maybe with nets, or slingshots or paintball guns, or rocks, or other heavy objects or even real guns.

Wishful thinking on the pizza executives parts BUT not really applicable in the REAL world.

[Seanette]

You mention executives and the real world in the same sentence? Dreamer.

[Racket_Man]

You mention executives and the real world in the same sentence? Dreamer.

Yeah I know But one can only hope

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'd ask them what job they do. Something office-y perhaps? "Oh bummer, I read a research article that concluded up to 80% of office jobs will be automated within a decade, that's if it's not been outsourced to India or Eastern Europe beforehand?"

Or factory work.

"Gee, isn't that the company that's moving all its production to China so they can pay the workers slave wages, pollute to their heart's content, and still get tax breaks? Sorry to hear that."

[Argabarga]

Wishful thinking on the pizza executives parts BUT not really applicable in the REAL world.

Have a little mercy on him, he doesn't get outside into the real world much and doesn't realize what dicks most people are.

He's like my Dad the engineer, who doesn't understand that robot pizza delivery will just lead to people kicking over the robot and taking it's stuff.... because he thinks like an engineer and not a normal person "There's no logical reason to knock over the machine, so why would you?" Because vandalism isn't logical.

[Dreamstalker]

Yup. Look at what happened to HitchBot in Philly last year (I'm still hoping for a reboot of the experiment, but knowing people in general it would probably end the same way)

[mhkohne]

YUP pizza and ordering/delivery will go 100% automated in 5 - 10 years

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Wishful thinking on the pizza executives parts BUT not really applicable in the REAL world.

The fun part will be watching their heads explode when they realize that automated ordering + automated delivery + drones 'losing' orders = no one to blame because they took all the people out of the loop.

Of course the real gotcha on this (for the execs) is that if they DO manage to automate delivery, they'll have no more payroll at the low end to cut. So they'll have to find some OTHER way to make things look better than they are.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Have a little mercy on him, he doesn't get outside into the real world much and doesn't realize what dicks most people are.

He's like my Dad the engineer, who doesn't understand that robot pizza delivery will just lead to people kicking over the robot and taking it's stuff.... because he thinks like an engineer and not a normal person "There's no logical reason to knock over the machine, so why would you?" Because vandalism isn't logical.

And people are still going to be arseholes in the future, and want to not pay for stuff. XD

Adding in self checkout in the local supermarket actually created jobs rather than taking them away, cuz there always has to be a colleague standing there to a) babysit the customers who are completely clueless about how to use them, b) sort out the errors that the machines keep getting for no reason ("Unexpected item in the bagging area!") and c) make sure that customers do actually pay for their shopping rather than grabbing the bag and walking off.

[Dreamstalker]

True...I took over SCO at my old job because I had a brain and some tech skills. Attendants simply bypassing something that went wrong was/is a big part of people walking out with stuff.

I doubt robots can do grocery stocking in a non-warehouse setting. In addition to us needing to answer (in some cases decipher) customer questions, there are way too many variables, obstacles, etc. Although we do have a supervisor who may as well be a robot...she mainly delegates, and is similar to E in that if she doesn't give you a task it isn't important.

[No Coupons 4 You]

I always requested SCO because you really didn't interact with the customers except for the assholes who did not know what the fuck they were doing. I always said before you use SCO you have to pass a SCO test.

[EricKei]

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever

Wait...are you talking about SCO's, or SC's...?

[Becks]

I always requested SCO because you really didn't interact with the customers except for the assholes who did not know what the fuck they were doing.

I may "not know what the fuck" I'm doing, but I'm certainly NOT an asshole.
I hate being dragged to the SCO.