Posted on 04/20/2011 6:46:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I thought that is where we are now???
100 years ago over half of the workforce was engaged in agriculture, now it’s less than 1%.
How many hours a week will these new hires be able to work? After all the publicity over this settles down, how many will be laid off? Will McD’s have to raise their prices to accommodate for these new hires and if so how many customers will opt for the competition’s dollar burger?
This was all a publicity stunt that will soon backfire on McD’s.
At least the ROBO-Mac Servers will actually speak English.
It's also hard to see a solution, since the only one involves going to politically entrenched interests and speaking the truth that "Jobs will be created when you give up some of your power." As long as those who believe in a command-and-control economy remain ascendant, I expect no significant job growth in the US - just a few spurts here and there in industries that aren't as heavily regulated...yet.
They are probably working on establishing an Apple Technology Czar position right now, complete with mandates for the company to supply ten million free iPads a year to inner-city schools.
RE: At least the ROBO-Mac Servers will actually speak English.
Well, that’s bad news even for burger flippers then.
I had read somewhere (possibly here) that this was so they could dump more of their full-time workers, since part-timers don’t get benefits. By hiring enough part-timers to fill all shifts, they end up saving on benefit and healthcare costs. Also, part-timers get lower salaries, so the net outlay for salary costs probably drops too.
The only way Americans will get burger flipper jobs and other low wage jobs is to boot out millions of illegal aliens which should have been done ages ago.
If you see an Hispanic crew working at McDondalds you won’t get a job there. Or if you do.... you will be knifed because you being hired meant some else’s cousin did not
There was a McDonalds near me that had robotic fry makers and burger makers. It was staffed mostly by handicapped people who really only bagged the stuff, took the money, made change, and cleaned. Not sure if it is still that way as I do not eat there.
Ouch! Jimmy Carter didn’t even get treatment this rough.
I don’t see any reason why the whole process couldn’t be automated, the customer enters his order and the whole order can be done on an assembly line.
Look at the bright side: For the moment, we’re still in a “McJobs” style downturn. Americans will soon look back wistfully on the days when McJobs were plentiful and they could find burger-flipping jobs, or at least that’s our future if Obama stays in office much longer.
Paraphrasing what is going around.
A public employee union member, a CEO and a tea party guy are sitting looking at a dozen jobs opened up in the economy. The CEO grabs 11 jobs and exports them and says to the tea party guy ‘watch out for that union guy, he wants to get ahead of you in the McJob line’.
People want a COMPETENT PERSON taking care of them, not many of those at Fast Food places, certainly not at the wages the restaurants are paying them.
Also what people really want is somebody to bitch to if things go wrong....so you can have just one person there that’s the designated fall guy that people can complain to when things go wrong.
At least the ROBO-Mac Servers will actually speak English.
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Or you will be able to understand the English that they are speaking to you.
” SUV’s “
What’s wrong with SUVs? You some kind of liberal? those “EEEEEVIIILLLL SUVS!”? is that it?
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