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To: Steely Tom
I’m told that one of the reasons they installed them is because they couldn’t find sandwich people who could read and write.

Back in the '90s I worked at a tobacco factory as a programmer. Some of my buddies, who programmed touch-screen terminals, said the company went this route for the same reason. A lot of their employees came from the hills in Kentucky.

170 posted on 12/13/2014 12:38:50 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Oatka

...And the automatic coin change at the register because recognizing and counting coins is a bridge to far for way too many of them.


171 posted on 12/13/2014 12:46:29 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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