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McDonalds Employees Make Further Push to Automate Their Jobs
WorkersCompensation ^ | March 18, 2015 | Robert Wilson

Posted on 04/11/2015 2:08:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 04/11/2015 2:08:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Plus I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that no humans were harmed during the making of my lunch.

He also isn't going to have the raw animal pleasure of watching the youtube of the freakfest pissin on his burger and laughing at him either. Picked my tagline for a reason. Found myself sayin that to myself more and more often.

I saw a video of a machine in italy that makes a pizza pie in 3 mins for a couple bucks with no human hand touching it. Fresh crust custom made from flour.

Jap have created a robot that picks only the most perfectly ripened strawberries. Those yokels in the fast food joints better find another job quick because the one they have now is goin the way of the dino.

$15/hr. ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLMAO!!!

2 posted on 04/11/2015 2:33:22 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica ("The freaks are gonna inherit the Earth! - HoA")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where is the “spit in your burger” button? You know - for that fat white racist who makes the mistake of actually ordering something there?


3 posted on 04/11/2015 2:51:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

I would make a guess that by 2025...a hundred McDonalds will be in operation around the country with a shift of three people (shift lead, a technical guy, and maybe one single clerk to handle older folks who aren’t into automation purchases). By 2035...the bulk of McDonalds operations within the US will be the same.

Not to discourage people...but if you are born in the next five years...you will likely never get an opportunity to work at McDonalds at age twenty-five. The french-fry job....the burger flipper....the clerk at the front who hooks up the soda machines each morning? These jobs will be obsolete within two decades.

The curious thing will be those folks who are twenty years old today and trying to survive in the coming era where they have worthless skills that won’t fit into any dynamic. Maybe Hardees and Wendy’s will be a decade behind McDonalds but it’s a dying profession.


4 posted on 04/11/2015 2:53:57 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The phrase, “Untouched by human hands,” comes to mind.


5 posted on 04/11/2015 3:16:41 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Butter was the go-to ointment in my childhood.


6 posted on 04/11/2015 3:26:33 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Gaffer

Thier ultimate goal is to be put out on unemployment so they can sit home and collect


7 posted on 04/11/2015 3:33:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just last week, at a Popeyes chicken in the Atlanta airport, I placed my order and paid from an electronic touchscreen machine. No clerk needed in the ordering process.

Step 1


8 posted on 04/11/2015 3:34:42 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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Pizza pronto! Vending machine that rustles up a fresh pie in just THREE minutes...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3189482/posts

Watch This Vending Machine Make Pizza
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3159855/posts


9 posted on 04/11/2015 3:37:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

I tried that at a Wawa and thought it was great. There will be a problem with people who change their minds.


10 posted on 04/11/2015 3:37:33 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: ronnie raygun

When the tyrants finally do get enough of them on the entitlements that enslave them and they have taken all the real workers’ money - nationalized every facet of industry, the final determination will be made that they don’t need to pander to them, let them sit idle just for their vote.

That’s when they’re given a place to live, what to do, what to think and where they have to go work for the “order.” If they won’t do it they will die.


11 posted on 04/11/2015 3:40:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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"That’s when they’re given a place to live, what to do, what to think and where they have to go work for the “order.” If they won’t do it they will die."

Soylent Green.

12 posted on 04/11/2015 3:54:06 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doing themselves out of jobs Americans don’t want to do.


13 posted on 04/11/2015 3:59:45 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pussies. I worked as a cook in a catering facility I got so many first and second degree burns that they ceased being something that I even noticed. I once left four patches of sizzling skin from each of the fingers of my right on the raised door of a commercial Broiler. Their bitching themselves out of their job.


14 posted on 04/11/2015 4:18:01 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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The SEIU has been attempting to unionize fast food workers, and as part of a broader effort, trying to get independent franchisees declared as "joint employers" so as to facilitate that process and gain access to the much deeper pockets of the franchisors.

Well, that's a hail mary pass if I ever saw one...

Legally...I don't see how that would ever happen, but of course we are not in "normal" times...

Like living in a bad Ayn Rand novel...

The SEIU petition if found by the courts legally sound, would mean the end of the fast food industry as we know it...

All fast food companies would buy back all their franchises at some time..

15 posted on 04/11/2015 4:26:08 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Many will miss the raucous ghetto speech of the burgerers arguing with each other and with the customers


16 posted on 04/11/2015 4:54:35 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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They can all work for the government. Watch TV and drink beer for EBT and rent subsidy and medical care and...


17 posted on 04/11/2015 4:56:42 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: Born to Conserve

I remember that. And my mom would wrap up a bad burn with a silver dime or a quarter.


18 posted on 04/11/2015 4:58:26 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: Born to Conserve

Even IF the woman in the article “severely burned her arm”
Even IF this was true - she was not ablaze - she probably only
burned a small part of her arm, so.....

why the need for a freaking AMBULANCE? That burn was not a life threatening injury - drive or get someone to drive you!!! She tied up a paramedic/EMT team and an ambulance for no reason. Let’s hope a heart attack victim wasn’t left waiting.

When I fell at work - my coworkers wanted to call an ambulance - I said “NO WAY”. Although I did concede to an
ambulance when I could not get off the floor - I fractured
a vertebra. I went by ambulance (the worst 10 minutes of my life). A small burn is no reason for an ambulance!


19 posted on 04/11/2015 5:02:51 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: Popman

If they succeed in unionizing fast food they will have a union with no members but they will be able to get wages and benefits up to the level of that of auto workers or even higher. Or maybe there will have to be two $40/hour employees in each McD’s whose job is to stand around in spiffy uniforms pointing at the equipment between their 15 minute hourly breaks.


20 posted on 04/11/2015 5:04:49 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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