I wonder when Bernie will speak up and tell Amazon that while $15.00 an hour is good, they only have to put in 4 hours of work out of 8 to get it.
So?
LOL! Metrics that directly feed an automated pink slip for a manager.
“Alexa, who do I fire today?”
Alexa: “Today, you are supposed to fire Jerry in Building D. His box loading performance is lower than most others.”
“Thank you, Alexa.”
Ain’t capitalism great?
Very commendable.
Hell on earth. Rule by robots.
Nice. Got machinery doing what a bonus program would do.
So. I don’t have a problem with this. With today’s work esthetics, people goof off more than they work. We have a monitoring system where I work and I see nothing wrong with it. If you are working, there is no problem. If you are not producing, you deserve to be fired. If everyone could be trusted to put in a fair day’s work, companies would not have to resort to this. It is the peoples’ own fault they have to work under these conditions.
Headline caught me by surprise. Thought this was something going on in South America/?
This isn’t news. I live in a small town with a fulfillment center.
Thing is, companies that move this sort of facility to small towns have to be a little careful. They can burn through the entire employable population of the town.
I used to work for a company that designed and implemented call centers in these third tier markets (low cost of living and low wages). They actually had to close down and move facilities because there was nobody left to employ that had not already been fired. And, on a related note, they found that if a condition of employment was drug testing, they would be hard pressed to find any employees at all.
I think this speaks to my own personal opinion that the warehouse staff will eventually be mostly replaced by robotics. I think we’ve all seen those videos. ;)
So the “robot overlords” description is not too far from the truth.
In a free and rational society, labor saving devices raise productivity of labor, which leads to increased average wage rates and standard of living of the average worker.There is no divine right of stagnation. Labor saving devices cause a change in the pattern of employment, but does not cause mass unemployment.
Hey robot, if you think you can do a better job then do it!
The left wanted a $15 hourly rate? this is the result.
I wish t’hell my local deli sandwich counter would do this...
I read that as; “Robots track, fire upon thousands...”
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