Posted on 08/14/2015 6:47:12 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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There is an Amazon fulfillment center in my town. They are on a hiring spree and they can’t find enough people. the place is a sweatshop and they are quickly burning through the entire population of employable people.
Animation is their only hope in the long run.
Cool!
Great typo! Let’s put Mickey Mouse to work....
That must be for virtual products. :-D
Yup. This type of job is pretty much the perfect job for automation over humans. The job requires no critical thinking or decision-making, as the sole task is essentially “take X item from Y shelf and deposit it in Z bin.” Considering that machines are more accurate, faster, and don’t get tired, automation is a no-brainer.
Animation? Are they hiring Pixar workers? ;-/
Necromancy, for when the workers drop.
I’m through with Amazon because they stopped selling the Confederate flag. When the primary distributor of what we read, watch and listen to decided to be a censor, I realized I can no longer trust them as to what’s offered.
Who will watch the watchers?
There is one here and heard similar.
They are opening a fulfillment center in my hometown, Carteret, NJ. 500+ positions available.
While businesses should have the freedom to automate, this does point towards serious structural problems with labor laws, regulations, healthcare laws, tax laws, and minimum wage laws. Seems to me that governement makes it so expensive for businesses to employ people that automation becomes feasible.
BFL
Well production does not require anywhere near as many people as it used to - but consumption sure does. Robots don’t buy much, even on Amazon. :)
No strikes.
No $15/hour minimum wage.
The future of McDonalds.
Of course the merchandise is made in China and Mexico and eventually people won’t be able to afford it when they don’t have work.
I worked in manufacturing and automation for 22 years. Now I teach in high school; this is perfect for students to get motivated: LEARN engineering, programming, high skill maintenance.
Robots need to be designed, built, programmed and maintained - all good jobs.
Money goes where money grows......always.
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