Posted on 02/02/2018 11:49:41 AM PST by Cecily
“Walmart is already testing robots. It won’t be long until there are very few employees in retail stores.”
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Don’t think so, they can’t be programmed to handle the unexpected. The only thing they can do is stop and signal for someone with an actual brain to handle the situation.
Turning Whole Foods into a socialist worker’s paradise. They should be bursting with pride in their Che Guevara T-shirts.
You nailed it. I am very familiar with Amazon.
Maybe the Whole Foods gang should move over to Publix.
https://clark.com/shopping-retail/surprises-you-probably-didnt-know-about-publix/
Anyone surprised the typical Whole Foods store employee can’t handle much in the way of stress?
Sounds like Whole Foods is where the not-ready-for-prime-time people are employed.
But Robots can handle the very routine non customer interactive jobs and here are plenty of those such as cleaning floors and stocking shelves, taking inventory etc
In the case of robots interacting with people, even that in many instances can work with very minimal human oversight. For instance robots can direct and even lead customers to products, check them out (no cashier’s).
One human supervisor can handle 10 or more robots and that is a Conservative number.
Amazon recently poached a lot of Type-A legal talent from my company.
The ones that I knew from that group have no problem answering their phones almost 24/7.
“But Robots can handle the very routine non customer interactive jobs and here are plenty of those such as cleaning floors”
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Robot’s going along, all it’s programmed to do is wipe the floor a certain way,
It comes to a spot where the roof above has a hole and water is forming a puddle. It goes on it’s merry way, having done it’s job, as the water ruins the stock.
And you don’t even get the satisfaction of firing it.
Democrats ... once the party of slavery, always the party of slavery........Now the Party of enslavement.
Actually I believe in the instance you described the programming would call for a notification being sent to a supervisor. Programming a robot to alert when unusual circumstances are encountered is easy enough to do.
Actually I believe in the instance you described the programming would call for a notification being sent to a supervisor. Programming a robot to alert when unusual circumstances are encountered is easy enough to do.
“Programming a robot to alert when unusual circumstances are encountered is easy enough to do.”
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That doesn’t help much, because ‘unexpected’ means ‘unexpected’. You can’t write a conditional if-then statement for ‘X’, as it’s undefined by it’s very nature.
I bet Westworld figured they had all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed - think of it - Yul Brenner running amok in a Whole Foods store!
...on second thought, that’d actually make a great movie!
From what I've seen of Walmart managers, the robot will be the brains.
At the late Digital Equipment Corp., I was assigned to Six Sigma... the immensely corrupt and dishonest plan wherein you become so efficient that only three mistakes are tolerated out of one million operations. It was a soul-draining exercise in futility that simply drove people out of their minds while basically stopping all work. DEC started as a smart, innovative powerhouse and degenerated into hundreds of petty fiefdoms as the company collapsed.
“From what I’ve seen of Walmart managers, the robot will be the brains.”
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Heh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34
Love it! :-D
No, Amazon goes beyond simply making people work hard.
It is a crappy, crappy culture run by a monster of a hypocrite.
Snowflakes working for control freaks.
What could possibly go wrong?
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