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Smile, or I'll smack you silly!
At what age does a vampire become a crazy old bat? :[
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Good grief; our store got SCOs months ago and no one has lost a job. If anything, we're begging people to come to work when they should because we need them. Not only that, but I'm very part time now and needing time off. I asked a supervisor just Saturday if he knew of any cashiers that needed hours desperately because I could give them away, and he said no, most of them were close to full time and didn't need extra hours.
Quoth Jay 2K Winger View PostBut that line is right up there with "Get a real job!" as one of those lines that, just... oh damn, there goes my eye twitch again.Last edited by Food Lady; 01-25-2017, 04:15 AM."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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"Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit
"Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77
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Quoth Lace Neil Singer View PostThe paperwork, like delivery certificates, doesn't do itself, and we don't have a posse of helpful elves to stock the shop, sign for deliveries, answer the phone, order stuff etc.Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
~ Mr Hero
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Quoth WishfulSpirit View Post"I can't wait to start collecting unemployment!" Wonder how they'd react to that?
Quoth Lace Neil Singer View PostPretty much, yeah. Especially at supermarket petrol stations, where the fuel is cheaper than at branded ones.
Quoth Sparklyturtle View PostI also heard things that were so completely wrong it was laughable, like women with prostate cancer (women don't have prostates) or men with ovarian cysts (men don't have ovaries.) Voice recognition doesn't catch things like that. Voice recognition also doesn't catch things like wildly inaccurate lab reports or other types of inaccuracies (I once transcribed a report on a 202-year-old man, if I could believe his date of birth. He was actually 102, which is still very impressive but a lot more likely.)
Quoth Racket_Man View PostYUP pizza and ordering/delivery will go 100% automated in 5 - 10 years
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sorry I believe this will NEVER happen. This means the SCs will be required to ACTUALLY go outside of their residences to get said pizza order via either a drone OR self-driving (no driver or human involved) vehicle. Stifferina who wants stuff OR believes that something was ordered but not on the order (meaning NEVER ordered), to the "Where is XYZ or ASB or GHI???????? !! elevendy eleven.
Hotels and most apartment buildings are going to be REAL FUN in an automated world.Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
~ Mr Hero
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Quoth Pixelated View PostIt's like spellcheck ... people seem to think it's some kind of awesome infallible solution to their own spelling problems. It's not, of course, because if it sees "They were going two the train station" it zips merrily past it ... because "two" is a word. The fact that it's the wrong word is not something spellcheck can catch yet (AFAIK, anyway. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. )"I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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We'll need to invent an automated SC that can complain to the automated delivery robot that the order is wrong, so the delivery bot can point out that it is not, and the two can then stalemate until someone's battery runs out... freeing us all up to do more important things!
Win win!- They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.
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Quoth Ironclad Alibi View PostWell, since you asked. MS Word does have a grammar checker along with its spelling checker. However, it did not pick up on the above mistake.Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
~ Mr Hero
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~$50k it took to get where I am. You know what I get hit with? Drones. "Soon the jets will fly themselves."
Yeah, please keep telling everyone that. No wonder guys with my skillset are in demand so much. The training is sticker-shock expensive. Starting pay at your first flying job (in a sophisticated aircraft carrying passengers) is almost as good as flipping burgers at a fast food joint. There are crew rest regulations, so crash pads, sleeping in crew lounges, and "checking the overhead panel" is (still) a thing. It's NOT a meritocracy, so just because you are a good pilot, there are dozens of other guys ahead of you who have been building their seniority and you still have to deal occasionally with Captain Incompetent (y'know, the guy who couldn't jump and land it without rolling an ankle if the wind is other than calm) who thinks he is God's own gift to aviation.
Please, keep telling everyone that the front seats of airliners are going to be filled by a robot that has zero self-preservation instinct and zero fucks given about the fleshy, squishy humans sitting behind it by the hundreds. Maybe the technology industry will actually make an AI that could fly a plane. And then it could be smart enough to make an even better version of itself without our help.
I say all this jokingly, but my truest fear is that within our lifetimes we will see so much of the workforce replaced with automation that the economy simply can't support a human population of 7.5 billion people.O God, thy sky is so vast and my plane is so small.
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Quoth Swordsman422 View Post~$50k it took to get where I am. You know what I get hit with? Drones. "Soon the jets will fly themselves.".
Tell them when Tesla makes a car that can drive from L.A. to New York with no human intervention, including stop-and-go rush hour, and after the customer rides in such a vehicle with a 5000-lb bomb that will detonate if the car goes off-road or hits anything, then you'd only be a couple of decades away from self-flying planes...“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers
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I've heard of the concept of pilot-less planes. You wouldn't get me on one for any amount of money. There's an excellent story in Isaac Asimov's "robot" stories (title of the story is Risk) in which Dr. Susan Calvin sends a young engineer (I think) into a malfunctioning spaceship, which was to have been piloted through hyperspace and back by a robot. The ship hasn't gone anywhere, and the robot is basically frozen in place (it can't move until it's been to wherever it was going and has come back). Anything could go wrong at any moment.
The end line of the story was: humans can think outside the box. Computers and robots can't. So "find out what's wrong" or "figure out what's wrong" is not an order you can give a computer (or a robot). I've watched a lot of the "Air Crash Investigations" episodes and the number of times a pilot has pulled a rabbit out of the hat, so to speak, is amazing. Let me know when you've got a computer than can do that and I'll consider getting on that plane.
Quoth Aria View PostAnd I can see this working out only one of two ways...
1 - We have to completely revamp our current system into something completely different.
2 - Bloody revolution.
I'm afraid I think 2 is more likely. :P
Not looking to start any fratching on the subject, by the way; I just mention it as an idea that is being tossed around in a few places.Last edited by Pixelated; 02-04-2017, 03:34 AM.Customer service: More efficient than a Dementor's kiss
~ Mr Hero
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