Posted on 06/06/2018 2:50:08 PM PDT by Rummyfan
McRobots, UNIONIZE!
Already happening at Sam’s Club too. Now if they could just get the person to push their button and let you know your order is ready life would be better.
Automate the food prep and another job might get done right...
Unmentioned bonus: Robots can’t spit in your food.
Can someone explain the “table service” issue. Are kiosks delivering food????
Socialists have already moved on from $15 an hour to a guaranteed minimum income for doing nothing. McDonalds would be OK with that, their former employees can get a check from the government, point to what they want on a kiosk, and get their food, and McDonalds can be more profitable without their employees.
They'll just make the food a lot greasier.
I was reading a thread on sex robots and now Mc Robots.
I should have paid more attention when learning BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programing!.
I want to be a hacker!
Well, here’s the thing about the laws of economics. Abide by them, or suffer really nasty bites in the gluteus maximus, some of which shall never heal.
Stupidity is the only crime in the Universe that is invariably punished. If not immediately, then the consequences compound until there is no possible escape from the ultimate punishment, which is extinction.
LOL! It’s McDonald’s ... how can you tell?
Around here, most of the food purchased at the McDonalds comes at the drive-through. Out of a dozen people working behind the counter, maybe two are at registers. I think it is not that big a deal ... yet.
A “job”, is a task - either one-time, or continuous - that a business need to have done, and they will pay $X to have that job done, that’s what it’s worth to them.
It is NOT their business to make sure anyone has a “living wage”...they offer the job, tell folks what it pays, and accepting the job is up to the applicant.
If it’s not enough, then do like I did when I was young, get a SECOND job. It won’t kill you and you’ll end up with that “living wage” you seem to love so much.
Go back to school/training, and learn a trade that DOES pay your “living wage”.
It’s really a simple formula.
I have tried using the self order at McDonalds and it’s not user friendly. I gave up and I just order at the cash register.
Most robots use ladder logic not basic. However, if you can learn basic you can learn ladder logic programming.
But suggest here at FR that the same laws of economics which apply to jobs in a burger joint should apply to jobs in a steel mill, and watch the heads e*x*p*l*o*d*e!
To my my this is less about what’s being done than how fast. The automation would’ve occurred anyway, but without government screwing with labor costs, hiking them arbitrarily, the dislocation wouldn’t be as abrupt and painful.
the new ordering kiosks - I witnessed so many customers having so much trouble to order they had to have an employee assisting them constantly. The systems had serious useability problems.
Things as simple as a cup of water could not be found on the menu system (a health code issue/requirement no doubt).
I’ve tested software devices and machines professionally for decades - those systems I would grade a “D” (who the heck does McD have testing these things BEFORE they even go to customer use — low bid dimbulbs — both the sub-contractor AND the McD management for pushing these deficient things out.
Incompetent.
Yes, I applaud pushing off the work on to the customer. Make them collate the order or better yet scan in everything and bag it themselves! Now if we could only get the customers to stock the shelves and cook their own burgers and keep the place clean. Such a great idea! /sarc
Why is that?
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