• Cyrus Draegur
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    719 days ago

    Nah fuck that, the machines are scabs, I want someone to earn a paycheck for work.

    • @Demdaru@lemmy.world
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      1119 days ago

      Nah fuck that ain’t having time to hang around the whole checkout lane bullshit just to luddite around.

    • @yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      All that’s going to do is pull employees from other areas of the store when it gets busy and the rest of the time they will have like 2 cashiers. Even if they did switch back to registers they won’t hire a significant amount of people.

      When I worked at Walmart I absolutely hated being sent up to the register. I hated talking to customers and I didn’t like that it took me away from finishing my job and my manager would argue with me about why my area wasn’t done when they sent me up to the register for 6 hours and therefore did not have the time to finish my work.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      -118 days ago

      Then you will pay higher prices.

      I load garden shit at Lowe’s. Sometimes we get blown out and people bitch for faster service. OK. We can always hire more people, any given business’ top expense. Then we charge more. Then the customer bitches about prices and goes to Home Depot. Where they don’t have as much staff. Rinse and repeat.

      • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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        318 days ago

        Banks had no problem slapping a “Teller transaction” fee on withdrawals when ATMs became ubiquitous, to encourage people to use the ATM for free.

        • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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          116 days ago

          That fee is outside my experience. Was that a short-lived thing? Never heard of it, certainly never saw it or heard anyone complain. Weird.

          ATMs are not cost free. They’re not merely a kiosk. You have to pay armed men to load/unload them. And not any dude with a pistol will do. I imagine the background check is damned exclusionary.

          And then there’s the networking, video and storage, upkeep and updates, all that, it goes on. But of course that still tallies a lower cost than a human, or they wouldn’t do it!

      • Cyrus Draegur
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        118 days ago

        I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less to pay more to compensate actual human beings doing actual work and I’m not kidding.