Replaced by the Machine

[Novacain]

I remember back in the day dialing '0' at a payphone and telling the operator that the phone swallowed my quarter and I could not make a call, just so I could place the call for free
But now I can't do that because the operator has been replaced by a machine...
How many other jobs can anyone think of that have been eliminated because of growing technology? Which ones do you think are on the way out?

[Xenops]

There's the machines at the grocery store where you can purchase and check yourself out. I prefer having a clerk do it for me.

[Novacain]

There's the machines at the grocery store where you can purchase and check yourself out. I prefer having a clerk do it for me.

It's sad but it seems as though the whole world is going self serve I can go grocery shopping and gas up without having to talk to a soul.

[Anime Girl]

What's wrong with tecnology? But i see what some of you mean. Actually, I just hope some machine can replace this one jerk that works in the drive through at Burger King where I live. He tried to cheat my mom out of 20 dollers!!!

[Novacain]

What's wrong with tecnology? But i see what some of you mean. Actually, I just hope some machine can replace this one jerk that works in the drive through at Burger King where I live. He tried to cheat my mom out of 20 dollers!!!

Oh, there is nothing wrong with technology! But I suppose I was focused on the negative aspects of it.... some jobs may be killed off but others may be born as well.

[Anime Girl]

[QUOTE=Anime Girl 14;122139]What's wrong with tecnology? But i see what some of you mean. Actually, I just hope some machine can replace this one jerk that works in the drive through at Burger King where I live. He tried to cheat my mom out of 20 dollers!!!

Oh, there is nothing wrong with technology! But I suppose I was focused on the negative aspects of it.... some jobs may be killed off but others may be born as well.[/QUOTE]

Either way, I'd like a machine to replace that scumbag at Burger King! He deserves to be fired. Sorry, off topic.

[Fauna]

My parents used to both work at a TV station...my mother was a video editor, and my father loaded tapes for commercials and pre-recorded broadcasts. Except in 1995 or so, he and a few of his friends wound up losing their jobs after an automatic tape-loading machine was brought into the studio.

(On a brighter story, some of the tapes my father had to handle contained the 1980 Astro Boy series, with its special Canadian dub!)

And I like those automatic check-outs too, except when you jostle the bag or something and it locks up. "Please wait for assistance" makes us cringe every time.

[Novacain]

Either way, I'd like a machine to replace that scumbag at Burger King! He deserves to be fired. Sorry, off topic.

Maybe he just can't count and didn't mean to be such a clown, but if that is the case then a machine would be more efficient in his place!

[Novacain]

And I like those automatic check-outs too, except when you jostle the bag or something and it locks up. "Please wait for assistance" makes us cringe every time.

Yup, I agree. Sometimes there is a rainbow of colorful words coming out of my mouth when that happens.

[AprilSeven]

WOW - my whole career has been a race to survive technology diminishing what I do for a living. When I first worked at a print shop, they still actually had a Linotype machine (a strange looking contraption that used molten lead to form letters/words). Then it was "compugraphic" typesetting machines, then the Macintosh came along and desktop publishing, and suddenly everyone who was a graphic artist, by trade, were being replaced by people with no experience, but enough money to buy a computer and software.

It's very traumatizing. I now earn my living on the computer, but don't make nearly as much as I did 25 years ago! Bigger problem though, is the so-called "free trade" and so many jobs being shipped out of our country to places where people work for a fraction of our pay. That's a bigger threat than technology.