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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But now I can't do that because the operator has been replaced by a machine...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?

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.

"Xenops" wrote: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.

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!!!

"Anime Girl 14" wrote: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.

"Novacain" wrote:[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.

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.

"Anime Girl 14" wrote: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!

"Fauna" wrote: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.

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.