So it begins- Wendy's To Switch To Self Ordering and Automation To Avoid $15/hr Wage hike

[RajWatts]

Lol @ outrage over this. Technology makes jobs obsolete every day, b. Adapt with the times increase ya skill set and quit bytchin

 

[Robert California]

Another Wendy's thread

They gonna be like WaWa with the self-check out Kiosks

 

[Concerning VIolence]

For society to function, the lowest at the pyramid and the poor must be fed and kept secure, to prevent insurrection and chaos.

Poor people, the working class, are the building block of a society. If they are not well kept and can't survive, guess what's gonna happen?

No one who is smart would want anything like this to happen, unless you guys like riots. If you think millions unemployed or unable to survive because of automation is going to go over easy....

Costs of living goes up, everyone in debt, yet wages going nowhere... how dumb are you to not see the picture?

 

[Wild self]

What's gonna happen is people with only a secondary school diploma is gonna compete with people with liberal arts degrees for jobs at Burger King. How exciting.

IT and certs gonna take over by automation as well

 

[unit321]

Already replacing humans in restaurants in Asia.

Half of you gay mo's probably peeped to see if it had a robo-dikk.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Make a career out of flippin' burgers, fellas.

What's sad is for a lot of young black men, that's literally the only job available for them. Y'all nikkas in here cracking jokes but this is gonna disproportionately affect us more than any other group:

Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises

The findings reveal that while 13,200 Black young adults lost their jobs as a direct result of the recession nearly 40 percent more, a total of 18,500, were fired because of the rise in the federal minimum wage, raising the researchers’ question: “Why do black males suffer more harm from wage mandates than their white or Hispanic counterparts?”

A key reason is that many young Blacks hold tenuous, low-skilled positions in the nation’s eating and drinking businesses, such as fast food restaurants. The researchers report “that nearly one out of three Black young adults without a high school diploma works in the industry.”

 

[Neil Tyson]

You know how easy it is to obtain a high school diploma?

 

[Vandelay]

Until airlines and vehicles go automated. Truck companies already doing this. Planes already fly by computer.

Eventually its gonna be no pilots, maybe 1 per plane is shyt goes awry.

That's why you have to find something to do, that cant be recreated artificially. In these times, its basically man vs computer / robot. Im a bit older 37 next week. My son and stepson are 15, and my other son is 10. Trust im tryna explain this shyt, these lil retail jobs aint gonna be here. Gotta think global, or niche local (lil spots/events that cant be replicated).

Having worked for fortune 500s, having dozens of jobs, and now having side hustles jump off...This...mothafukking THIS!

Stop waiting for these CEO's to do Shyt for y'all...even if everyone from middle management and above cut their salary in half, it wouldn't pay for a 100% increase in salary for workers on the lowest rungs.

Tired of seeing people who haven't looked at a P&L sheet or the accounting books for major organizations, throw out arbitrary numbers as a way to solve for this problem.

Some people were right in this thread, automation was going to happen regardless...and it's going to happen to 90% of "today's" jobs out there in the next 50 years.

Here's the trade-off...corporations are buying out and outsourcing and automating everything they can...imagine the logistical nightmare this is for larger companies. Lots of companies are losing shytloads of money because they are trying to compensate for every taste, need, and service...and they aren't doing it well. You are going to see some companies collapse because of this.

Be entrepreneurial brehs and brehettes. Find something you are good at that no one else is doing and turn it into a business. Niching is the wave of the future.

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

I will never spend a dime there again then.

That Baconator tho....I will miss it....

 

[NZA]

normally right wing economists tell you creative destruction is a good thing for everybody, but then they use it as a threat when you talk about raises...

 

[ℒine ☈acks]

15 an hour aint a lot of money...7.25 an hour really aint shyt...the minimum wage needs to increase...wendy's survived the last increase and will survive another...they going to bring in automation anyway if it reduces cost to the customer() or increases profits with or without a 10+ dollar minimum wage...if only these minimum wage jobs were so easy people could double up on em and work 16hrs a day /80hrs a week...

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Boy, it's going to be hilarious when these white collar/middle class jobs get outsourced/automated.

"Bu bu bu but they can't replace us, we be smart and skilled."

A punjab named Rajeev is writing your replacement right now. And I have seen quite a few of you brag about how much money you make in comparison to how little work you do. Do you think corporations are okay with that? A lot of us are going to be in our 40s wondering what the fukk happened.

 

[agnosticlady]

What's sad is for a lot of young black men, that's literally the only job available for them. Y'all nikkas in here cracking jokes but this is gonna disproportionately affect us more than any other group:

Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises

Interesting....

 

[kevm3]

They were going to automate regardless of this wage hike, but this just gives some a nice way to implement it while blaming it on those 'greedy' fast food workers.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Non stem workers sure but STEM are set for the most part.

That's what you think.