McDonald’s replace humans with swipe cards and touch screens - Polidicks

Maybe now mcdonald's will get my damn order right for once

Think of how much more obese we could become with this faster form of already fast food! Obesity will reach new limits, people will have fat on their fat! Exactly what we needed, thank you McDonalds!

i can't wait for this to happen in the UK (even though it probably never will) whenever i'm stoned and i have to repeat the same thing 50 times because the person working on the till doesnt speak english always makes me feel like i'm being rude.

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33056587]This is what's cool about being in Computer Science. I get the job of automating other peoples' jobs. That's job security.[/QUOTE]Jokes on you when they make self-maintaining maintenance robots.

I don't get how cashiers with super deep growly voice gets to be a cashier at all. I can barely hear them clearly

Excellent! If I ever find these vendors, I'll smear suspicious and smelly substances on the "Accept/Order" buttons so people can't place their orders! :3

This won't kill of jobs, they'll still need people to cook the food. It will also create jobs in regards to people being needed to maintain the machines.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;33058810]This won't kill of jobs, they'll still need people to cook the food. It will also create jobs in regards to people being needed to maintain the machines.[/QUOTE] Cashiers and other desk managers will lose their jobs, what are you even talking about And machine maintenance isn't a steady job, it's getting a call every month if you're LUCKY, to drive to McDonalds and fix the machine. This will make people lose their jobs, you can't ignore that.

When there are no more jobs available because robots are doing all of them, we're going to have to come up with some sort of wealth distribution system.

Considering most people can't even figure how to run the automated registers at fucking Walmart (ie, scan your items, put in bag, pay for it) I can see this messing up badly. Although, you know where this would be REALLY convenient? The drive-thru. That's normally when you want to get in and go quickly. And nobody loses their job, since there still is someone that has to give you your food. However, the first point still stands.

[QUOTE=Kopimi;33058931]Cashiers and other desk managers will lose their jobs, what are you even talking about And machine maintenance isn't a steady job, it's getting a call every month if you're LUCKY, to drive to McDonalds and fix the machine. This will make people lose their jobs, you can't ignore that.[/QUOTE] Of course, it's foolish to think this won't cost jobs. With that said technological advancement is inevitable and it doesn't care whose job it takes along the way. If a business owner is presented with a choice between two options. On one hand he has over 10 cashiers that need training, benefits, wages, raises, and has to worry about them all being reliable (showing up to work and doing the job properly) and trustworthy (not stealing from the company). On the other hand there is a one time purchase of a few machines to do the same job. The machines need no training, benefits, wages, raises, they don't call out sick and they don't steal from the cash register. They mindlessly do their tasks 24/7 without question and need no breaks and no vacation time. The choice to a business owner is obvious. [QUOTE=Demache;33060259]Considering most people can't even figure how to run the automated registers at fucking Walmart (ie, scan your items, put in bag, pay for it) I can see this messing up badly. Although, you know where this would be REALLY convenient? The drive-thru. That's normally when you want to get in and go quickly. And nobody loses their job, since there still is someone that has to give you your food. However, the first point still stands.[/QUOTE] Of course we're in a transition period where a lot of older people don't understand technology because they didn't grow up with this stuff. This will likely fade away over a few generations as people grow up with more technology in their lives. It's also not hard to imagine the drive thru being automated either, among many other blue collar jobs. You can see the US post office is the latest victim of technology as email has taken over. We can't say "well we should just send paper letters that take days to arrive just so postal workers can keep their jobs" rather than use instant electronic communication, to do so would be nonsensical. Instead of trying to fight change we need to find ways to adapt to it. How we're going to do that, I don't have any idea

[QUOTE=Penis Colada;30058454]in my experience mcdonald's cashiers are retards[/QUOTE] There was a McDonalds here with a hot girl as a cashier. I mean actual hot girl. And then she started talking to a coworker about some stimulus plan somewhere, and smart-sounding stuff about investment rates and why some politician wherever she was talking about had the wrong idea. What the living hell was she doing working at McDonalds?

[QUOTE=Demolitions2;30057996]Then it comes to America. Suddenly 1000's of hispanics are without a job. they say it will create new jobs, but thats a load of shit.[/QUOTE] It'll create about 1000 jobs to the market, although it'll close down 100% more guaranteed.