Apr 22
So I open up an industry magazine today and I see this. I have no words. 😳
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· Apr 23
Meh.. My job is safe. I'd like to see a robot strip three head bolts before lunchtime.
· Apr 23
@ShawnG Once again, we need that laughing upvote. 😂
· Apr 23
@ShawnG Yeah, I’m not too concerned either. After all, we have one of those stupid robot vacuum cleaners and the thing can’t do one lap of a room without getting stuck on the edge of a rug. Then there was the time that it got into a vicious turf war with a broom that was leaning against the wall. Swear to god, it happened.
· Apr 23
@Hupp31
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Yup, I'll start worrying when my printer and my computer can communicate reliably.
· Apr 23
Its gonna be a strange new world. But I would think your business would be near the end of AI/Robot automation.
· Apr 23
@alsancle I don’t even understand how it could be implemented practically in a refinishing situation. There are just too many variables. But there are days when I wish I could replace my employees with robots. 😀
· Apr 23
We can see if I'm wrong about this, but any skilled job that relies on your hands will be the last to go. The cut and paste desk jobs will be the first. We go through these transitions every 25-50 years and it can be horrible if you are older and on the wrong side of them. Old people are not idiots, they just get sick of learning new things after 60 or 70 years.
· Apr 23
@alsancle
My friend who is 10 years older than me is a draftsman, He says the company keeps him on because he's about the only guy left who learned with a drafting table, pencils and paper.
Apparently they keep him on to fix all the other guys mistakes (the kids as he calls them).
· Apr 24
@ShawnG yep. As early as the late 80s the State of CT was already in trouble with programmers retiring who supported aging systems. Some went back as consultant$...
· Apr 24
@SteveMackCT You know the motto of consultants, don’t you? If you can’t be part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
· Apr 24
@SteveMackCT
Ha. Another guy I know who had been at his company for a long time, through a bunch of ownership changes and whatnot was having to do a "performance review" where you pretty much re-apply for your own job.
The HR person said "We noticed that you're not trained on the software we're using."
He replied "I WROTE the software we're using".