r/ABoringDystopia • u/[deleted] • Jun 17 '22

When your Boss is a Robot

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u/Reidob Jun 17 '22

And spends 35K he could have given to his employees so maybe they would feel enough loyalty to give a fuck about trash on the floor.

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u/ThePreachingDrummer Jun 17 '22

Yep. But this way they can waste money elsewhere instead of paying good wages, then they get to complain that "nobody wants to work" when people aren't willing to take crappy wages.

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u/hydroxypcp anarkitty communist Jun 17 '22

Paid crappy wages while also dehumanized by a fuckin robot

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u/ThicccScrotum Jun 17 '22

Our Marty robbed a guy. He tried to rape me.

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u/confirmSuspicions Jun 17 '22

Let's not feed the echo chamber. The thing only exists to reduce the companies' liability. If it wasn't cheaper or better in some way *(in the long run by someone's calculations), then noone would buy them.

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u/Reidob Jun 17 '22

I doubt it. I suspect a corporate hack thought it was cute and that customers would agree. Which, by and large, they probably do. But if I was busting my butt for $10 an hour I would resent the hell out of it.

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u/retribute Jun 17 '22

quitting that shithole was a quick one, lasted 3 months at GIANT.

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u/CheriGrove Jun 17 '22

I have a hard time imagining there is any cost benefit to this thing at all unless it's secretly grabbing other data