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Oh, please! This has nothing to do with politics or the Republican's tax cuts. It has to do with technology and responding to customers needs and shopping habits. People don't want to wait in long lines. They want to do their shopping and check out. That's one reason whey online shopping is so popular. No driving, and no checkout line. Shop from the comfort of home and have your purchases delivered.
I thought you Leftists liked "progress?"
By the way, did you notice that AT&T is giving big bonuses to employees and pay raises since the tax cut plan passed? Not the bleak scenario the Left was predicting.
By the way, ATT is in the midst of a longer term initiative to cut about one- third of its workforce, over time.
ATT relies heavily on overseas contracts for cutting edge technology rather than FTE based in the US. As it relates to organized labor, ATT lives with the constant threat of strikes. All non union employees are expected to deploy to distant locations to perform functions of striking employees, regardless of physical ability or training. Business Recovery operations is big business within ATT's business.
If you are in the minority, get used to it. None of this has anything to do with tax cuts BTW. To link the two things together like you are trying to do is wrong.
Agreed. Walmart's intention to eliminate the checkout experience has nothing to do with tax cuts.
Agreed. Walmart's intention to eliminate the checkout experience has nothing to do with tax cuts.
You're silly to think it's just Walmart. Plenty of retailers and restaurants are jumping on the automation bandwagon.
It's called progress. Technological advances have been eliminating jobs since the beginning of time.
And you can sit there and cry about it or adjust and adapt to the changing environment.
overall..unemployment is 4%. That means there are jobs out there for people.
Yet the labor participation rate continues to decline. Why is this?
This was forecasted in 2000 and yet haters blamed Obama. Trump campaigned on touting the rigged employment numbers. Yet here he is taking credit, ignoring labor participation rates and using the same methodologies.
Some day, maybe within a few years we'll all be saying, "remember when there used to be cashiers in stores?".
Remember when there were armies of bank tellers, typing pools, print operation producing millions of hard copy daily newspapers, travel agents, airline ticket agents, back offices of brokerage and banks, cash registers instead of enabled phones, paper tax returns and factory workers?
I could easily fill a page with job functions that are nearly or actually obsolete in my lifetime.
Increased productivity disengaged from increased employment decades ago.
Lived there twice. It was quaint and deeply appreciated in bad weather.
Attendents at some stations also routinely cleaned your windows while gas was being pumped.
Don't know if that's still the case.
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This has nothing to do with politics or the Republican's tax cuts. It has to do with technology and responding to customers needs and shopping habits. People don't want to wait in long lines. They want to do their shopping and check out. That's one reason whey online shopping is so popular. No driving, and no checkout line. Shop from the comfort of home and have your purchases delivered.
