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logistics.. its amazing that MORE luggage isn't lost on a daily basis. I traveled every week for 10 years, lost my bag maybe 4 times? usually around a holiday where the airports are burdened with extra people (and 75% of those lost bags were out of O'Hare... ) sure it seems simple take a bag put it in a tube, take it off the tube give it back to the person.. but man, probably 30 people touched that bag in that proces…
There's also significant fanout and sometimes very short layovers. One plane might have luggage that goes to five other planes. Also, the vehicles that transport the luggage are not airtight, so bags can fall out of them. This isn't to mention human error in the scanning process (forgetting to scan something, scanning a bag and then not moving it, etc.).
I once almost completely automated my job, and didn't hide it. The job was to load data files into the backend system. The problem was there there were almost as many formats (~80) as there were partners sending data (~120), not just in structure but in content (deltas, full replace, etc.). This job was burning people out every 6 months, and I was the hapless next victim who was just looking to break into a tech posi…
What your boss should have done is lower your working hours but keep the pay the same.
This story is a pretty accurate fable for the pointlessness of the modern economy and its inability to provide real value to anyone. Man spends all day playing video games, because he automated his largely superfluous job at a law firm which itself likely only exists to deal with bureaucratic or unnecessary cases (assuming this is true, as they have a single absent IT person who handles their entire infrastructure.)…
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You'd be surprised how often that isn't the outcome. It definitely does happen, but a lot of the time the company is left with a task that's now automated and an employee that's received a ton of training on the business systems. There are almost always other products that sales wants to push that there simply wasn't the bandwidth for before... There is always more business - sometimes companies choose to put automat…
The difference is whether you are automating a "profit center" or a "cost center". Automate a profit center, and you free up people to do more profitable stuff. Automate a cost center, and they can lay everybody off and cut costs. The whole notion of "cost-" and "profit centers" is a terrible construction of modern management theory. But it is how almost all businesses work nowadays. Never work in a cost center depar…
You can burn fossil fuels and cause damage through pollution and be applauded for being highly profitable.
Meanwhile people building sustainable energy or at least reducing the damage caused by pollution will be considered a drag and harshly criticized.
Ultimately the problem lies in the fact that we have built entire societies around the idea of exploiting externalities. You can't build a healthy society around such a thing and yet we keep doing and loving it.
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They're plainly against any work at all right now. If they shift towards better working conditions and pay, then great.
That subreddit's a mixed bag from what I remember. I think there's a core of "true" antiworkers that are genuinely against the idea of working (categorically? within capitalism?) in some deep philosophical sense, but I think most of the sub are people that are okay with the _idea_ of work but are very unhappy with current working conditions. I remember there being fights between them where the diehards would post stu…
After all, the anti work people are a drag on people who want to work. UBI doesn't pay itself unless it is funded from taxes on resources where it merely democratizes resources than actually provide an income.
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The harm done is that impressionable young people on /r/antiwork are given false hope in their dream of getting paid to do nothing so they can play more video games.
Ah, hackernews, the anti-antiwork. There are many things I come to HN for, but looking for a healthy work culture is not one of them.
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You sell the solution as a Windows app that includes a barcode scanner and a barcode on the receipt. You then have an application interface to an Access database or something.
And now you didn't automate your job, you sourced a vendor.
I once got a contract, early in my career, migrating marketing landing pages to a new format in which the contents of the pages (anything inside of the tag) were moved into `marketing_page_name.tmpl` files in a directory. From there they'd be pulled into a shell, and all kinds of tracking and link magic could happen from there. A few things like anchors needed new template variables instead of hard-coded links. I rea…