Not really. You seem to stalk my posts but never have anything intelligent to say about them. I assume your mad because you chose to remain in an entry level job your entire career. For some people it’s just the best they can do.
Truck drivers aren’t the brightest folk.
Nice twist ending, I expected a screed about Indian immigrants.
Saw a segment tonight on "60 Minutes" about autonomous trucks. One company developing them said they expected to be completely operational by 2021. One of these trucks can drive coast to coast in half the time a human can. No breaks, no sleeping, no accidents due to sleepiness, texting, other distractions. The computer makes about 20 decisions a second and can react to situations much faster than a human. I can only imagine how FedEx and UPS must be chomping at the bit to buy these. Teamsters guy said it'll eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs.
You still think that's not coming? "60 Minutes" had a segment tonight on autonomous semis that will be on the road and operational by 2021. Teamsters rep said they'll lose hundreds of thousands of jobs. I suppose you'll say there will be plenty of high paying new jobs to take their place, there always is. Yang was predicting a third of jobs lost by 2030, half of all current jobs lost by 2050. Including a lot of white collar jobs. A little premature to be calling me Chicken Little. If FedEx and UPS can make drones work they will. What you should take away from that is they're looking at technology that will save them money by eliminating couriers. Whatever they can come up with will be acted on eventually. As will many other companies. Can't wait until you're told that the new AI can do your job better than you can, sorry. At that moment the word VANTEXAN will flash through your brain.
Funny thing is when you get a crazed highway sniper like the UPS guy just arrested in Oregon, he'll be shooting at autonomous trucks.
You still think that's not coming? "60 Minutes" had a segment tonight on autonomous semis that will be on the road and operational by 2021. Teamsters rep said they'll lose hundreds of thousands of jobs. I suppose you'll say there will be plenty of high paying new jobs to take their place, there always is. Yang was predicting a third of jobs lost by 2030, half of all current jobs lost by 2050. Including a lot of white collar jobs. A little premature to be calling me Chicken Little. If FedEx and UPS can make drones work they will. What you should take away from that is they're looking at technology that will save them money by eliminating couriers. Whatever they can come up with will be acted on eventually. As will many other companies. Can't wait until you're told that the new AI can do your job better than you can, sorry. At that moment the word VANTEXAN will flash through your brain.
Dude, we're stupid truck drivers! Why do you even bother?
Not talking about courier jobs with the autonomous trucks. But I bet FedEx will invest in the tractor-trailers.
I don't want to be part of anything that could cause an 80,000 lb vehicle to run over families. I suspect most people don't either. And it's not just semi's. Tens of millions of jobs are at risk. Most likely you'll have some kind of government support, and an underground economy.
That’s not how we do things here. The answer is no. Your current contractor can’t offer you employment somewhere else to get out of unemployment. At most he can give you a lead at another opportunity. Unemployed people get leads for jobs all the time. You can say you applied if it becomes an issue but it won’t because that’s not legit. I’m sure he’ll tell you that to scare you into not applying but he’ll need to give unemployment a better reason if he tries to dispute the case.
Yang was predicting a third of jobs lost by 2030, half of all current jobs lost by 2050. Including a lot of white collar jobs. A little premature to be calling me Chicken Little. If FedEx and UPS can make drones work they will. What you should take away from that is they're looking at technology that will save them money by eliminating couriers. Whatever they can come up with will be acted on eventually. As will many other companies. Can't wait until you're told that the new AI can do your job better than you can, sorry. At that moment the word VANTEXAN will flash through your brain.
