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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 21:28:56 GMT
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In article <310m8f$k3o@tribune.usask.ca>, Henry Choy <choy@cs.usask.ca> wrote:
>Paul Schuh (schuh@zeno) wrote:
>: Henry Choy (choy@cs.usask.ca) once wrote:
>: : Paul Schuh (schuh@zeno) wrote:
>: : : Moral: Keep expanding your horizons so you stay one step ahead of the
>: : : robots being built to replace you.
>
>: : Robots aren't the only ones that replace workers. Younger workers are
>: : also used to replace older workers. Often, well educated people are
>: : laid off instead of being promoted while less experienced employees
>: : are hired on a trial basis.
>
>: Well, less experienced employees can be considered to be robots... <grin>
>: They do what they're told without question. They don't have enough
>: knowledge to take initiative. In any case, it's still each INDIVIDUALS
>: responsibility to keep themselves valuable to the company their working
>: for.
>
>Employees should do more than just doing their job well. They should
>figure out how to make their company succeed.
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They figured that out a long time ago. They are the consumers. They gave up
trying to tell managers and owners when they wouldn't listen and knew
nothing about the real world. An insider on the line can tell you much more
surely how much longer his job will last the way the asshole managers run
the place!!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

>        Henry Choy                       "Math class is hard" - Barbie
>e-mail: choy@cs.usask.ca                  I AGREE!
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I really don't know why your approach to this whole issue is so "canned",
Henry, unless you, like many others in engineering who have given it a bad
name, are a one trick pony! You sound like you must either be a cynical
manager who couldn't hack real innovation, or a problem child of Asian
origin who can't figure out why he is so disliked by his team, when his
problem is a firmly clenched asshole! 
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

