tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164171948932943196.post1010551258278766526..comments2023-10-29T05:53:56.677-07:00Comments on Rag and Bone Buffet: Chatting in lineSamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14276712303501669141noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164171948932943196.post-80358584870376625662008-11-10T15:03:00.000-08:002008-11-10T15:03:00.000-08:00This is great info to know.This is great info to know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164171948932943196.post-32716468672375267502007-07-20T08:54:00.000-07:002007-07-20T08:54:00.000-07:00"What are they doing, negotiating over the price?"..."What are they doing, negotiating over the price?"<BR/><BR/>Hahaha - my own internal monologue name for this is "negotiating a mortgage" because it was the most complex transaction I could think of to be conducted between private citizens and retail employees.<BR/><BR/>HAL won't work, indeed it may make things worse: http://tinyurl.com/2y2esbEric Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04762493439295172023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164171948932943196.post-68908252768933234802007-06-18T11:52:00.000-07:002007-06-18T11:52:00.000-07:00What you've done here is restrict input and output...What you've done here is restrict input and output states of the sales clerk experience. Once you've done that, it is much cheaper and more efficient to replace the live humans with mechanic/electronic replacements, further encroaching up low-skilled jobs.<BR/><BR/>You would still want to have manager, and there will be a button to call for one, to handle outlier conditions, just like you still want salespeople on the floor to help.<BR/><BR/>But machines can handly an exponentially increasing amount of input/output states, rising up the ladder of jobs they can perform much more cheaply than a human.<BR/><BR/>"Stop chatting in line or I will replace you with HAL!"MikeKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15813099251733068708noreply@blogger.com