Is it a way to do more and there’s plenty of work to go around, it’s the future so get on board or get run over, or do you fight it at every turn knowing the end result means you are no longer required?
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A few automation projects I am aware of have no ROI, so I have to wonder for the PM behind it or their leadership- What’s the motivation if it’s not saving any money or time?
"Instead, we get hunger games with H1B visa folks who were brought over here to fill a supposed knowledge gap.
Both parties are guilty for this disparity and that's why either way, America is on a spiral to nowhere good..."
Just need to acknowledge the epifamy of "waking up", not WOKE!! #drain the swamp
What's your opinion on peanut butter?
Most of my work tasks are being automated and I hope to be laid off asap with the termination package.
Automation is not the enemy. It’s offshoring. See Att jobs bangalore India on LinkedIn.
Hasn't there been automation since direct dialing got rid of switchboard operators?
Automation is inevitable. it's why we have cars instead of horse-drawn carriages. It's why modern elevators don't require "elevator operators" ... we simply press buttons to takes us wherever we want to go on elevators nowadays.
Automation is not "the enemy within."
THE REAL "enemy within" is GREED that doesn't allow for the training and up-skilling of American citizens to the next level.
Instead, we get hunger games with H1B visa folks who were brought over here to fill a supposed knowledge gap.
Both parties are guilty for this disparity and that's why either way, America is on a spiral to nowhere good...
I’ll take a more narrow view of this. What I have seen, especially over the last 5 years or so…is more often than not automation for the sake of automation. I see certain tasks being “automated”. The “value” of the automation is the perceived saving of time, where it may have been a manual checking off of a milestone or task in a process, and now it is “automatically” getting done by a automated process flow. Theoretically freeing up a person to perform more important tasks than this type of thing . Makes sense. The reality for most of these changes however, has been that a process flow has gotten sc--wed up thanks to said “automation” and we subsequently spend far more time trying to figure out what has gone wrong than manually checking the box like we used to. Took like less than ten seconds, ya know? Not a big deal. But the people further away from the work don’t get that. And someone got to say they automated something on their accomplishments.
Thus far it’s helped me do my job better.
Not worried.
We as a society are essentially working towards our own extinction. Ask yourself, with every action you surrender to automation, does that increase or decrease your value?