Your numbers are way off. It's <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.
Your numbers are way off. It’s <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.
You're leaving out a LOT of workers, I'm afraid; 20 states don't have a higher minimum wage. So they should fuck off I guess
In 1938, Federal Minimum wage was for a family of four to stay out of poverty... we've obviously abandoned that. But keep defending the status quo that's fine it's your right
I'm not 'defending the status quo' I'm saying your numbers are bullshit. Less than a million people make federal minimum wage and most of those people are wait staff who are taking home a lot more than that.
And where are you getting your data from? Browsing the DOLs OFLC wage search the lowest I can find for a wage level 1 food service worker was 8.48 searching through rural Mississippi. Most metropolitan areas are > 10 an hour closer to 15.
Just because states don't have their own minimum wage doesn't mean everyone in a shit job is actually making that little.
What the absolute fuck. This has got to be the most ass-backward way of designing and implementing an inventory tracking system I have ever seen. They put no effort into the thinking behind "How do we replace employees walking the aisles regularly to check?" and went straight to "We need a robot to walk the aisles regularly" instead of any sort of sensible system that uses known shelf locations and sensors, for example. This is just really lazy on both the product designers and the supermarket chains.
The have been a thing for a few years now, since way before the AI boom and even Covid in some places.
They also alert when there are spills, some can scan items for price checks or give directions to customers, and they’re like a roving security camera that can catch angles you don’t get from ceiling cams (although it of course has to be nearby)
Rumor is that Boston Dynamics is working on integrating this into one of those Dog Robots so that if it detects you shoplifting it can run you down and tear you to pieces right there in the cereal aisle
Please lemme know what store so I can come in and “accidentally” slip and fall and hurt myself on one of these uncleaned messes. I could use some sweet corpo cash.
Not only are a lot of the fun drugs a crime in their own right, some of them might also lower your threshold for being willing to commit other victimless crimes!
Our grocery store has had this thing for years, and it doesn't seem to do anything but get in the way. I have no clue why they pay for this stupid thing.
Store near me has one named "Tally" thay goes up and down isles doing inventory. Its real tall and just scans the shelves. It is ironically one of the most employee-focused grocery stores, offering 401k and paid vacation and the like to its employees. Its a family-owned chain and well respected. The kids love Tally.
Which is what tech is supposed to do: make the shitty jobs easier. As long as there's enough other work and it's not replacing an employee I'm fine with that aspect of it.
There are other issues with it (privacy, subscription models, etc)
We had one of these when I briefly worked at a grocery store. Manager told me that it would detect spills and make a sound to alert staff, to reduce the odds of someone slipping and suing. never saw it do this before a customer would report a spill anyway though. Union did put up a bunch of flyers in the break room warning that if told to do some kind of training lesson related the robot, to refuse and call them to report it, never did see that come up or learn what the deal there was either.
at my local grocery store, there is a robot that looks like the one in the OP, but it goes along the aisles and shines a bright light at the shelves, and is either scanning barcodes or is taking pictures or something - it's doing something related to inventory, price-checking, etc. but I don't know what, and I'm so curious what the robot is used for.
I don't think the robot I've been seeing does anything other than work its way through the store looking at the shelves, though. It's sorta annoying when you need access to a part of the shelf the robot is scanning, though, or when you have to move your cart around it, etc.
Check port compatibility and ensure that you have updated your antivirus.
Have you though about an OnlyFans account once you have the robot? Might cover your lifestyle needs.
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Hackworth@piefed.ca · 123 pts · 137d
Stores don't actually own Towelie. They rent it for $2000-$4000 per month per robot.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 88 pts · 137d
For those curious, this is 9-18 hours of (US federal) minimum wage per day.
testfactor@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 137d
To be fair, I'd imagine most of these are deployed in places with much higher minimum wage.
It's only 4-8 hours in California for example, using the same math.
Not saying it's good. Just saying that they probably don't have a wide deployment in, say, Mississippi.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 137d
Also most places don’t pay federal minimum wage these days. Even McDonald’s pays $15 an hour in most areas.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 137d
Last time I looked, over 10 million workers make federal minimum wage, tens of millions make less than fifteen an hour.
Our entire workforce is 160 million people or so, so it's a huge problem for our consumer economy.
spacesatan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 137d
Your numbers are way off. It's <2% of workers making minimum wage and a significant fraction are waitstaff who are getting most of their income from tips.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
You're leaving out a LOT of workers, I'm afraid; 20 states don't have a higher minimum wage. So they should fuck off I guess
In 1938, Federal Minimum wage was for a family of four to stay out of poverty... we've obviously abandoned that. But keep defending the status quo that's fine it's your right
spacesatan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 137d
I'm not 'defending the status quo' I'm saying your numbers are bullshit. Less than a million people make federal minimum wage and most of those people are wait staff who are taking home a lot more than that.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 136d
And where are you getting your data from? Browsing the DOLs OFLC wage search the lowest I can find for a wage level 1 food service worker was 8.48 searching through rural Mississippi. Most metropolitan areas are > 10 an hour closer to 15.
Just because states don't have their own minimum wage doesn't mean everyone in a shit job is actually making that little.
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca · 29 pts · 137d
I thought this was just a meme. Stores use AI robots for inventory now? What?
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 137d
Yeah, they make droid noises.
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca · 33 pts · 137d
What the absolute fuck. This has got to be the most ass-backward way of designing and implementing an inventory tracking system I have ever seen. They put no effort into the thinking behind "How do we replace employees walking the aisles regularly to check?" and went straight to "We need a robot to walk the aisles regularly" instead of any sort of sensible system that uses known shelf locations and sensors, for example. This is just really lazy on both the product designers and the supermarket chains.
4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 137d
The have been a thing for a few years now, since way before the AI boom and even Covid in some places.
They also alert when there are spills, some can scan items for price checks or give directions to customers, and they’re like a roving security camera that can catch angles you don’t get from ceiling cams (although it of course has to be nearby)
Angrydeuce@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 137d
Rumor is that Boston Dynamics is working on integrating this into one of those Dog Robots so that if it detects you shoplifting it can run you down and tear you to pieces right there in the cereal aisle
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 136d
It's not shoplifting if you haven't left the aisle yet. Are they also developing a future crime prediction chip?
Corn@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 136d
Yes, here's the training data they're using. Its 99% as accurate as current police.
::: spoiler spoiler
:::
Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 137d
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 137d
Wouldn't literally just one stationary camera be more effective?
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 137d
Oh man I hate the BJ's robot noise.
I'm fine with the inventory robot, but can't it just make a whoosh or whirr like an electric car?
morto@piefed.social · 6 pts · 137d
I've read all the site and I still don't know what that thing is supposed to do. The meme is right.
MrRandom@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 135d
why have staff work 1 hour extra per month when you can pay at least double with this fancy roomba
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 137d
Does it have RAM in it?
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 137d
Almost certainly. Probably not DIMMs though
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
Why not? I would figure off-the-shelf components would be easier to work with.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 135d
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Makes sense.
flandish@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 137d
probably. but soldered. probably just a toradex calibri or something doing iot shit.
or a nuc with a shitty dimm form factory.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 137d
Thank god for the humble hot air station
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 136d
Look at mr fancy over here with their hot air station. Are you too good to just take a propane torch to the board and pray like the rest of us?
flandish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
indeed!
otacon239@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 137d
Why do you think it costs $35k?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 137d
Those eyes, and have you seen the backside?
Klear@quokk.au · 8 pts · 137d
No, but I'll pay $500 to get at it.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 137d
Tell your local crackhead that there's 10 lbs of copper wires inside
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 136d
athatet@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 135d
Please lemme know what store so I can come in and “accidentally” slip and fall and hurt myself on one of these uncleaned messes. I could use some sweet corpo cash.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 137d
Watching for $200 is a steal.
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 4 pts · 137d
I cannot imagine them not hurting themself.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 136d
Sorry, I'm not a be gay do crime queer, I'm a anxious that the person at the cash register is uncomfortable that I said hello to them queer
I feel like such a disappointment to my community 🥹 I'm so sorry I've let y'all down
Godric@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 136d
Hey bud, I have a banger of a song that you might need in your life:
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emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 135d
Not only are a lot of the fun drugs a crime in their own right, some of them might also lower your threshold for being willing to commit other victimless crimes!
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d
You are doing your best and I am proud of you. Internet hugs are being sent your way.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
In this day and age, our very existence is a crime. You are gay, and therefore, you do crime just by breathing. :)
MoonRaven@feddit.nl · 20 pts · 136d
Hey, $300 is $300.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 137d
Our grocery store has had this thing for years, and it doesn't seem to do anything but get in the way. I have no clue why they pay for this stupid thing.
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 137d
Kinky
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 9 pts · 137d
U wanna fuck that robot? Just watch as I trip over it and sue
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 137d
So, this is blatant bullshit, even more pathetic because it's trying to trick you into thinking it's true with scary red text and ALL CAPS.
As linked above, Payscale says the average is over $15/hour.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
He also said he wanted to fuck the robot, can you fact check that real quick too?
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Also bullshit and now I'm out $200
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
Best $200 I've ever spent.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
Well I didn't enjoy it and I'm not a sex robot ok so drop it.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
Okay but we’re talking about the robot here.
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 136d
What's a geocery robot?
ButtDrugs@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 136d
Store near me has one named "Tally" thay goes up and down isles doing inventory. Its real tall and just scans the shelves. It is ironically one of the most employee-focused grocery stores, offering 401k and paid vacation and the like to its employees. Its a family-owned chain and well respected. The kids love Tally.
oatscoop@midwest.social · 16 pts · 136d
Which is what tech is supposed to do: make the shitty jobs easier. As long as there's enough other work and it's not replacing an employee I'm fine with that aspect of it.
There are other issues with it (privacy, subscription models, etc)
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 136d
Most employers legit despise humans, and legit treat their robots better.
And I understand why, you would all be the same shit as them if you had the money.
aeiou@piefed.social · 7 pts · 137d
The googly eyes. Other models use screens for animated 'eyes' but this thing? Just stick some giant eyes on it and call it a day.
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 136d
The average grocery store worker doesn't make minimum wage
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 137d
the robot does more than "nothing", no?
weird that the meme says that
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 13 pts · 137d
We had one of these when I briefly worked at a grocery store. Manager told me that it would detect spills and make a sound to alert staff, to reduce the odds of someone slipping and suing. never saw it do this before a customer would report a spill anyway though. Union did put up a bunch of flyers in the break room warning that if told to do some kind of training lesson related the robot, to refuse and call them to report it, never did see that come up or learn what the deal there was either.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 137d
at my local grocery store, there is a robot that looks like the one in the OP, but it goes along the aisles and shines a bright light at the shelves, and is either scanning barcodes or is taking pictures or something - it's doing something related to inventory, price-checking, etc. but I don't know what, and I'm so curious what the robot is used for.
I don't think the robot I've been seeing does anything other than work its way through the store looking at the shelves, though. It's sorta annoying when you need access to a part of the shelf the robot is scanning, though, or when you have to move your cart around it, etc.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 137d
That... Took a turn..
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 137d
Check port compatibility and ensure that you have updated your antivirus.
Have you though about an OnlyFans account once you have the robot? Might cover your lifestyle needs.
Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 137d
Who do I need to contact?
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
I guarantee the average grocery store worker is getting paid above minimum wage.
Very few places only pay minimum wage these days.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
Narrator- in this case, "very few places" means millions of employees.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 2 pts · 135d
Is that $200 on top of the $500? I could use $700.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 136d
Why would anyone sell it when they can have sex with it themselves?
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 137d