You can be replaced by a robot doofus

Good day all. With all the other things going on in the world, one thing that’s gone under the radar of late are the burger flippers who think they’re worth $15.00 per hour. So determined are they in their fight for “Social Justice” that they are out blocking traffic and making pains of themselves.

This mess started with King Putt and the Progressives determined to raise the teen unemployment levels to 100 percent. Since none of the Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats have ever worked at a minimum wage job, (Trust funds don’t you know), they have decided that they will force businesses to pay these drones wages for jobs that aren’t worth what the PLFD’s think they’re worth. (Hey, it’s not there money and they wouldn’t be caught dead in Burger King or McDonalds)

There is also the problem of the Unions pushing for the increases in the minimum wage. There is nothing altruistic about this. Many union contracts have the compensation for the union workers tied to multiples of the minimum wage. If they can force a federal increase in the minimum wage, it’s an automatic pay hike for their membership.

Well, with the help of the unions, these fast food workers are now out demanding more money claiming they can’t live on what they are making. In a story from Associated Press, these morons are now taking pages from the unions and breaking the law. Here are the details from AP:

Police handcuffed dozens of protesters in cities around the country on Thursday as they blocked traffic in the latest attempt to escalate their efforts to get McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour. The protests, which were planned by labor organizers for about 150 cities nationwide throughout Thursday, are part of a campaign called “Fight for $15.”

Typical union thug tactics of course. However, what the “Labor Organizers” might not have bothered to tell these idiots is that the businesses that employ them might decide that their services are no longer required and fire their dumb asses. It’s not like they won’t be able to replace them. Flipping burgers is not what you would call a “High skilled” job. In fact, at the pay rate they’re demanding, automating them out of a job starts looking cost effective.

And right on time, a company has built a robot to do just that. In a story by the Business Insider:

A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs. The company’s robot can “slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.” The robot is “more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.” That’s one burger every 10 seconds.

And, unlike some idiot teenager, the robot isn’t going to add something to the burger that isn’t on the recipe.

Momentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his “device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them.”Indeed, marketing copy on the company’s site reads that their automaton “does everything employees can do, except better.”

This has always been the problem for “Labor leaders.” They go out their demanding more money then a job is worth, and someone figures out a way to automate the fools right on to the unemployment line. It’s happened in every single industry in the United States. When possible, the low skilled jobs will be automated if possible. With the auto industry, the car makers got tired of paying someone $20/hr just to turn a wrench.

Manufacturers also moved a lot of capacity to places like Mexico and China. Foxconn is notorious for long benches of workers slaving away assembling Iphones and other products. Now they too have run into the problem of workers wanting more money, (And they weren’t paid very well to begin with), and now they’re looking at automating the assembly lines.

The minimum wage job was never meant to be a permanent job. It’s meant to be an entry level job, one where someone with no work history or experience can go to and learn what’s like to have to show up for work and more importantly, how to do a job. You would be surprised how many people don’t actually understand that they need to show up and perform for that paycheck.

When I started out in the Information Technology field, I knew nothing. I was paid the minimum wage at the time and used my time to learn my trade. I don’t make minimum wage now, I make quite a bit more. (Although I will complain that I’m underpaid, especially since I was called at 1am to fix a problem. AW)

Anyone who stays at a minimum wage job and doesn’t look to move on to a better paying job is, in my opinion, to stupid to be allowed to run around without adult supervision. I suspect that in the next few weeks, quite a few of these loudmouthed idiots are going to discover the joys of “Funemployment” and just how hard it will be for them to find anything else. The best way to get ahead is to stay in schools, or go back to school and stop thinking the world owes you anything. America is the Land of Opportunity, (Provided that Obama and the PLFD’s get out of the way), and everyone has the same chances. What you do with those chances is up to you.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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