Close to Home by John McPherson for November 22, 2013

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    hsawlrae  almost 11 years ago

    Go ahead, short his circuit.

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    coffeemugman  almost 11 years ago

    But what he hasn’t said is the robot has no extended warranty, parts cost 4x as much s the original one from the factory, and…it has a crush on the vending machine in the break room.

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    edclectic  almost 11 years ago

    Besides, we’ll all be robots.

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    PICTO  almost 11 years ago

    R.U.R.

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    scyphi26  almost 11 years ago

    We’ll probably will have let them do it too.

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    jackdohany  almost 11 years ago

    Just don’t let it pinch you!

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    Boots at the Boar Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    I’ve been in so many factories, warehouses, and abattoirs that are completely automated. It is freaky that you can traverse row after row of machines, churning out thousands of parts/pieces per second, and never see another human being. Recently I spotted a guy wearing a “be nice to me or I’ll replace you with a perl script” t-shirt. Nice touch.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    The head of the auto worker’s union was being given a tour of General Motors one day by the GM President. When they were viewing a new automated construction line, watching the machines turn and whir, the president of GM said to the Union leader, “I’d like to see you try to collect union dues from those machines.”The union leader looked at the president of GM and said, “I’d like to see you try to sell them a car.”True story…

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    Jeff0811  almost 11 years ago

    …And our department is no longer called Human Resources.

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