17th March 2005, 5:41 PM
Well yeah. There's a reason having such a job is basically enough to label you as a bottom rung in society.
Besides that, it'll all be outsourced to computers anyway.
Oh, here's a job I can't see ANY value in. Why is it that Wal-Mart actually pays people to just say "hello" when you walk in? Okay, they probably do other stuff, but wow that has to be a moral deflator to those actually doing something like real work in the store when they are getting paid the exact same amount as the guy sitting in a chair paid to talk to people. Weltall, you tell us, what's it like working there? Any particular reason these people actually seem angry when I end up having to walk around for about 5 minutes just to find someone to get a game from the electronics center? It's like, for some of them anyway, actually having to DO their job is a freakin' annoyance.
Besides that, it'll all be outsourced to computers anyway.
Oh, here's a job I can't see ANY value in. Why is it that Wal-Mart actually pays people to just say "hello" when you walk in? Okay, they probably do other stuff, but wow that has to be a moral deflator to those actually doing something like real work in the store when they are getting paid the exact same amount as the guy sitting in a chair paid to talk to people. Weltall, you tell us, what's it like working there? Any particular reason these people actually seem angry when I end up having to walk around for about 5 minutes just to find someone to get a game from the electronics center? It's like, for some of them anyway, actually having to DO their job is a freakin' annoyance.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)