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Ask any employee in a job requiring one to three years of experience what their least favorite part of their role is, and the answer you will get is almost guaranteed to be “dealing with people.” Whether your job involves answering customer phone calls, responding to e-mails, or working a service desk, dealing with angry, annoyed, or just plain ignorant members of the public is enough to make an unemployment check start to look pretty good. Unsurprisingly, the majority of Millennials agree with you – so much so that the customer service industry may disappear forever.
One of the biggest ways we hate interacting with people is in ordering our drive-thru breakfasts on the way to work, because who has time to actually make a balanced meal? One-third of drive-thru users aged 18-24 chose not to go into the restaurant purely because of their hatred for the general public, and honestly, I can’t say that I blame them. Fast food restaurants are scrambling to adapt to this preferential change, making the switch to automated ordering technology. While this is a change that all of us people-haters love, there’s a real chance that since this technology has been so well-received, that all customer service jobs in fast food could disappear, and it’s not a stretch to predict that this technology can seep into other customer service industries, eliminating those human roles as well.
So thanks a lot, millennials – due to your indifference for the human population, your generation has single-handedly begun the massacre of one of the largest job sectors in America. While it’s a comfort to know that I may never have to explain my 10-word Starbucks order to a confused employee ever again, I have to live with the fact that my convenience comes at the cost of thousands and thousands of jobs across the country. But hey, we’re not called the most entitled generation in history for nothing, amiright? On the bright side, you may never have to worry about answering one more customer complaint in your entry-level position ever again – sure, your job may disappear completely, but at least you won’t get yelled at over the phone. I’ll take that as a win. .
[via Business Insider]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Good! Fuck those jobs. The human condition has already been replaced by pills, fake smiles, and hopelessness anyway. Plus have you talked to a person you don’t know for more than 5 minutes? That’s time you’ll never get back as you sit through talks about the weather or some other useless information just to arbitrarily fill time and space as if we know for certain that time and space actually exist.
Have you ever said anything of worth man? How do the lemmings on this site appreciate the hot air that is your lengthy, useless comments. Not to mention you try to sound smarter than you are.
Dudes on the Internet who say “lemmings” often also say things like “wake up, sheeple!”, and “MA! WHERE ARE MY HOTPOCKETS!”.
Not to beat a dead horse, but also, “you try to sound smarter than you are” in my experience, means “I don’t understand a lot of the words and concepts you speak of, but I’m too fucking stupid to even articulate that”.
Not only are you bad at trolling, but you choose to troll PGP? Fuck man, at least go troll TFM, at least you’ll get a rise out them. So either become a better troll or chug bleach. You know what, do both, just in case.
Hey, ATLGuy. I’ll be at Hartsfield on Tuesday if you feel like getting punched in the face.
If this fight happens, someone *cough, Rico* needs to write an article about it.
I’ll meet ya there!
ATLGuy, I hope you get a papercut on your dick tip
Oh you. You stupid little insignificant cunt. Do you think I really give a shit about what you think? Honestly? I know that the word lemmings was a big word for you and you should cite your sources when you spew such irrelevant garbage on here because your about as original as a carbon copy of some spreadsheet screenshot in every single fucking office, everywhere. And just so you know, hot air rises which is something I’m doing so I’ll take the compliment. That’s science. Maybe if you weren’t from Atlanta you’d understand that concept but you’ve been mentally poisoned by the false promises of an invisible man that kills people who don’t conform while also preaching acceptance and love. You are a dumb, sick fuck and I think it would be best if you put that license to carry to good use. This time though, maybe point the barrel to your face, make a YouTube video, and pull the trigger because that video will be the only resin of your existence on this planet and still, I don’t even think a lot of people would give a shit.
Holy shit that was aggressive. Don’t kill your self I need your dumb input to further my motivation to continue doing this shit.
Making the most of your first amendment rights. PGPM.
Idk what got into me. I drank at lunch today so that could be it but I had a salad with it which I though would mellow me out more. I guess not n
What do you do for a living?
I’m a homeless man holding the sign that says some ambiguous slogan about the end of days everywhere, in every major city across America.
What do YOU do for a living?
I’m a tax accountant that plays basketball before work to convince himself he’s not dead inside
In case it makes you feel less dead inside, I write software that automates tax estimation and calculation so maybe you won’t have to do your job very much longer?
Oh you’re dead inside too? Welcome. We’ve been trying to attract new members. Here’s our brochure, you can find us on WebMD under the depression symptoms link. Just scroll past all that sadness crap and you’ll find the existential root causes at the bottom
Damn…
Damnit you sick son of a bitch I thought you learned your lesson. You are the reason Bruce Jenner turned into a female. You’re also the reason why your mother cries herself to sleep every night because she hates the very thought of not aborting you when she had the chance. Do us all a favor and GTFO you sackless piece of horse shit.
Just posted a Customer Service job yesterday afternoon, and overnight got 60+ resumes soooo I’m not buying this.
I hate dealing with people but I’ll take what I can get. Where do I apply?
The automated ordering machines at fast food restaurants will no doubt be a norm for our grandchildren. We will one day tell them stories about how we had to walk up and talk to an actual person to order our food and they will be shocked and appalled.
And how we used to have use a phone connected to a wall to call a person to order a pizza.
This made me think of that Carl’s Jr. scene from Idiocracy
http://youtu.be/wW-4LU79qbU
Once again Idiocracy predicted the future.
I enjoy the comments on this site just as much as the articles themselves. And for that my peers, I thank you.
I’m told by my politically-loud Facebook friends that these aren’t the types of jobs we need in America anyway, so I guess that’s fine?
The fast food joint from Cloud Atlas may soon become a reality.