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But the project moved ahead, and the company said it would retrain Gary to work on the new printers. It turned out he wasn’t much interested in learning a new j
by EADGBE 8y ago
But the project moved ahead, and the company said it would retrain Gary to work on the new printers. It turned out he wasn’t much interested in learning a new job three decades into his career, however, and took the news as the latest in a long line of slights from management.
To me, it seems the larger problem is a lack of willingness to learn a new technology/role. Gary had an opportunity to learn the new way to 3d print molds. He chose to disregard it. [He pushed back. Production was slowed]* He no longer was needed.
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- cbanek 8y agoThis is how I feel with automating tasks. It really frees me and other people up to work on the never ending pile of work that is more valuable than just rote daily maintenance tasks. I've never been able to automate so much that I automated myself out of a job though, or anyone else for that matter. They just always get reassigned to do something else. There's always plenty of work for capable people. I think the problem comes when you are unwilling or unable to accept new work/tasks/technologies and are kind of "left behind." If a company has a lot of these manual tasks that can be easily automated, and they don't, and there's another company who has the talent and will to automate it, the slower moving company will be inevitably put out of business, because they are inherently less competitive.