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Or maybe not. Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774
by mhb 5y ago
Or maybe not. Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774
- gruez 5y agoYeah, the non-sinister explanation is that mcdonalds decided to go with a self-cleaning machine to reduce the possibility of workers messing up the cleaning cycle, taylor implementing that badly, and no one else using self-clean machines.
- skeeter2020 5y agoMcDonalds has very strong incentives to reduce labour costs to zero. This started with very clear & limited roles which meant cheap rates, but now means reducing the number of employees. At $5/hour it's cheaper to train and manage people to do the job; @ > $15/hr you can justify an army of machines and a few technicians, even if your ice cream machine seems to be broken a lot of the time.
- shagie 5y agoIf you poke at McD's corporate jobs in IT, you'll find a bunch of jobs in machine learning, audio processing and similar for an AI drive through project. https://careers.mcdonalds.com/global-corporate/jobs?categories=Information%20Technology&page=1&limit=100 https://careers.mcdonalds.com/global-corporate/jobs?categori... Many of the tech positions have been filled (from what they were a year ago)... though still more than a few.