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I was just at an airport and bought a pre-packed sandwich from the refrigerator, and the POS was setup to ask for tips! I have sympathy for workers at places li
by orev 3y ago
I was just at an airport and bought a pre-packed sandwich from the refrigerator, and the POS was setup to ask for tips! I have sympathy for workers at places like this, as I know they don’t get paid much, but this is probably the last straw for me.
When I see stuff like this, it increases my aggravation level, and I’m sure it has the same effect on others. Retail workers already get treated badly by customers, and this could easily start pushing some people other the edge.
It seems like we’re entering the era of the “aggravation economy”, where the new strategy seems to be to annoy the hell out of people as much as possible so they pay to make it stop. This has been perfected by tech companies for years, and now seems to be spilling over into the real world.
- hotpotamus 3y agoWithout getting into a whole thing about automating away peoples' jobs, buying pre-packaged sandwiches from a machine is a technical challenge that I believe was solved in the 19th century and there was a little automat fad surrounding it. Certainly it's how I buy lunch on many a day when I don't want to have to deal with social interaction.