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> Ford style assembly lines The ones with 10 hour shifts and mandatory overtime? Yea, I don't think it's the _line_ that's making them miserable. > Partiall
by themafia 5mo ago
> Ford style assembly lines
The ones with 10 hour shifts and mandatory overtime? Yea, I don't think it's the _line_ that's making them miserable.
> Partially automated cashier did the same thing.
I've not once heard anyone in the service industry make this complaint.
> as the efficiency benefits are too important.
You can squeeze every last drop of productivity from your employees. In the short term this may even evidence profits. In the long term it only works if you hold a monopoly position.
- stephc_int13 5mo ago"The ones with 10 hour shifts and mandatory overtime? Yea, I don't think it's the _line_ that's making them miserable." The whole innovation was about making the jobs as simple and repetitive as possible so humans would basically work like robots. Once you're there, having removed any agency and freedom, pushing the hours to the limits of human exhaustion is just one logical step.
- 3fsd 5mo agoYou've described the amazon warehouse. Ive worked in there and trust me, I did not see people displaying exhaustion etc. There were many there who did the job purely because of how simple it was and were ok with it. Perhaps they got conditioned to it. Yes it was jarring for me to experience that.
- themafia 5mo ago> was about making the jobs as simple and repetitive as possible so humans would basically work like robots. So they make fewer mistakes. Not that they become zombies that you are then able to abuse. > pushing the hours to the limits of human exhaustion is just one logical step. There's nothing logical about ignoring consequences. Which is probably why the "union strike" even exists. It's fighting illogic with illogic.