Originally Posted by MudhammedCJ (Post 3250806)

Or better yet, automate coffee making. Maybe give the barista some motivation to get a real degree or trade training so they can be both useful to society and make a decent living by providing that useful service. Because piercing every part of your body, and spending more than you make in a month on a ridiculous tattoo is not the best lifestyle choice.

Originally Posted by JulesWinfield (Post 3250804)

Maybe the market has just corrected itself. Why make $3/hr as a restaurant server when similar jobs are paying much more? These businesses were quick to layoff workers without any sympathy, so I'm not sure why you, as a labor employee, fault anyone for taking a better option.

Originally Posted by TexasFlight (Post 3250819)

AUS has the robot barista machine which turns out some pretty good coffee. I was also in line one day when it got out of sync and failed in pretty epic fashion. It was basically dumping drink after drink onto the floor of the terminal and it was at that point that I quit worrying about a Pilot-less airplane.

Originally Posted by JulesWinfield (Post 3250804)

Maybe the market has just corrected itself. Why make $3/hr as a restaurant server when similar jobs are paying much more? These businesses were quick to layoff workers without any sympathy, so I'm not sure why you, as a labor employee, fault anyone for taking a better option.

Originally Posted by MudhammedCJ (Post 3250806)

Or better yet, automate coffee making. Maybe give the barista some motivation to get a real degree or trade training so they can be both useful to society and make a decent living by providing that useful service. Because piercing every part of your body, and spending more than you make in a month on a ridiculous tattoo is not the best lifestyle choice.

Originally Posted by BKbigfish (Post 3250861)

Amazing how quickly you guys turned a thread about a spectacular failure of the private sector into a thread whining about the federal government.