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Computer Manages Restaurant Workers
9x320 writes "The chicken restaurant chain Zaxby's has started to use computers with software by Hyperactive Technologies to direct employees what to do and when to do it, and to decide how many should come to work. The computer works through the use of sensors, analysis of historic data, and touchscreens. The article compares the software to that in a science fiction novel published only just a few years ago, except the computer, Manna, also carried a voice synthesizer."
The computer directed me to round up all the neighborhood dogs - I'm just doing what it says, something about compensating for supply defeciency.
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We're going to need you to go ahead come in on saturday, Mmm..kay?
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Overheard behind the counter: "I'm sorry Bob, I can't allow you to jeopardize the restaurant. This conversation can serve no useful purpose. Goodbye."
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Yes, that's exactly what we need. Someone to manage a fast food restaurant's talent. After all, the one thing every fast food manager looks for is an employee who will step outside of the box and innovate! Someone who will try new things with the franchise, even at the possibility of lost sales, for the larger return in the future!
End sarcasm. Get a grip on reality. Fast food service is nothing but robotic work already, and that's the way the chains like it. If you don't want to be a robot, get a job somewhere else.
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Step 2: Say what you just told us, and that you would like to copyright it.
Step 3: When officer opens his mouth to say "but that's already been...", quick add "no no, I meant on the internet!
Step 4: Profit.
So Bob is running the place, and everything is fine. But what do you do when the insanely irate customer demands to speak to the manager in hopes of shouting horribly at a stranger until a free Large Fries is obtained? Bob can't help with that.
That's when ELIZA takes over. Simply diect the customer to the nearby terminal.
>HELLO CUSTOMER
>is this the manager?
>WHY DO YOU THINK THIS IS THE MANAGER?
>my frys were cold and I paid for this crap
AND WHY DO YOU THINK YOU PAID FOR THIS CRAP?
>i wanted hot firies but they was cold dammit!
>AND WHAT ELSE DO YOU THINK IS COLD DAMMIT?
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If you think people were pissed when the computer wouldn't let them get their CARS out of the garage, just wait until the computer won't let the PEOPLE out of the freezer because the restaraunt owner and the software vendor are mad at each other!
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Since I got my computer science bachelor's and hadn't been able to find a programming job with it, I thought maybe I could take said degree and become a middle manager at a fast food joint or something. Only now it appears that job is going to be taken: BY A COMPUTER!
Screwed again.
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