Not Steve nor the political rhetoric that is rampant during times of elections (and otherwise - because you can only sell same sex nonsense for so long) but really the theory of what a job really is?
A job is something that requires specific intervention from man or machine to complete a task. This task could be as inane or meaningless as updating a facebook page or serious like replacing a person's heart valve as it sits opened on the operating table.
Now I have proposed in some of my previously completed tasks about my inability to comprehend various jobs or reasons why they exist. Here I try to build a comprehensive compendium for lack of anything fruitful to do this Sat morn.
1. Weathermen and women
2. Traffic update providing cretins
3. Air hosts of all kinds (they being far from hosts should be immediately disposed off and the term removed from our lexicon)
4. All manners of wait staff (if an owner so desires then restaurants can offer a handicap friendly service area for people who are; or like to be or feel coddled by people waiting on them). Most restuarants should simply allow their guests to walk to the trough and see the food being displayed and press a button for one to be prepared. Once prepared they can grab it and take it to the available empty table and proceed to consume it. What the heck is this idiotic idea of waiters and servers and guest attendants? It is a 20 min affair from being served to consumed to burp. Get it done and move on. Same with the morons that check you in to a hotel. Do we really need humans there? If nothing they are as clueless and not wanting any interaction whence some yokel wanders off to check in. If you know you have a room just use the fingerprint technology already discussed in an earlier profound blog and open the door to your room and get in. What is all this inane chatter at the front desk? And why this use of unncessary adjectives? Are there desks in the back? Where is that? I have not seen other desks? Have you?
Fast food model en masse. If you want to get friendly and chat go get a date. This would end the retarded practice of tipping as well.
5. All workers currently used to process air travellers and the likes. Totally useless and redundant job machine is all this is. None of these people actually give a hoot who you are and what you are doing here. They want that $10 an hour after they are done punching out. Do you really need barely educated people looking at what perfumes you are carrying in your handbag? Then to make sure that you have no footwear as you walk through scanners? If people do not do as instructions tell them - have a machine that whacks them. Simple. No discussion - ask me to walk naked through the scanner and I will - just do not introduce retarded agents to discuss specifics with me. If you see nothing other than the anatomy expected let me be on my way after I get dressed on the other side.
6. News readers - really - do you need a well dressed and highly compensated person to read from a TV screen? Just show me the pictures (blasts or gardens, food or famine, joy or despair) and provide content narrative - Richard Leakey and David Attenborough did not show their faces as they explained the mating habits of the chimps during their documentaries did they? That would have put someone off I bet. I mean people have developed some sort of Stockholm syndrome kind of attitude towards some of these dudes and dudettes...borderline delusional. They explain these anchors (another bizzare term to describe the insanity on the planet) have reached out to them and make the news sound believable. Thats exactly it - the drugging of the minds.
Man has tried and it is worth applauding the automation experiments that are underway for a while. Self check out at grocery stores and self service websites are an example. But it appears that we still tend to view them as anomalies not the norm. People apparently want that interaction only to blast the level of service being provided. I think its time we gave it serious thought and ditched the inefficiency and learned to help ourselves.
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
I have some predictions. You will not win an election anytime soon. You will have the low-IQ service job industries howling at you, in their most customer-insensitive manner. Readers will applaud.
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