Waiters/Waitresses/bellboys etc just lost their jobs

[Alucard1]

Well, that is what technology can do for us, they are capable of doing things that we can do, and for sure there would be many robots or AI that will be implemented and will take over for some other jobs, there are many jobs that has been replaced by the technologies, for the company that is using it, this thing is very helpful for them to finish the things they need to but for those people who used to do those things will be bad for them because they are being replaced by technologies which result of being jobless. The question we have now, do we really need to have robots or not? What do you think?

[RealMalatesta]

If you can't do the job, you become a mechanic to fix or maintain the robot that took over your job, there is always money to be made. Or you could do a remote job that doesn't require a robot and you can do personally, no matter how high tech world gets I am sure we will be fine.

Plus, if the world reaches to a place where only a few job is required to be done by people, you could always go with UBI, that way companies will pay a lot more taxes, not as much as salary obviously but still a lot, like let's assume per person you pay 60k for salary, but 20k for tax instead if you can replace them with robots, that means that tax could go to government and government could pay enough money to people to survive, like 1k per month, which is not a lot but you can survive with that money.

[Inkdatar]

I just watched the whole video and this is what technology growing creates robotics conquering the human race. Many people have lost their jobs because the robots created yearly increases. This saddened those people who can’t find work, wants to compete with this technology that people adopt nowadays. In my view, I still prefer humans that can interact with people, and a lot of services can offer.

[bryant.coleman]

I just watched the whole video and this is what technology growing creates robotics conquering the human race. Many people have lost their jobs because the robots created yearly increases. This saddened those people who can’t find work, wants to compete with this technology that people adopt nowadays. In my view, I still prefer humans that can interact with people, and a lot of services can offer.

There is a lot of propaganda going on, with hardly any truth in them. Just ask yourself. Has the unemployment rate gone up during the last 2-3 decades? We already have a fair deal of automation present in almost all the sectors. It has made the life easier for a lot of people. Cost of production has gone down in manufacturing units, and efficiency has increased. And on the other hand, there is not an iota of truth in the claim that automation has caused an increase in the unemployment rate.

[iamsheikhadil]

Well, this is the reality of the world. The world is always changing and is very dynamic in nature. With technologies and progress, we will eventually require less human resources. When emails were invented, post-mails lost their demand. When wheel and carts were invented, riding on camels lost their demand. With progress, comes comfort but at the same time our value as human resource declines! It's the harsh reality!

[barbara44]

That is so heartbreaking because the hospitality industry is actually suffering a lot and there is no possible solution to fix it either because everyone is terrified to move out and there are some real suffering on travel, hotels and other hospitality industries. The place where I live some hotels are shut down since quite a time and while some are running and they deliver food for home others are closed for indefinite time and I do feel for them.

The travel agencies and websites have been really hit hard too because even though the virus is not spreading as much but still traveling around is the last thing anyone have on their minds. I have not left my city for at least 3 months now and I was someone who used to travel a lot and never really I had a 1 month period where I didn't travel to at least a nearby city.

[samputin]

Somehow it gave me goosebumps.

It is still way different when people are serving you.
You get smiles or sometimes you get an angry bellboy.  
Human interaction is still the best or we will end up just like these robots without emotions even in the slightest things.
I hope I am dead when that happens.

Same here, dude. Just thinking about it makes me feel sad, somehow. I mean, I think this kind of situation, where robots are the ones working, can be seen only in movies. But it seems that we're approaching that kind of future. I just hope that when that time comes, people would still have jobs using their skills and talents.

As of the moment, many workers lost their jobs indeed because of the pandemic but I hope things would be better next year, so the economy of many countries could bounce back and we could live a normal life once again.

[Silberman]

Given the level of service of some establishments and the attitude of the waiters to their work, I will only be happy with such a replacement. Constant rudeness, begging for tips for nothing and just not caring about their work - this is not what I expect when I come to a cafe or restaurant for lunch. I will be happy to go to a place where robots will serve everything. Not only will it be quite new and interesting, but at the same time I will not get negative feedback from hostesses and waiters who think too much about themselves.

And this is one of the main advantages robots have over people, if someone is being paid to do a job then they should be as nice as possible to their clients and yet you receive terrible service and they still want to receive a huge tip for a job they did not even do properly, this is what is causing many businesses to make the switch, some people do not seem to understand that under the current circumstances holding a job is a blessing and yet it seems they think the job they are performing is below them and with that kind of attitude is easy to see how robots will eventually replace a great deal of the service economy.

[Gozie51]

The travel agencies and websites have been really hit hard too because even though the virus is not spreading as much but still traveling around is the last thing anyone have on their minds. I have not left my city for at least 3 months now and I was someone who used to travel a lot and never really I had a 1 month period where I didn't travel to at least a nearby city.

The travel agencies really suffered in the pandemic and also entertainment plus DJs. I know in my area the number of entertainers and also DJs that have been out of job because of the restrictions in human gathering. Those who didn't obey are serving sentence in community service for a month. This is serious then but the limitations in gathering and other things are going away as businesses are opening gradual and with more little time, it will all be history in human life.

[Oasisman]

Given the level of service of some establishments and the attitude of the waiters to their work, I will only be happy with such a replacement. Constant rudeness, begging for tips for nothing and just not caring about their work - this is not what I expect when I come to a cafe or restaurant for lunch. I will be happy to go to a place where robots will serve everything. Not only will it be quite new and interesting, but at the same time I will not get negative feedback from hostesses and waiters who think too much about themselves.

Except to those restaurants with highly disciplined employees. Nonetheless, what you said is actually true where everyone has experienced rude food servers that gives the quality of their service depends on the amount of tip.
I'm not sure If I'm going to be happy with this changes where there are people that'll lost their jobs, but as long as these culture in the restaurant won't change, then I guess I should choose to be served by a robot which is a lot more accurate than human to start with, when talking about advantages against human.

[bits4books]

Given the level of service of some establishments and the attitude of the waiters to their work, I will only be happy with such a replacement. Constant rudeness, begging for tips for nothing and just not caring about their work - this is not what I expect when I come to a cafe or restaurant for lunch. I will be happy to go to a place where robots will serve everything. Not only will it be quite new and interesting, but at the same time I will not get negative feedback from hostesses and waiters who think too much about themselves.

And this is one of the main advantages robots have over people, if someone is being paid to do a job then they should be as nice as possible to their clients and yet you receive terrible service and they still want to receive a huge tip for a job they did not even do properly, this is what is causing many businesses to make the switch, some people do not seem to understand that under the current circumstances holding a job is a blessing and yet it seems they think the job they are performing is below them and with that kind of attitude is easy to see how robots will eventually replace a great deal of the service economy.

To be honest - I don't even ask for some super courtesy and that everyone is circling around me for a conditional 10% of the amount of the check in the form of a tip.
The simplest example is if I ask the waiter not to BOTHER ME again until I call him, then I expect him to do what I asked. Instead, he still keeps coming up every 10 minutes and asking some bullshit. So what? When I payed the check, I saw the tip that was already included (the waiter turned it on himself) and ask
- Where did the tip come from?
- Well, didn't you like the service?
- No.
I do not mind the money, but I believe that if I ask for something quite feasible (simple inaction) it should be done without questions, "do you like our service".

[bits4books]

Given the level of service of some establishments and the attitude of the waiters to their work, I will only be happy with such a replacement. Constant rudeness, begging for tips for nothing and just not caring about their work - this is not what I expect when I come to a cafe or restaurant for lunch. I will be happy to go to a place where robots will serve everything. Not only will it be quite new and interesting, but at the same time I will not get negative feedback from hostesses and waiters who think too much about themselves.

Except to those restaurants with highly disciplined employees. Nonetheless, what you said is actually true where everyone has experienced rude food servers that gives the quality of their service depends on the amount of tip.
I'm not sure If I'm going to be happy with this changes where there are people that'll lost their jobs, but as long as these culture in the restaurant won't change, then I guess I should choose to be served by a robot which is a lot more accurate than human to start with, when talking about advantages against human.

The saddest thing is that every year there are more and more cases of bad service due to bad waiters. All these young boys/girls who go to waiters as a "summer part - time job" or while they are "looking for themselves" - they do not understand at all what the client expects and how to behave to be a really good waiter.
I'm sorry but let them be robots instead of these not very smart bags of bones.

[Darkelf11]

It is part of the evolution of technology, that's why any course related to it are in-demand in our society. We need to adapt these changes with our technology and I know that there will be some errors that can be experienced in using this. No can replace human because they are the highest rank living thing in earth. Robots can be developed and upgraded depending on the needs of the people. Robots may cost lots of money than the fee to human labor but it makes work easier and not time-consuming.

[lixer]

for those people who used to do those things will be bad for them because they are being replaced by technologies which result of being jobless. The question we have now, do we really need to have robots or not? What do you think?

For me it’s not a good thing. To answer this particular question we should look at the disadvantages of having a high rate of unemployment, and the things it can cause. I believe that when we know these disadvantages we wouldn’t agree to replace humans with robots. I know the rich will always do anything to save cost for themselves, not minding how it affects the poor.

Robots are cool, although I wouldn’t like to go to a restaurant and be served by a robot, nah no way. And by the way why are you saying this like the robots can never break down? they are not going to be working for months without experience some fault right, or don’t they? But whatever, I would like all these robots replacing humans and causing more increase in the rate of unemployment, it would be very bad.

[NavI_027]

for those people who used to do those things will be bad for them because they are being replaced by technologies which result of being jobless. The question we have now, do we really need to have robots or not? What do you think?

I know the rich will always do anything to save cost for themselves, not minding how it affects the poor.

That's why poors like us should think of a way on how to have a passive income before we grow old and our energy depleted. Let's brace ourselves because most of rich people are heartless, they are thinking too logical that's why what matters the most for them are the profits and the welfare of employees is just an option. That's a fact, we can't please all of them to adjust for us.

So let's save money not only for the sake of saving. Save money for you to have a capital and invest somewhere you believe you can earn. If you lose then try again. Failures are temporary .

[so98nn]

Is this the video about the launch of the Spot Robot from Boston Dynamics? The humanoid robots are far from gaining the kind of dexterity and maneuverability to function in a room crowded with people bumping into them. Even if some day they did, i don't think that patrons would prefer continue going to a restaurant to be served by charm-less robots.
A real waitress/ waiter has so much more to offer to the ambiance as well as the customer. Some "services" would always remain better with humans.

Yeah, this is so true. I have visited one of the hotel in my hometown and they had the name of hotel Robot itself. Well the experience was amazing but it wasn’t something that one could imagine from sci-fi movie like Better Than Us.
No, it wasn’t that superior. It was just pre programmed steps that were taken by robot and it only did one thing, it moved in the so called predefined path seen on the floor as a wire. It wasn’t able to move backward. So if it went ahead then it has to go Merry round and then come to your table again.

So I’m not sure if you talking about this or not, but yeah in a nutshell it wasn’t amazing experience. Only fun stuff.

[wack slacker]

Services are one of the three industries that account for a high proportion of the economy. With the major economies in the world, with the majority of services contributing more than 40% of the economic structure, a pandemic will cause the industry to suffer many losses, and the number of jobs lost is also very large.
I do not find it strange that many people working as waitresses and flight attendants lose their jobs. Restaurants, cafes and eateries have been closed due to the pandemic. Everyone consumes at the supermarket and dine at home.
Unemployment is not the worst because they can live off the money they have saved earlier. For the homeless, the epidemic was even worse.

[gabbie2010]

Waiters/Waitresses/bellboys etc just lost their jobs

Spot Price 74500 USD
Human BellBoy salary 1000-3000 usd / month ( developed countries )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkCQXHEgjA


74500 usd / 3000 = in around 25 months i will recover my investment with Spot as a hotel owner ,no more need for human worker ...

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Boston Dynamics

The  rapid technological innovations particularly in machine intelligence MI and artificial intelligence AI is in leap and bound to be candid this issue of robot taking over some of those jobs will come to reality, many organizations, hotels, companies e.t.c will be taking measures to reduce operational cost and maximize profits of course they will resort to using these robots, sadly its will definitely result to job losses, and job cut,  world population is increasing annually thus more problems there will be millions of jobless people whose responsibilities will have to be taken care-of by government.

[sana54210]

I really do hope that this happens, type of jobs that doesn't require any qualifications would be able to actually get done by robots and other mechanical gadgets, like for example when you go to a mcdonalds, do you REALLY need any workers there? What do they do?

There is someone who is there that takes your order and they tell it to the cooks, then they take your money either credit or cash or whatever and give you receipt or change or whatever, during that time there is a cook making your food and getting it ready, and after that it is put on a tray and given to you.

Do you really assume that can't be done mechanically? A screen where you can pick whatever you want to eat, pay with card or cash to something like an ATM and after that your order is getting ready by some machines automatically and cooked literally exactly same at each time and given to you, all automated. BUT! Mcdonalds should be paying tons and tons of more tax for not having a single worker in their places, all that money that was normally going to workers should be taxed, and that tax should be given to UBI for people who need it.

[redsun114]

world population is increasing annually thus more problems there will be millions of jobless people whose responsibilities will have to be taken care-of by government.

What makes you believe the government will be taking the responsibility for those who are jobless?
They have not even done the simple things they are meant to do, not to talk about taking responsibility for hundreds of millions of people that are going to become jobless due to AI taking over their job.

Let’s not even talk about those, because right now we already have lots of jobless people and unemployment is increasing daily, have the government done anything about it or taken the responsibility for those? So what’s making you think that in future they will take that kind of responsibility?