liquidindian
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If you operate the self-service pump it's a scab pump, and you're a scab for using it. I didn't make this rule, I'm just applying it fairly.
The end of scab tills
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Reaching out
Wrong. They are a scab pump if you choose to pay at the pump.
liquidindian
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Nope. You pump your own gas, that's someone out of a job, exactly like a self-service till. You should be more like me and never pump your own gas.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
That's impossible here, I can't think of a single operated pump still in existence.
liquidindian
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But how do you expect old people to do it? What about people for whom that's the only interaction they have in a day? Did people just... get used to it?
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
I've been driving since 1981 and the only time I ever encountered a pump attendant was about... er... 1981, and that was somewhere back of beyond.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I think it’s only New Jersey in the states that you’re not allowed to fill up your car yourself
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I passed my test in 1978 and I don't think I've ever not had to fill my own tank in the UK. I've had other people do it abroad but it feels frankly weird.
I normally pay at the kiosk though and only pay at the pump when it's a choice of pay at the pump or not have any fuel.
I normally pay at the kiosk though and only pay at the pump when it's a choice of pay at the pump or not have any fuel.
liquidindian
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But they're taking your labour for free! It's neoliberalism gone mad!
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
In the late 70s I had a short-lived Sunday morning job filling cars at our local newsagents that had a solitary old fashioned pump outside (metal numbers that clicked and a wee glass “bubble” on the side with a little paddle that went around when filling up, etc.). I say short-lived as a modern self-service petrol station opened up next door and put them out of business.
oxygenthief
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The petrol station in Bala, north Wales still has pump attendants if you feel that you are missing out.
skyscraper101
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Speaking of petrol stations, an interesting fact is that mechanical car washes on petrol station forecourts are one of the few automated industries in decline. They've more than halved in the UK in the last 20 years, while the hand car wash industry has cleaned up. You can partly thank modern slavery for that.
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I would not touch an automated car wash as I don't trust them not to damage the car or to do a half decent job.
skyscraper101
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Have to say I loved them as a kid. Still do tbh.
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
I guess a bunch more automated industries must be dead, or never got off the ground in the first place.
For all the talk, almost all the automation that has come along in the last 50 years has just been shuffling 0's and 1's, and a bit of warehouse automation.
Haulage, retail and farming are all beset by labour shortages rather than the reverse. No one in 1960 would have predicted this.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Street View shows this one with an 'attended service' sign in December 2021
It's in Wainfleet, which is a few miles inland of Skegness.
I've not been there for a while, so don't know if it's still there.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
The only time I've ever had one damage a car was when I decided to turn on the stereo half way through and it put the aerial up.
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skyscraper101
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Blimey, you'd feel a bit nervous living above all that flammable petrol. eh
weltweit
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I tend to look for a human till at my local Morrisons, I usually have between 30 - 40 quids worth and there is no way I am going to scan all that myself. However I have a bit of a natter with the checkout operator, can't have that with a scab till! Often I find myself in a queue for an operator I nattered with the week previously which is nice.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you're nearly as antique as sasaferrato, just his junior by perhaps 200 years
weltweit
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The thing about scab tills is that they are a precursor to the adoption o robotics and AI more widely in society.
Scab tills take the money out of a potential workers pockets, and the extra profit goes to the shareholders of the supermarket.
So when AI replaces people's jobs and people can chose to do other things, where will the excess profits go and who will pay the individuals so they have a viable income to do these "other things?
Scab tills take the money out of a potential workers pockets, and the extra profit goes to the shareholders of the supermarket.
So when AI replaces people's jobs and people can chose to do other things, where will the excess profits go and who will pay the individuals so they have a viable income to do these "other things?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
And that's why we need a Universal Basic Income since robots won't buy any of the stuff they're churning out.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I take Mrs SFM to the auto carwash as a cheap alternative to Alton Towers
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Open the windows for a free ticket to Waterworld.
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
How much are they these days?
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Round here, you can have the basic wash for about £2.50. Bargain
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
Round here, you can have the basic wash for about £2.50. Bargain
That’s pretty good.
I looked for auto-washers near me and the machinery in the pics looked very like Eastern European immigrants.
I think Google’s “are you a robot” software is on the blink.
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