My company is hiring several hundred new workers, and today they came in for a pre-employment basic skills class, designed to show them what a day of putting screws in metal is like. It helps them see if they really want to work for us, and if they’re the sort of person who says “Fuck this, I’m outta here” after a couple of hours of manual labor.
They’re set up RIGHT ACROSS THE SHOP from where we’re teaching the robot to do robot tricks, and you KNOW some of them are all “I bet TOMORROW we get to play with the ROBOTS!”
And I’m smiling at their inevitable disappointment, because I’m a terrible person.
