…okay, so I’ve worked a bunch of crappy jobs over the years from boiler room “sales” jobs to a 3rd party delivery driver for the largest company in the world…
…in “sales” roles, the sales “manager” would “buy a list” and tell us to “get ‘er done” while not having made a cold call themselves in 15 years, if ever…
….the “lists” would be awful. In fact one of my running jokes was the mofo’s who sold the lists were worse criminals than the mafia. If you bought bootleg liquor from the mafia, you might go blind but it would get you f’d up…
…so where did this leave me? I spent a large portion of my day searching for contacts on websites and scrubbing bad data. I was called a “slacker” because I would throw on headphones to listen to music while I did the unglamourous labor of finding good contact info…
…as a delivery driver I used an app that was more broken than accurate. I often thought that the app was just collecting data so the robots could take over. My job was considered “unskilled” and something “any idiot could do.” IDK, the turnover rate was something like 200%. That is to say you were a greybeard vet if you lasted 6 months (or maybe just desparate and unemployable elsewhere…)
…there’s a lot of “micro decisions” to be made in a delivery. Is the package safely out of sight? There are porch pirates that follow vans and grab and go but a driver was making a guess whether the package was visible from the street. The more ghetto the area, the more due dilligence was needed. If enough packages got lifted, the driver would get in trouble…
…so can AI do the sh!t work jobs I’ve thrown away years of my life doing? I think that if AI was to make sales calls, it would be highly ineffective as most of the time would be them calling “bad numbers” and pitching the work people in an organization. Many sales “managers” have no clue on the pitfalls I would encounter daily or the time it took to “fix the list.” And onto delivery, funny how an engamaneer who never delivered a package in their life can design an app that makes things more difficult rather than less. I suppose AI could be baby sat by workers who would use that to build lists and then call but AI can’t just replace those workers.
I predict we will see a few huge disasters in the next few years. Perhaps on the scale of the Exxon Valdez….
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