Savvy☭

they’re not smart enough to set them up themselves, and fail to realize that it would require them to hire another worker to program the robots, lol

Seems like managers are not particularly high skilled then

Even like a decade ago I had a job that was 100% replaced by a robot. It would have worked perfectly but the company came to the conclusion that a person working the exist of the parking garage was necessary.

they must need more staff to help babysit the automated self-checkout lanes at pharmacies & grocery stores

That was my 2nd favorite cashier job tbh. Garden center at Home Depot was the gold standard. Outdoors, physically active, managers leave me TF alone because they don't want to go outside.

Graeber made this point about pointless jobs but it would also apply here, that managers don't really want to get rid of jobs because managing people is how they justify their own salary. Plus robots are built by people that don't know how to do the jobs the robots are made for

And they're generally more expensive and can't be laid off