New day, New job, Supposed to be a great day!
Woke up today, and started getting ready to head out the door. This was a change for me, being over the last two years I never had to leave the house. Today was the day I went down to officially start a new job, the only step needed to be completed today was to simply pick a shift.
Well, knowing I was looking for a specific shift, I arrived early, actually I was the 3rd person in line, being it was first come first serve. Knowing the hours my wife is working, and thinking I could aim to get a schedule that would be close to hers.
Waiting was over!
It was finally my turn to go in and pick a schedule. I was handed a sheet that listed all the available start times, and selected days off ...
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I looked at the options given me. I was startled by the lack of any real time off of work! I looked at the HR specialist, kind afraid to ask, but I did anyway, "Is this a joke?"
His brief answer was to the point, "The position you are being hired for is filled by robots mainly, so you must work better than them if you want to keep your job!"
I said, "guess that will work for me."
Pondering Life In Customer Service!
After returning home, I started looking at what it would be like to be working in customer service. There are many different people out there with extremely different views on what their personal experiences have been while working in customer service. I started reading both good and bad stories from different people. Then it hit me, I was going to be doing the job just like the lady in Office Space.
Started wondering how many jobs robots are doing
Seems as though I will really truly be doing work as a robot. Well, as it just goes to show robots are starting to replace humans even in the department stores. Seems as though being human is starting to be a bit of an antique. As we humans age and are replaced by robots... Will the build things similar to zoos to cage us in so they can observe us? What will we do with our time if we have been replaced by robots?
Feeling Scared
I decided I needed to look more into the training I would be receiving as a new robot trainee. Looks like this new job, working in a call center for warranties' is not going to be fun at all. I found a few different things training would be like, this one seems to have done the best job of showing how training would be.
Training
Well, now that I have this job, I started to realize I am going to have to relearn how to do things. Training is going to be 3 weeks in the class room, I guess learning how life is going to be as a robot! Followed by 2 additional weeks where we are working as the robot in the customer service field. after those 5 brief weeks we will be completely on our own.
Guess we are not just making robots we are training people to become robots.