Does your job give you little satisfaction?
Does it fail to challenge you in any way?
Do you have a boatload of benefits?
Do you think the union gives you job security?
Sooner or later somebody finds a better way, one that grows business and cuts costs. Even the government is doing it these days.
But in February, the city provided her with help. An automated ranger, if you will, now dispenses day fishing permits. It resembles a ticket machine you might have seen at a trolley stop.
“You press a button for the number of tickets you want, and then you insert payment and get a slip. It prints the date and time,” Felchlin said.
Before the machine was installed, Miramar Reservoir was closed on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. But now the public has the opportunity to fish from shore seven days a week. Besides generating much-needed revenue, the automated ranger is also user-friendly.
Pretty scary huh? The government has figured out that you don’t actually need people to shuffle paper. Before long, they’ll discover that you don’t need paper, either.
So, has our poor ranger friend got a Plan B?
“Even if they programmed this to sell boat permits, they still need someone to issue boats,” Felchlin said.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on it, Lori. Haven’t you seen any of the latest car commercials, with all the fancy robots moving about? Sooner or later somebody is going to program one of them to stack boats. You’re better off studying to be a robot mechanic.
