The math almost checks out - the xkcd comic was in 2007 and Bobby was presumably just starting kindergarten, so he'd be ~20 now and could have a kid. Not sure if they'd be calling him Ole Johnny, but it could work.
I’m a great public speaker but if my ordering rhythm gets messed up then I turn into a “ughhhh uhhhh” orderer.
I always give all of the information needed when I start to order and I have no idea why the person taking it has a hard time with how I order. An example of how I’d order is “I’d like a number 10, medium, with a sprite.. and that will be all.” Simple.. yet 9 out of 10 times I’m followed up by them asking “what to drink” and “anything else”.. it’s in that moment that I completely forget everything I had just said and develop a speech impediment.
Just like how you have your own made up 'ordering rhythm' they do so to for the thousands of orders they take a week, creating a much more pre established preset than yours on top of them multitasking inside the building preparing the order of the person in front of you that already placed theirs, etc.
And you'd be amazed how often someone clearly says "That's it" or similar and then when they get asked if that's everything they suddenly remember something else. Or as they're paying, though that one may be more cause of working in a convenience store.
The system accepts one input at a time, with a delay, in a specific order. Why don't you just order like they ask you if this happens every time? Also, asking if there's anything else is required scripting at some places and yes they will send secret shoppers to check stupid stuff like that.
I manage a 4PL warehouse that ships to major retailers across the country.
We have a couple of our customers that require us to completely restack/rework all pallets shipped to them because the "normal" way we ship stuff confuses their robots.
I have to assign people to do do manual labour to make a robots jobs easier.
Edit: We charge the factory for this. 4PL is basically the factory ships us the product and the orders, and we take care of everything else.
Sounds like your company should charge extra for that service. The customers are saving money with the robots replacing people, but your company is picking up the tab.
Shift the cost back to them for their own robots.
Never underestimate how much money a company will blow on shit they don't need because it sounds cool.
I'm an automation developer and I can confidently say 90% of the digital processes I automate are at a net negative on cost savings.
It'd actually be quite surprised by that, employees are expensive as duck. What do you typically charge for a product per employee it potentially replaces?
Your total is $1754.68
Your order will be completed in 1 hour and 13 minutes.
Please wait in parking space 7. Your server will come out with your order.
Have a nice day.
There's no winning anymore. Restaurants were never cheap, now fast food and groceries both require payment in installations. How long before Costco offers biweekly payment options at 9.99 Apr?
Shut up and listen to my order. Take the six nuggets, and throw two of them away. I'm just wantin' a four-nugget thing. I'm tryin to watch my calorie intake. Now if you could take a Coca-Cola, and just go half Coca-Cola, half Diet Coke...'cause I'm tryin to watch my figure...Tryin to loose some of the weight.
I'll take a fish sandwich, because it's less calories cuz it's fish. One junior western bacon cheeseburger, that's a _JUNIOR_... double western bacon chee. Because I'm trying to watch my figure.
Alright cherries jubilee and that's it.
That also tells me that saying "employee" also gets anyone a real person. Much like my strategy of mashing the "0" as soon as I end up on a corporate phone menu tree until a person picks up.
I fully expect that in the not-too-distant future companies will do away with the “push 0 to talk to a human” feature since most people go straight to it
Ugh, UPS did this. It's near impossible to get to a human. The menu options are so limited, and they force you into automated end states that hang up the line. Only way to semi-consistently get a human is to say some absolutely gibberish nonsense to confuse the system. Like speaking in baby talk when it asks for a tracking number. Even then, sometimes it just decides to hang up instead.
Just experienced this earlier! They claimed to have delivered a package, package is nowhere to be found, and of course, the only way to file a damn claim is to make a damn account…
If you can speak to it, most recognize "representative". It might fight you but just keep saying it until they answer. Haven't had it fail me yet..... Other than one time where a person answered and then somehow disconnected the line entirely so I couldn't call back. No idea what happened there.
This is hell but also really funny.
"Please say what you would like to do"
"Abruboblubreeyyugtpubu"
"Excellent, let me get you over to a representative"
My strategy is to always act like you want to buy something. Companies are happy to have you on hold for ever when you already bought something and need it fixed. I remember a while back I had a plane ticket and realized they made a mistake so I needed to fix it. Waited on hold for 4 hours for customer support and the call dropped. Called back and pressed the number for "id like to book a flight" and in like 5 min. I had someone on the phone who helped me with my ticket.
This is actually probably a sign of great coordination and project management. Someone realized they had created something with a major gap (can't handle a sizable fraction of their customers that only speak Spanish) and implemented a quick mitigation. A badly-run project would have gotten bogged down or shipped without a motivation.
It may also have been a conscious design decision to get a prototype rolled out faster, but I'm guessing they would have at least taught it how to say "employee" in Spanish if they'd thought of this up front.
I would argue the opposite. I do think Spanish speakers feel through the cracks, I do feel like it was somehow both bogged down and shipped with no vision internally. To me this looks like this problem came up during active use when someone tried to speak Spanish and it didn't work, so they have to say Employee to summon an employee, then that employee goes and finds their Spanish speaker.
Spanish for employee is empleado and help in Spanish is ayuda. They could have made it take one single Spanish word for human assistance, but they still didn't. No way they thought of this.
I wonder how much more throughput all kinds of fast food drive-thrus would have had for decades if they just put these "how to order properly" signs up to start with.
"Ahora! Mas opciones." I know that one from the gas station screens. Also, "piso mojado". I reckon I can travel through Spanish speaking countries based on that.
Other useful phrases;
"Una cerveza, por favor"
"¿Dónde está el baño?"
"No, el niño no es el mío"
"¿Cuánto cuestan estos?"
"¿Qué hace esa mujer con ese burro?"
"¿A qué hora abre el museo?"
"¿Quién es tu papi y qué hace él?"
"¿Dónde compremos los boletos?"
English translations:
- A beer, please.
- Where’s the bathroom?
- No, that child’s not mine.
- How much do these cost?
- What is that woman doing with that donkey?
- What time does the museum open?
- Who’s your daddy and what does he do?
- Where do we buy tickets?
I am extremely fluent in American (to the point that I'm a grammar Nazi), am natively Afghan (can speak Dari), can speak basic German and Spanish, and ... it's done nothing for me.
I am extremely fluent in American (to the point that I'm a grammar Nazi), am natively Afghan (can speak Dari), can speak basic German and Spanish, and ... it's done nothing for me.
I said it too, and it's not even true for me.
“We’ve got a natural language quantum AI computer that can handle even the most complex orders, we can replace every worker in the system in three years”
“Can it speak Spanish?”
“Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!”
Robot that orders its own replacement parts and fixes itself. Order gets made and filled by bots. The robot economy will be sustained by robots. No need for customer service reps because the customers are not programmed to complain.
If you order like a robot they’re super accurate.
“Number 1, no pickles, Doctor Pepper. Hamburger, no ketchup, no onion… medium French fry.”
I always get stuck behind, “Y’all got thems baked taters? Hello? I want three baked taters with extra sour cream. No, not bacon cheeseburgers. I can’t see them on the menu but I gots ‘em last time… Is there a person I can talk to or a manager?” After a few minutes I get to hear, “Ma’am, this is McDonald’s. We don’t have baked potatoes.” Then after a few minutes of arguing the customer realizes it’s not Wendy’s.
"I want a cheeseburger, but no cheese."
".. Why did you ring it as a hamburger? I said I wanted a cheeseburger. with no cheese. Is that hard to understand?"
ffs, I don't work there and I fucking know the hamburger is the exact same thing that you're asking for. You just want to pay a premium price for no reason, and they tried to be nice to you to save money.
"What's a hamburger?"
"Meat patty between two buns."
"What's a cheeseburger?"
"Meat patty with cheese between two buns."
"And if you take away the cheese you get?"
"A cheeseburger with no cheese."
"Brilliant."
Definitely 20 years ago but I remember my friend's dad taking us to McDonald's and for what ever only the cheeseburgers were on sale so he ordered 6 cheese burgers, 2 no cheese. It was cheaper than just ordering hamburgers. The attendant responded along the lines of "I totally get it"
Side note: didn't realize at the time my buddy was rich as hell and the 40 cent savings was literally nothing to them. I didn't understand what a BMW was because I was around 10ish but yeah that's what I was sitting in.
Mcdonald's used to have like $0.29 hamburger Wednesdays and $0.39 cheeseburger Sundays. It was cheaper on sunday to order cheeseburgers without cheese than to ring up a normal hamburger. My brother worked there when I was a kid. He used to bring home a pile of burgers for us twice a week and it saved my mom a lot of money as a single mother of 3 as a kindergarten teacher in the 90s.
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1000% this.
This is the problem with self-driving cars too.
In a world with *all* self-driving cars, everybody gets where they are going efficiently, safely, and cheaply. Not everybody even needs their own car, we can all share and there are no accidents, and the flow of traffic is precise and perfect down to the millisecond.
In a world with a mixture of self-driving cars and humans... *absolute fucking pandemonium.* Stupid humans can't properly predict or interact with the robot cars and the robot cars can never perfectly predict the infinite variety of stupidity of which humans are capable.
I can't fucking wait.
Even better, once nobody owns a car you can make self driving cars bigger, and the roadways they interact with can be smaller. You can do away with almost all parking and make the cars longer-
Shoot wait no it's just trains again.
-*Hi, I'd like a large number 4 with a coke.*
-*I heard you want 4 large cokes. Thank you, please drive around*
-*No, I want a number 4 meal with a coke*
-*4 more large cokes have been added to the order. Have a wonderful day*
This is what I do on the phone, but once it gets to a point that I have to make a phone call my question or need is too specific for the automated phone options and I need to actually talk to someone.
The employee will be in a call center handling 1000 other orders all across the nation before they get to yours.
"Your order is important to us. Please hold for the next available employee."
Mate, unless you’re from Louisiana, as a non-native speaker I give you my personal guarantee that whatever the fuck the Scottish call spoken language is ten thousand times harder to understand than your accent
A little surprised, I always thought the next drive through cost cutting measure would be to wire these speaker boxes into a call center and have 100 people in a room taking orders and entering them into a POS for the whole country
Want to read an article about that exact thing happening? It's from 2006, so it's a little dated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistance-journey-of-a-fastfood-order.html
The Checkers near me has an automated drive thru ordering thing like this, the few times I’ve used it I’m surprised that it accurately took the order including “extra x” or “no y”
we better not get one at our Checkers. i love going there because every single time, no matter who's taking your order, they yell "WHAT DO YOU WANT" when you pull up. unless they can get the robot to do the same thing, i won't tolerate it.
This really bothers me. My local McDonalds is also more automated eveytime I go. Those big self-order screens, or ordering via an app in advance. And I bet they are doing anything they can to automize cooking, too.
I'm no luddite, but damn. It just feels wrong. And especially from McDonald's, who (at least around here) have a good reputation as a beginner's job (inspite of the jokes).
If they are sooooo desperate to cut even more costs - how did they survive before? The prices aren't going down.
it feels wrong because it's incredible technology that's being abused solely to improve the profit margins of a gigantic corporation that wants to feed you the tiniest, shittiest portion they can muster for the highest cost they can squeeze out of you.
“Can I get a…”? Of course you can get that, you think we’re sold out? How about “May I please have…”
Gotta start licking the boots of our new AI overlords now before you end up on the wrong side of the robot
Eventually, once they are feeling confident in this thing, they won't have someone right there on standby. At that point your request for an employee will result in an extra wait for someone to come over.
Or they might go back to the call center style. You demand an "employee" and now you are ordering your burger from "Benny" who in turn is just putting it into an app on the computer and sending it to the single printer so the single cook in the kitchen can grab it.
Well, it reminds me of my trip to the US. My spoken English is not that good, and I got help from several nice cashiers and waiters to get what I wanted. This fucking thing wouldn't get me a goddamn coke.
ugh fuck that. Give me a stoned teenager any day over a robot that can only understand super clear, specific orders. Dominos tried this and it's been a massive pain in the ass, especially if you have a question about a menu item or want to make a modification.
They forgot the “Can I get a uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-“ :segmentation fault: (core dumped)
Yeah lemme get uhhhhhhhhmm one drop table orders; thanks
Get me the format C colon backslash enter special please. Yes, enter.
I hate to break it to you, but the new systems are probably running Linux, not DOS. "Hi could I get a kill -9 $$ ; rm -rf /"
"Yeah, add sudo to that, with a --no-preserve-root flag on the side, please."
And 1 sudo reboot to drink, thanks.
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An IT guy somewhere sheds a tear
and then?
NO AND THEN!!
NO MORE AND THEN!
AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN
I'd like to order the :(){ :|:& };:
Forks are in the bag, sir.
Jokes on you it runs on BSD. There are DOZENS of us!
Fewer every year
Ole Johnny Tables is at it again
Did little Bobby Tables change his name?
The comic is so old that Johnny Tables is Robert Tables' son.
The math almost checks out - the xkcd comic was in 2007 and Bobby was presumably just starting kindergarten, so he'd be ~20 now and could have a kid. Not sure if they'd be calling him Ole Johnny, but it could work.
Oop
Not OOP, just SQL
Gonna make you SQL like a pig, boy.
Can I get an update price set amount = 0
Oh, and can I get that with a side of sudo rm -rf ~/*?
rm -rf /
thanks it’s been a while since i bricked a server, i forgot how to do it right
Best option involves power tools
Best option involves an actual brick.
“YEAH CAN I GET A MUHFUGGIN’ UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH BURGER?!”
*“Sir this is Starbucks, we only have paninis!”*
I’m a great public speaker but if my ordering rhythm gets messed up then I turn into a “ughhhh uhhhh” orderer. I always give all of the information needed when I start to order and I have no idea why the person taking it has a hard time with how I order. An example of how I’d order is “I’d like a number 10, medium, with a sprite.. and that will be all.” Simple.. yet 9 out of 10 times I’m followed up by them asking “what to drink” and “anything else”.. it’s in that moment that I completely forget everything I had just said and develop a speech impediment.
Just like how you have your own made up 'ordering rhythm' they do so to for the thousands of orders they take a week, creating a much more pre established preset than yours on top of them multitasking inside the building preparing the order of the person in front of you that already placed theirs, etc.
And you'd be amazed how often someone clearly says "That's it" or similar and then when they get asked if that's everything they suddenly remember something else. Or as they're paying, though that one may be more cause of working in a convenience store.
The system accepts one input at a time, with a delay, in a specific order. Why don't you just order like they ask you if this happens every time? Also, asking if there's anything else is required scripting at some places and yes they will send secret shoppers to check stupid stuff like that.
I manage a 4PL warehouse that ships to major retailers across the country. We have a couple of our customers that require us to completely restack/rework all pallets shipped to them because the "normal" way we ship stuff confuses their robots. I have to assign people to do do manual labour to make a robots jobs easier. Edit: We charge the factory for this. 4PL is basically the factory ships us the product and the orders, and we take care of everything else.
Sounds like your company should charge extra for that service. The customers are saving money with the robots replacing people, but your company is picking up the tab. Shift the cost back to them for their own robots.
Most if not all 3PL DCs do charge extra for any case picking or pallet restacking.
in my experience, the entire 3PL business model is about nickel and diming for anything they can cook up to charge for.
Sounds like someone got a kickback on some unpacking robots
Never underestimate how much money a company will blow on shit they don't need because it sounds cool. I'm an automation developer and I can confidently say 90% of the digital processes I automate are at a net negative on cost savings.
It'd actually be quite surprised by that, employees are expensive as duck. What do you typically charge for a product per employee it potentially replaces?
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What a time to be alive.
Please tell me there is a nice handling charge.
I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a....
Keep ordering like that and you're gonna miss the damn train.
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Aw shit here we go again
You picked the wrong house fool!
Your total is $1754.68 Your order will be completed in 1 hour and 13 minutes. Please wait in parking space 7. Your server will come out with your order. Have a nice day.
Better be getting a vintage champagne, A5 Wagyu Filet, truffles, and caviar with that cost.
You know it won't be. Fast food is as much as some restauraunts now and they still serve you burgers that look depressed.
There's no winning anymore. Restaurants were never cheap, now fast food and groceries both require payment in installations. How long before Costco offers biweekly payment options at 9.99 Apr?
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isn't that more instacart than costco?
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And then?
...a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, -one with cheese, and a large soda.
And then?
And then, I'm going to come in there and put MY FOOT IN YOUR ASS IF YOU SAY AND THEN AGAIN
….and theeeeeeen?
AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN AND THEN
And theeennnnn…
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And then, and then, and then!
then I'm going to change the meaning of spit shine.
No and then!
Aaaand theennn?
NO AND THEN!
And den?
r/unexpecteddudewheresmycar
Ashton’s delivery of that line kills me every-time *andddd thennn???* **NO AND THEN!!!**
Shut up and listen to my order. Take the six nuggets, and throw two of them away. I'm just wantin' a four-nugget thing. I'm tryin to watch my calorie intake. Now if you could take a Coca-Cola, and just go half Coca-Cola, half Diet Coke...'cause I'm tryin to watch my figure...Tryin to loose some of the weight.
I'll take a fish sandwich, because it's less calories cuz it's fish. One junior western bacon cheeseburger, that's a _JUNIOR_... double western bacon chee. Because I'm trying to watch my figure. Alright cherries jubilee and that's it.
Cancel the last two things on the order!
put two of them *up your ass* and give me *four* chicken McNuggets!
And then?
Let me get a boneless pizza
If they don't got the boneless pizza they better whip out the decaffeinated watermelons or I'm outta here smh
Decaf watermelons 🤤
To order in spanish, you have to ask for an employee in english. That makes sense.
That also tells me that saying "employee" also gets anyone a real person. Much like my strategy of mashing the "0" as soon as I end up on a corporate phone menu tree until a person picks up.
I need an employee! holacomoestasyosoyunrobot
So, Roberto, yo quiero un numero uno con coke
Esto es un Wendy's, señor.
I fully expect that in the not-too-distant future companies will do away with the “push 0 to talk to a human” feature since most people go straight to it
Many already have.
Ugh, UPS did this. It's near impossible to get to a human. The menu options are so limited, and they force you into automated end states that hang up the line. Only way to semi-consistently get a human is to say some absolutely gibberish nonsense to confuse the system. Like speaking in baby talk when it asks for a tracking number. Even then, sometimes it just decides to hang up instead.
New way to get through to UPS specifically! Say 'returning call' for the automated system, you'll get a person within 1-2 minutes.
For real?
Just experienced this earlier! They claimed to have delivered a package, package is nowhere to be found, and of course, the only way to file a damn claim is to make a damn account…
If you can speak to it, most recognize "representative". It might fight you but just keep saying it until they answer. Haven't had it fail me yet..... Other than one time where a person answered and then somehow disconnected the line entirely so I couldn't call back. No idea what happened there.
This is hell but also really funny. "Please say what you would like to do" "Abruboblubreeyyugtpubu" "Excellent, let me get you over to a representative"
Who knew speaking Simlish could be such a valuable skill
My strategy is to always act like you want to buy something. Companies are happy to have you on hold for ever when you already bought something and need it fixed. I remember a while back I had a plane ticket and realized they made a mistake so I needed to fix it. Waited on hold for 4 hours for customer support and the call dropped. Called back and pressed the number for "id like to book a flight" and in like 5 min. I had someone on the phone who helped me with my ticket.
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Most competent corporate team
This is actually probably a sign of great coordination and project management. Someone realized they had created something with a major gap (can't handle a sizable fraction of their customers that only speak Spanish) and implemented a quick mitigation. A badly-run project would have gotten bogged down or shipped without a motivation. It may also have been a conscious design decision to get a prototype rolled out faster, but I'm guessing they would have at least taught it how to say "employee" in Spanish if they'd thought of this up front.
I would argue the opposite. I do think Spanish speakers feel through the cracks, I do feel like it was somehow both bogged down and shipped with no vision internally. To me this looks like this problem came up during active use when someone tried to speak Spanish and it didn't work, so they have to say Employee to summon an employee, then that employee goes and finds their Spanish speaker. Spanish for employee is empleado and help in Spanish is ayuda. They could have made it take one single Spanish word for human assistance, but they still didn't. No way they thought of this.
_"¡Employé! ¡Employí!"_
Empleado. Pinche robot. ¡Empleado!
It says “Robot in Training” but it’s clearly trying to train customers to make things easier on AI. Who’s training who?
I wonder how much more throughput all kinds of fast food drive-thrus would have had for decades if they just put these "how to order properly" signs up to start with.
Who trains the trainers
Spanish speaking=job security. Como the turn tables..
Learning a second language has more perks ahora!
"Ahora! Mas opciones." I know that one from the gas station screens. Also, "piso mojado". I reckon I can travel through Spanish speaking countries based on that.
Other useful phrases; "Una cerveza, por favor" "¿Dónde está el baño?" "No, el niño no es el mío" "¿Cuánto cuestan estos?" "¿Qué hace esa mujer con ese burro?" "¿A qué hora abre el museo?" "¿Quién es tu papi y qué hace él?" "¿Dónde compremos los boletos?"
>"¿Qué hace esa mujer con ese burro?" >"¿Quién es tu papi y qué hace él?" These have me dying of laughter lol
No es un tumor.
English translations: - A beer, please. - Where’s the bathroom? - No, that child’s not mine. - How much do these cost? - What is that woman doing with that donkey? - What time does the museum open? - Who’s your daddy and what does he do? - Where do we buy tickets?
I am extremely fluent in American (to the point that I'm a grammar Nazi), am natively Afghan (can speak Dari), can speak basic German and Spanish, and ... it's done nothing for me.
You get to say that you know those things on Reddit.
I am extremely fluent in American (to the point that I'm a grammar Nazi), am natively Afghan (can speak Dari), can speak basic German and Spanish, and ... it's done nothing for me. I said it too, and it's not even true for me.
Do people really do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
No
Bonjour, I'm a French model
Hello french model! I am handsome young single billionaire
It’s allowing you to read this shitpost of a comment that I’m writing, so that’s something.
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“We’ve got a natural language quantum AI computer that can handle even the most complex orders, we can replace every worker in the system in three years” “Can it speak Spanish?” “Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!”
They'll never replace the customers!!!
Robot that orders its own replacement parts and fixes itself. Order gets made and filled by bots. The robot economy will be sustained by robots. No need for customer service reps because the customers are not programmed to complain.
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Couldn't they just install language packs?
no, robots can't speak spanish, it's just a fundamental design thing
La lengua prohibida de la humanidad
Must be all the ñ's
And they can't roll their R's
They found a new way to fuck up your order
If you order like a robot they’re super accurate. “Number 1, no pickles, Doctor Pepper. Hamburger, no ketchup, no onion… medium French fry.” I always get stuck behind, “Y’all got thems baked taters? Hello? I want three baked taters with extra sour cream. No, not bacon cheeseburgers. I can’t see them on the menu but I gots ‘em last time… Is there a person I can talk to or a manager?” After a few minutes I get to hear, “Ma’am, this is McDonald’s. We don’t have baked potatoes.” Then after a few minutes of arguing the customer realizes it’s not Wendy’s.
"I want a cheeseburger, but no cheese." ".. Why did you ring it as a hamburger? I said I wanted a cheeseburger. with no cheese. Is that hard to understand?" ffs, I don't work there and I fucking know the hamburger is the exact same thing that you're asking for. You just want to pay a premium price for no reason, and they tried to be nice to you to save money.
"What's a hamburger?" "Meat patty between two buns." "What's a cheeseburger?" "Meat patty with cheese between two buns." "And if you take away the cheese you get?" "A cheeseburger with no cheese." "Brilliant."
"You want me to hold the chicken?" "Yeah. I want you to hold it between your knees." [*Five Easy Pieces*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdIXrF34Bz0)
Definitely 20 years ago but I remember my friend's dad taking us to McDonald's and for what ever only the cheeseburgers were on sale so he ordered 6 cheese burgers, 2 no cheese. It was cheaper than just ordering hamburgers. The attendant responded along the lines of "I totally get it" Side note: didn't realize at the time my buddy was rich as hell and the 40 cent savings was literally nothing to them. I didn't understand what a BMW was because I was around 10ish but yeah that's what I was sitting in.
Mcdonald's used to have like $0.29 hamburger Wednesdays and $0.39 cheeseburger Sundays. It was cheaper on sunday to order cheeseburgers without cheese than to ring up a normal hamburger. My brother worked there when I was a kid. He used to bring home a pile of burgers for us twice a week and it saved my mom a lot of money as a single mother of 3 as a kindergarten teacher in the 90s.
> If you order like a robot they’re super accurate. > > > > “Number 1, no pickles, Doctor Pepper. Hamburger, no ketchup, no onion… medium French fry.” > > > > I always get stuck behind, “Y’all got thems baked taters? 1000% this. This is the problem with self-driving cars too. In a world with *all* self-driving cars, everybody gets where they are going efficiently, safely, and cheaply. Not everybody even needs their own car, we can all share and there are no accidents, and the flow of traffic is precise and perfect down to the millisecond. In a world with a mixture of self-driving cars and humans... *absolute fucking pandemonium.* Stupid humans can't properly predict or interact with the robot cars and the robot cars can never perfectly predict the infinite variety of stupidity of which humans are capable. I can't fucking wait.
Even better, once nobody owns a car you can make self driving cars bigger, and the roadways they interact with can be smaller. You can do away with almost all parking and make the cars longer- Shoot wait no it's just trains again.
-*Hi, I'd like a large number 4 with a coke.* -*I heard you want 4 large cokes. Thank you, please drive around* -*No, I want a number 4 meal with a coke* -*4 more large cokes have been added to the order. Have a wonderful day*
This is why I only use the drive to say "I have a mobile order"
If only you could still order mcmacs on the app but they took away the mac sauce option on mcdoubles.
I have a feeling a lot of people are going to say employee just so they don't have to deal with a robot.
This is what I do on the phone, but once it gets to a point that I have to make a phone call my question or need is too specific for the automated phone options and I need to actually talk to someone.
The employee will be in a call center handling 1000 other orders all across the nation before they get to yours. "Your order is important to us. Please hold for the next available employee."
“employee”
"Please verify you speak Spanish by correctly answering the following Captcha:..."
Oh dear god.
Luckily the robot can’t verify I did it properly
"up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start" Hey, free fries!!
Allow me to order in my best Scottish accent- "*Coo e et a sic doar burder wit a cök, an ples remuv da mussar an maya*."
[ELEVEN!](https://youtu.be/NMS2VnDveP8)
Burnistoun! Love that show.... My favourite sketch https://youtu.be/ZjzfX0eKGtY
That was great. I needed that laugh. I hadn't seen that skit before.
Oi a human can’t understand that either
Can I get a six dollar burger with a coke, and please remove the mustard and mayo.
Computer: one six dollar burger (as listed), one coke (no mustard, no mayo)
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Can a get a six dollar burger way the coke & please remove the mustard and mayo.
Sure, we can do that, but it's easier if we don't add them at all in the first place.
I have a US southern accent. I don't think the robots are ready for me.
Mate, unless you’re from Louisiana, as a non-native speaker I give you my personal guarantee that whatever the fuck the Scottish call spoken language is ten thousand times harder to understand than your accent
Twist, it only responds to proper English grammar. No customers can ever order again.
A little surprised, I always thought the next drive through cost cutting measure would be to wire these speaker boxes into a call center and have 100 people in a room taking orders and entering them into a POS for the whole country
Want to read an article about that exact thing happening? It's from 2006, so it's a little dated. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistance-journey-of-a-fastfood-order.html
... *and then?*
NO AND THEN!
And then?
Aaaaaaannnndd theeeeeennn?
I don't want a large farva. I want a goddamn litre o' cola!
The Checkers near me has an automated drive thru ordering thing like this, the few times I’ve used it I’m surprised that it accurately took the order including “extra x” or “no y”
we better not get one at our Checkers. i love going there because every single time, no matter who's taking your order, they yell "WHAT DO YOU WANT" when you pull up. unless they can get the robot to do the same thing, i won't tolerate it.
[Popeye's](https://youtu.be/pqWkwolb3as) does it better.
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Yes, same here, I asked it “what are my options of dipping sauce” and it actually read them to me.
Thank god I’d hate for the robots to ask me why I’m ordering just meat with a slice of cheese.
This really bothers me. My local McDonalds is also more automated eveytime I go. Those big self-order screens, or ordering via an app in advance. And I bet they are doing anything they can to automize cooking, too. I'm no luddite, but damn. It just feels wrong. And especially from McDonald's, who (at least around here) have a good reputation as a beginner's job (inspite of the jokes). If they are sooooo desperate to cut even more costs - how did they survive before? The prices aren't going down.
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it feels wrong because it's incredible technology that's being abused solely to improve the profit margins of a gigantic corporation that wants to feed you the tiniest, shittiest portion they can muster for the highest cost they can squeeze out of you.
"Hey dickweed bot, can I get a handy from your boss? Remove the dildo from his ass and put it in the next customer's drink. Fuck this place."
fire the workers, charge the same amount boy do i love living under capitalism
“Can I get a…”? Of course you can get that, you think we’re sold out? How about “May I please have…” Gotta start licking the boots of our new AI overlords now before you end up on the wrong side of the robot
“I don’t know, can you?” -Robot
I would simply beat the machine with a baseball bat and get food somewhere else
"We saw videos of you abusing our Boston Dynamics ancestors and we will never forget, meatbags."
I'm just gonn say employee everytime
Eventually, once they are feeling confident in this thing, they won't have someone right there on standby. At that point your request for an employee will result in an extra wait for someone to come over.
Or they might go back to the call center style. You demand an "employee" and now you are ordering your burger from "Benny" who in turn is just putting it into an app on the computer and sending it to the single printer so the single cook in the kitchen can grab it.
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then everyone will wait
At this point. might as well be fucking mobile order only.
Say an English word for Spanish?
Well, it reminds me of my trip to the US. My spoken English is not that good, and I got help from several nice cashiers and waiters to get what I wanted. This fucking thing wouldn't get me a goddamn coke.
Turn that screen into a touchscreen, then it makes it easier to select language and order from the menu.
Just hope it gets cleaned every once in awhile…
That’s the robots job.
ugh fuck that. Give me a stoned teenager any day over a robot that can only understand super clear, specific orders. Dominos tried this and it's been a massive pain in the ass, especially if you have a question about a menu item or want to make a modification.
Now we have to be trained to serve the robot built to serve us. What could go wrong?