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Say you want some experience running a coffee shop or
serving
people coffee or running a restaurant cafe, you can turn up at
this warehouse and begin working straight away.
Imagine a warehouse converted into a large coffee shop and
restaurant.
You can turn up at this workshop and just begin
working a
shift.
You watch a short informational video about hygiene and how
to
do the job and you can begin working right away.
Employment contracts are handled by app and pay too.
You can arrive as a customer and after 15 minutes you could
have a job and be working there.
Brontitall
https://academickid...Guide_to_the_Galaxy
A civilization destroyed by footwear. [8th of 7, Apr 07 2020]
Workhouse
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse
Not sure if this is the same as your idea... [sninctown, Apr 08 2020]
[link]
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So this is a training scheme ? |
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Yes. Rather than taking weeks to get a job, you can get a
job in 15 minutes. On the day. |
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Do you live on this website Eighth? |
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We monitor all of the web, constantly. Is this not obvious ? |
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How is this a "job" ? Is the warehouse a real, permanent coffee shop, or merely a training venue ? |
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How does this differ from normal Mom-and-Pop store recruitment with on-the-job training ? |
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WIBNI. There are reasons for the time-consuming and annoying recruitment methods employers use. "here's an idea, just hire anyone off the streets" isn't a solution. |
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// "here's an idea, just hire anyone off the streets" isn't a solution // |
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Yet it seems to be the S.O.P. for political parties ? |
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No wonder they're so useless. |
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// Do you live on this website Eighth? // |
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The demands on the Cube and hence all the little Borg
within are at a(n) historic low. With the current nanite
strike and space dust jamming the gears they just
remain in orbit, watching and monitoring, chortling and
gloating at the human Petri dish. Trump's election? That
was them as was Common Core math, melting icecaps
and Kim Jong Un's haircut. COVID is just the latest. |
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// Do you live on this website Eighth? // |
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Funniest comment I've heard in a long while. |
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The idea is rather redundant with all job training sites that
have simulated workplace set-ups. |
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Maybe a teensy-weensy nudge, but the overwhelming force of mass human stupidity pretty much does everything without any input from us at all. It's more fun to watch the weird, self-destructive randomness at work. |
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Go ahead, humanity, beat yourselves up. Yet again. Why should we bother to build, for example, a Shoe Shop Intensifer Ray ? <link> So much easier to just wait... |
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You'll never get to be a galaxy-dominating aggressive collective hegemonizing swarm with an attitude like that, [poc]. You need to learn a modicum of self-control, rather than being focussed on instant gratification. Be told. |
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Actually quite a neat idea in some ways. [+] We don't need
any more gig-economy pseudo-jobs [-]. Overall neutral. |
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But such "pseudo-jobs" - labour by the hour, or day- have always existed, an always will exist; attempts to engineer them out of an economic system will always ultimately fracture and destroy that system. |
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Markets are highly imperfect phenomena, but are evolutionary. The blunt axe of natural selection will always crush the fingers of those that try to tamper. |
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"Fairness" is a human concept, or rather a conceit. To the antelope whos newborn calf is eaten by a leopard, the world is very unfair, but leopards do not make moral choices. They kill in order to eat, that they and their offspring can survive. A useful definition of a leopard is "an animal that eats other animals". It's a leopard; that's what leopards do. If it didn't, it wouldn't be a leopard, but something else. |
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The mistake humans make is thinking that, having invented ethics and morality, they can be applied without eventual, inevitable forceful rebalancing by the "laws of nature". |
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Any reversal of entropy can only ever be local and temporary, at the expense of another system. You can save a rabbit from a fox, but on average rabbits will be eaten by foxes. If you save all the rabbits, foxes will die, and/or will predate other species. You also then have to protect and feed an ever increasing number of rabbits; it's what rabbits do. |
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The Universe is a vast, mechanistic, uncaring system in which you are utterly insignificant. Nothing you do has any meaning outside the tiny circle of firelight in which you crouch, surrounded by infinite, impenetrable darkness; very soon you will cease to exist, a victim of bleak, pitiless indifference, and all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. There is no hope, no meaning, no redemption. You are doomed. There is nothing. |
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That message brought to you by our programme sponsor BorgCo, your friendly evil hegemonizing swarm. And now over to Kevin for tomorrow's weather.... |
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaand always look on the bright side ... |
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The trouble with the "gig economy" is that some people
seem to think it will provide them with a steady job and
income. Which is the complete opposite to the whole point
of the "gig economy". |
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The gig economy, the modern equivalent of the depression
era
sight of men hanging around street corners & factory gates
in
big mobs hoping to to be picked by employers for a few
hours
of work or if they were lucky a whole day by employers
who'd
arrive with a truck to pick up some men. |
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For which they'd be paid an hourly rate far below any
reasonable cost of living, or as often as not below
subsistence. |
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Subsistence of course not being 'living' as such, but merely
existing. |
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The answer there is to leave Swindon, shirley ? |
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// The Universe is a vast, mechanistic... You are doomed. // |
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Quotes like this would make great demotivational posters
for office spaces. |
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Yes, they sell well. We do discounts for quantity; you can pick 'n mix, and save on shipping & handling. We do a range of finishes too, and you can have them framed, or rolled and then just tape them up or frame them yourself. The framed ones have a razor blade and a pack of barbiturates clipped to the back. |
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Much cheaper than severance; just put a couple in the office of your target, and wait a few days. |
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//leave Swindon, shirley// |
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We have told her but she just won't listen. |
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Ah, a masochist. Some people can't be helped, and indeed don't want to be. They're only happy when they're miserable. |
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"Swindon - where old people go to practice for being dead". |
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> WIBNI. There are reasons for the time-consuming and
annoying recruitment methods employers use. "here's an
idea, just hire anyone off the streets" isn't a solution. |
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It is a solution if you can vet people in a short period of
time. Recruitment is too complicated, too slow and too
expensive. Just hire people willing to work. |
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//"just hire anyone off the streets" isn't a solution// |
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Depends, for some low skill jobs & occupations it's an
excellent solution with next to no hiring overheads. |
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Especially
if
you have enough unemployed people on the streets. |
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// Just hire people willing to work. // |
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So, pick anybody from your warehouse, and they'll have the skill and experience in embedded J++ that you need to push your project, and can be instantly productive with no runup time ? |
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Works for burger-flippers, coffee peons and shelf stackers. For coders, mechanical engineers, medics, stock traders ... maybe not so well. |
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The selection procedures for anyone with more than a minimal skills set are a necessary cost. Consider: |
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You need someone to write embedded code for a portable device. You hire the first person that applies. They turn out to lack the capabilities you need. You hire the next person who applies. They turn out to lack the capabilities you need. Repeat ... |
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How long to find the right applicant by this method ? What is the cost to the project, given that while you are cycling through, you are (a) paying for a non-productive worker, (b) not progressing the project, and (c) consuming resource (admittedly relatively small) to constantly repeat the hiring process. It's actually very inefficient, compared to the normal sequence of identifying suitable candidates and then selecting the best fit "first time". |
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I should qualify that this idea is for |
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> ... burger-flippers, coffee peons and shelf stackers. |
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And not job roles that require expertise. |
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//I should qualify that this idea is for > ... burger-flippers,
coffee peons and shelf stackers// |
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For shelf stackers (having performed the task) I can
confidently state that for any semi educated semi
intelligent organisms with at least the literacy of the
average seven year old all you need is a few short
sentences of
instruction that
can be delivered in under two minutes. |
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Show them the
stockroom, show them the shelf & they're good to go. |
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So your warehouse is a complete waste of time & resources
for that
particular employment demographic. |
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I couldn't speak to burger flippers or coffee pourers (having
no experience of those tasks in a commercial environment)
but imagine it's much the same with them. |
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In short, anyone who's completed a secondary school
education
simply
won't experience any worthwhile qualitative benefit from
your
warehouse. |
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So I presume this idea is intended for trained chimps rather
than people? |
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Which is baked anyway. it's called a primary school
education. |
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Actually, trained chimps demonstrate significantly better abilities than most new graduates, who have forgotten what they learned at primary school... |
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That is the third-strangest way of recruiting programming talent we've ever heard of. |
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//For shelf stackers (having performed the task) I can confidently state that for any semi educated semi intelligent organisms with at least the literacy of the average seven year old all you need is a few short sentences of instruction that can be delivered in under two minutes.// |
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My dad used to say that the amount of experience a person had at a job was the amount of time that it took to learn. |
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Not wishing to cast aspersions at anyone's dad but your dad
was perhaps not
really thinking things through very clearly. |
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For a simple job like shelf stacking if one found themselves
in the position of still learning how to do it after less than a
day I
would be
forced to conclude there was something seriously wrong
with one, because it's not even something you should even
need
to 'learn'. |
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You stack it on the shelf neatly, in the spot allocated for the
product on the shelf plan, labels out &
with oldest dates in front. |
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That's it, there's
nothing else to it, & those are just instructions not
learning. |
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There are no skills to 'learn' any child hasn't already
mastered
b4 starting primary school. |
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Except reading, which they should have mastered in
primary school. |
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//Accept reading// I have and - occasionally - writing, also. |
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//A skill is defined as something that needs special training// |
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Yes, that was my point, please tell me you didn't miss that. |
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So, maybe, the aptitude warehouse, to give a smorgasbord of trials for a little cash and CV bottom line. |
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In the interest of saving time, perhaps
[chronological] might wish to temporarily post a
resume? Would be off-topic (not an idea; more of a
"recipe" for a certain future employee) but it might
help readers better understand the context for these
recent ideas. |
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'Ware workhouse! </Dickens> |
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// post kindergarden you have ready-to-go fighter pilots. // |
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Close; before finishing primary school, you will have some very capable potential drone pilots, familiar with complex computer games, having fast reactions, and most importanty an incompletey developed moral sense which allows them to kill people at a distance with no subsequent pangs of conscience since their actions are efficienty decoupled from any meaningful reality. Thus the human race progresses... |
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//post kindergarden you have ready-to-go fighter pilots// |
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Not at all what my posts imply, they imply that post primary
school you will have ready to go
shelf stackers, which according to [chron] is what this idea is
supposed to provide, making the idea completely pointless. |
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So, a primary school in a warehouse ? |
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Naturally, more floor space allowing for easier social
distancing, to be overly safe only one desk every forty square
feet. |
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The teacher
will need a public address system to be heard at the back &
every student will be issued with binoculars so they can see
the blackboard, we already put our bid in to supply those. |
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