Just watched a chain restaurant employees do their hourly picture taking of the store to send off to corporate through a locked down tablet. I asked them about it. Turns out corporations are now using tablets and Ai to manage stores. Holy shit
This doesn’t make any sense… why would they have an employee walking around with a tablet instead of just slightly beefing up the already in place security surveillance system?
slingstone@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Now you don’t even have a human manager on-site with whom you could reason who is familiar with the facts on the ground, I guess. No possibility of the workers being able to advance, too, possibly.
Techno-feudalism is turning out to be just as awful as any of the dystopian visions we’ve seen from writers over the past few decades, but it’s also awful in new, unique ways.