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> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Nate Duehr
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:36 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE]: RFID zapper
> 
[...]
> But... along those lines... all of these large big-box retailers have
> dumbed down their front-end checkers so much and dehumanized their
jobs
> so much, that they really don't have much interest in answering your
> questions, and they CERTAINLY don't care if you have comments for
> management.

All of them?  One is notoriously good to employees.  So much so they get
dissed by "Wall Street" for over paying their employees relative to the
industry.  And yet they remain highly profitable.

> They just want to keep their heads down and be IGNORED by their
> management... a sure sign they're being pretty abused these days.  And
> then they replace them with machines.
> 
> I'd rather the locals have a job rather than the machine engineers
> somewhere else in the country, overall it's better for our local
> economy... but all I can do is choose to go to the human checker to
> "vote" on that one.

There are many that understand the difference between the local and
global economy: saving a few cents to buy non-locally often costs more
in the long run.

But when some do and some don't - the savings favor those that don't.

Ah a tangled web we weave ... 



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