Menial jobs that are still not done by machines

veryangryman

One that sticks in my craw... Chefs....

Bad enough that society makes celebrities out of the profession but surely the prep, cooking and serving could be automated to a greater extent than now.

I mean find out how to do it well, then get a robot to do it. More hours with the crack pipe could ensue. Result.

SpaceTime

I was quite surprised to find that recycling is still at least part sorted by hand because people are too lazy to reliably separate plastic, paper and cans.

punisher5112

Spray painting cars.
Truck,bus,taxi drivers

something to change my tv channel or type this without touching anything.

punisher5112

SpaceTime wrote: »

I was quite surprised to find that recycling is still at least part sorted by hand because people are too lazy to reliably separate plastic, paper and cans.

Sure I see people use recycle bins for normal rubbish and think it's ok if the plastic packaging they put in is still full of what they bought and so on.

Chucken

veryangryman wrote: »

One that sticks in my craw... Chefs....

Bad enough that society makes celebrities out of the profession but surely the prep, cooking and serving could be automated to a greater extent than now.

I mean find out how to do it well, then get a robot to do it. More hours with the crack pipe could ensue. Result.

You think being a chef is a menial job??

whupdedo

SpaceTime wrote: »

I was quite surprised to find that recycling is still at least part sorted by hand because people are too lazy to reliably separate plastic, paper and cans.

If they want me to go to the bother of recycling, then they can bloody well sort the ****in thing themselves :cool:

john the one

Why the he'll do I still risk getting ****e on my hand while wiping when I could just wipe down a machine who may or may not get my ****e on its parts after wiping me?

Tail Docker

Repairing broken machines. Thanks be to God.

veryangryman

Chucken wrote: »

You think being a chef is a menial job??

Cooking prep and serving is. If your restaurant has a set menu and x configurations of each food then I believe it is automatable.

To answer your question specifically... I think it's an overrated profession that can make ego maniacs out of people for imo no good reason.

Thoie

Vacuuming. We theoretically have the roomba, but it doesn't cope very well with long hair on carpet.

Why don't we have nanobots that collect dust and bring the dust back to designated receptacles?

I should be able to have a bed that automatically washes, dries and irons all the bedclothes every day so that I can get into a clean bed every night.

bboybaboy19

Seriously? A chef?

Someone has never cooked a meal in their life anyway.

Chucken

veryangryman wrote: »

Cooking prep and serving is. If your restaurant has a set menu and x configurations of each food then I believe it is automatable.

True. Sure all thats involved is flinging random stuff into a pot :rolleyes:

Robotic pooper scoopers.

Pablodreamsofnew

Putting the figs into fig rolls.

veryangryman

I forgot voting of course!

The Backwards Man

Teachers
Accountants
Solicitors
Architects
Doctors

punisher5112

Real robo cops need something here that can get some respect and if you dont you get punished.

Tail Docker

veryangryman wrote: »

Cooking prep and serving is. If your restaurant has a set menu and x configurations of each food then I believe it is automatable.

To answer your question specifically... I think it's an overrated profession that can make ego maniacs out of people for imo no good reason.

"The Mensch" is credited with popularising and promoting Chefs as he felt it was unfair that they could not afford to eat in the establishments they worked in. I tend to agree. My old lad was friends with a lot of top chefs and they work unbelievably hard and for crazy hours. I have a lot, lot of time for them.

SureYWouldntYa

I dread the day some of these jobs are done by machines, be no work left if every job that can be done by a machine is done by a machine

diomed

Car driving. I expect city and motorway driving will be controlled by central traffic computers, with the driver taking over on other roads.

stimpson

Project Management

hidinginthebush

SpaceTime wrote: »

I was quite surprised to find that recycling is still at least part sorted by hand because people are too lazy to reliably separate plastic, paper and cans.

But they all go into the same bin?

Fr_Dougal

veryangryman wrote: »

One that sticks in my craw... Chefs....

Bad enough that society makes celebrities out of the profession but surely the prep, cooking and serving could be automated to a greater extent than now.

I mean find out how to do it well, then get a robot to do it. More hours with the crack pipe could ensue. Result.

Jaysus...have you never eaten in a good restaurant?

veryangryman

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

I dread the day some of these jobs are done by machines, be no work left if every job that can be done by a machine is done by a machine

If automated enough, the machines would generate wealth for people to not need to work. Could then have more leisure time and higher standards of living. Those interested could have more time for research into useful things like the future of the planet and we wouldn't have to hail to the almighty dollar much.

Too preachy?

RDM_83 again

90% of Event Stewarding (if you don't hold a security licence) can be replaced by either a no entry/fire escape sign or a small fence

SilverScreen

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Teachers
Accountants
Solicitors
Architects
Doctors

I'm nearly sure a couple of teachers I had in school were robots.

Tail Docker

RDM_83 again wrote: »

90% of Event Stewarding (if you don't hold a security licence) can be replaced by either a no entry/fire escape sign or a small fence

Tell that to Slane. And that was a high fence...

AnonoBoy

Shelling prawns.

Nib

Footing turf.

refusetolose

punisher5112 wrote: »

Spray painting cars.
Truck,bus,taxi drivers

something to change my tv channel or type this without touching anything.

all these are practically available

SpaceTime

hidinginthebush wrote: »

But they all go into the same bin?

Because nowhere in the world has anyone been trustworthy enough to pre-sort them so they gave up and use 'single stream recycling'.

Vincent Vega

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

longhalloween

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Teachers
Accountants
Solicitors
Architects
Doctors

Actually accountants are top of the list for jobs that will be automated in 10 years.

Tail Docker

longhalloween wrote: »

Actually accountants are top of the list for jobs that will be automated in 10 years.

Not the creative ones though.

Trebor176

longhalloween wrote: »

Actually accountants are top of the list for jobs that will be automated in 10 years.

I better start looking at a career change so :rolleyes:

RDM_83 again

Tail Docker wrote: »

Tell that to Slane. And that was a high fence...

You can't actually touch anybody if you don't have a Licence from the PSA, well you can if they initiate contact but your not a bouncer, I think thats why you hear about security standing back from stuff at events, their probably not licenced staff and have to call on response teams to handle situations.

whupdedo

Blocklaying, what a cnut of a job, that's a job that should be automated

Tail Docker

whupdedo wrote: »

Blocklaying, what a cnut of a job, that's a job that should be automated

Readymix, and shuttering...

amacca

Anybody dislike machines doing things for them or enjoy doing things like cooking without thinking they'd like a machine to do it so they can spend more time masturbating?

Tail Docker

amacca wrote: »

Anybody dislike machines doing things for them or enjoy doing things like cooking without thinking they'd like a machine to do it so they can spend more time masturbating?

That you Mrs Doyle?

Frynge

longhalloween wrote: »

Actually accountants are top of the list for jobs that will be automated in 10 years.

This comment leads me to believe you have no idea of what an accountant actually does. Also the op has abviously never set foot inside of any commercial kitchen.

If it was a hotdog stand proprieter claiming they were a chef then maybe that could be automated.

Last_Minute

McDonalds staff aren't far from being replaced id say.

All the food is exactly the same with little new menu items being added. Maybe a machine could be used to flip burgers.

Soldiers, robot soldiers could fight instead - man less drones already exist.

Maybe fishermen. Just program a ship to track and locate the fish nests then drag nets and catch all the little fellas.

Willfarman

Sheep shearing

The Backwards Man

Nib wrote: »

Footing turf.

Never.

foxy farmer

Stripping and recovering silage pits.

barneysplash

As a robot, I resent the insinuation that we're taking all the jobs.
It's just that we're better at some things because we're happy to do menial jobs
for less pay.

I'm only paid 5 robo-credits a day to write provocative posts on boards.ie by my
human task masters. They make a fortune off the adverts journalists are exposed to
when lurking around the forums looking for stories to rip off.

rainbowtrout

Cleaning toilets in nightclubs.. or anywhere really

Tail Docker

I love all these "machines can do this" posts. Have a think on the machines you use, and just how breakable and fallible they are. And how much they rely on human supervision. Take a production machine - any you like. Say it makes "widgets", at a rate of 1000 an hour. And a fault occurs..and it bangs out 24,000 faulty widgets in a day, unless a person steps in and tweaks the thing. Or, there's a factory, and it uses a machine..that breaks and the whole factory grinds to a halt..and all the people stand there, waiting for the repairperson..happy days...

Tail Docker

barneysplash wrote: »

As a robot, I resent the insinuation that we're taking all the jobs. It's justify that we're better at some jobs because we're happy to do menial jobs


I'm only paid 5 robo-credits a day to write mildly offensive posts on boards.ie by my human task masters.

Machine error...call the repair man...

Oops69

Cleaning the toilet , there's non stick frying pans for years ffs !

jimgoose

It seems to me that the average civil servant could be replaced with a very small shell-script. I'd rate an accountant at a few hundred lines of C, in all fairness.