some newly minted $15/hr earners are finding out that the new wage will disqualify them from govt benefits, so now they are asking for less hours
LOL
As a guy who repairs and maintains a wide variety of equipment, everything from Diesel engines, A/C, and some very high tech stuff, I can assure you, if there are humans involved anywhere in the process there will continue to be jobs.
I'm the guy between the design engineer and the people who are supposed to be operating and maintaining this stuff. I can assure you these jobs aren't going away, there are just fewer people with the skill set to do it.
Just a couple of observations.
1) Generally very few people will open the book, read the instructions or understand that there is a troubleshooting section or manual available. When asked recently where to find the procedure I was performing on some very sensitive equipment I had to reply "In the manual, it's that book you're sitting on."
2) We all like to blame the operators, but I have spent hours troubleshooting equipment only to discover the schematics were printing incorrectly, on another very recent occasion while testing for continuity within a cable again, the manual was wrong and the pin and socket points were printed 180 out.
So in my opinion they can bring in all of the automated systems they want to, they are going to have to find people with the skills to fix those systems. Finding the people to do that work is not going to be easy or cheap.
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