Automation Advocate Gifts

"We've just bought some software that's 20% better at being you for half the cost so we're letting you go."

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

"Question ... what is my motivation to ever leave this armchair?"

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

"You are one of my people, Collins, but you could be replaced by one of my computers."

"I'm not going to waste time cleaning my bathroom if in just a few years they'll have robots who'll be doing that for us."

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

"I think R&D is staging a coup!"

"Your job is to build an app that replaces you."

"Robots on the future, if you can't beat them you have to join them."

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

'Computers and Business Making Money'

'Who should I call first? 911 or the parking lot manager?'

"A robot was doing my job, but it quit."

"Uh-oh...it's starting to delegate work to me."

"It's been in self-drive mode all morning, maybe it's not programmed to recognise stop signs?"

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

"The self-driving division has taken over."

"The difference between us and them is...they can be reproduced by unskilled labour."

'I don't want to talk to any flunkies. Put me straight through to the computer.'

STRIP Hambone: Afraid of Robot Automation

"The Fad Herald cometh." "Wasn't he just here? Why's he back so soon?" "Hear ye, hear ye. The following is out: Human labor. The following are now in: Pizza delivery droids, Amazon delivery drones, and replacing all blue- and white-collar jobs with cheap, highly productive robot labor... ...robots who never sleep, never ask for a raise, and never complain about harassment... ...because they're too busy plotting the extinction of the meatbag species. We will isolate you. Alienate you from one

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

Employee of the Month

"I wonder if A.I. will inevitably become as tired and depressed as we are."

"Actually, she's just a figurehead boss. Our real CEO is an algorithm floating around somewhere in the cloud!"

"You created a robot to do your homework for you? Apparently, laziness is the mother of invention."

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'

Claus 2.0

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

'...and in 1/100000 of a second, it can compound the programmer's error 87,500 times.'

"No, our home wasn't stolen. Since it's a 'smart home', it keeps having itself moved to a nice neighborhood."

'A computer is only as good as the people who are employed to replace the people who were made redundant by the computer.'

"Jimmy, I want you to meet our new safety officer."

Amazon Drones Delivering Babies