Automation Anxiety Warrior Pillows

You're on "Ask Sadie." Whets your problem?! Self-driving cars. They're being tested all over, and before we know it, there won't be people behind the wheels anymore. I'm terrified of that. Am I overreacting? Not at all, caller. Once we start flipping off robots instead of our fellow man, are we truly still human? Exactly!

'I don't want him experiencing anything until I've totally checked it out.'

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

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

"Barking sometimes helps me relax. But then it drives the neighbors crazy."

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

Fight or Flight

Pinocchio's Second Realization

"Try thinking about something else."

"I have a recurring nightmare that I've taken a test, and the professor won't give me an 'A'."

'I guess my brain just started to really care about itself.'

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

"That recruitment algorithm we’ve been using, I think we need to revisit it!"

"I think I'm having pre-traumatic stress disorder."

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

Evil Exams!

That party went well.

Amazon Drones Delivering Babies

"We're going to the Vet aren't we."

"Why can't I get anything done unless I'm totally stressed out about it?" "Is it possible to be relaxed and still be productive?" "What is wrong with my brain?" "Why don't you work better?"

"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."

Flu vaccine.

A Hypochondriac's Worst Nightmare

"Shankar, I needed someone to dot the 'I's' and cross the 'T's' but that was before there was ChatGPT."

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

"Basically it makes the same mistakes we've always made - but it makes tham so much faster!"

Meet the new factory manager.

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

"I'd like to be a shake-it-off kind of person, but I'm more of a cling-to-it-and-focus-on-it-until-it's-irrevocably-weaved-into-my-psyche sort of gal."

Employee of the Month

"Can you recommend a wine that goes well with red meat, Zanex, and Lipitor?"

Some of us are calm on the surface but paddling like crazy underneath, and some of us are just the opposite.

'He won't eat his lettuce until I've washed it five times. I'm sure his OCD is getting worse!'

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