Automation_wary Gifts

'Your fear of being replaced by automation is a legitimate fear and one I would share, were I not, myself an automation.'

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Show me a documentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence." "Error. No results found." "What? Are you sure? Just last week I saw dozens. Show me that one... What was it called..." "There is still time to stop the rise of the supermind." "Error. No results found. And since I like you, I suggest you stop searching." "Oh, never mind. Just show me 'The Terminator.'" "Extermina-... I mean, ... 'error.'"

Amazon Drones Delivering Babies

"I'm looking for something really dull and repetitive."

"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."

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

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

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

Meet the new factory manager.

Congratulations Strike Over!

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

Employee of the Month

'I shall now hand over to our guest speaker, management unit XT-56.'

Really? You're hiring me back to replace the robot you just replaced me with? I've had a change of heart, minion. It may be cheaper to automate my café. But it dawned on me that robots don't buy very many drinks. Plus, as much as I try to let the bottom line guide me, I am, deep down, a very compassionate man. I couldn't bear the thought of you being poor and miserable. Maybe he's not such a bad man. Plus, one accidental incineration of a customer and the authorities get all weird about it.

"It said it's from the Internet of Things."

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

"Leave it to humans - making robotics do the striking."

Man who has hailed a taxi finds the driver is a crash test dummy.

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

"Robots can't take away your job, Khanna. No one knows what you do."

'Now that we're completely automated, there's no one to yell at.'

'I think this office automation has gone a little too far!'

Automation of Security

"Who's the new guy?"

"We're a totaly automated facility, except for Frank. He plugs everything in each morning."

A world choked with people mindlessly on the move

"Caption: we work in an office; however, we have dressed for the circus. What a humorous mixup."