Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Most of the traditional jobs will vanish in the next two decades. I am more concerned about next generations.

Most of the company workers call.center workers might be located on foreign soil. They are not H1b folks who are physically in US. H1b employees are small fraction of the jobs. Offshoring is the biggest threat to the American middle class. Millions of jobs are moving out to all over the world. Just like the way Manufacturing jobs left the country in the 80s as 90s. Now the desk jobs are moving out. Some of the jobs like bank teller are replaced by virtual remote video conferencing based teller in offshore. Similarly the security guard at our gated community job is remote. And then recently our city replaced trash picking guy with a robotic arm at the back of the trash truck. Thousands of jobs vanished overnight. Cameras at the traffic lights reduced the work for traffic cops in the recent past. And then google will make sure that all the cab driver jobs will either vanish or they will become remote driver assisted with more autonomous cars. Technology will take away about 80% of the traditional jobs in the next 2 decades. I am more worried about our children and the kind of skills they need.

-Jay Jay

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Terminator is already out there in our everyday life. Several jobs are vanishing year after year because of the technology that we are ironically proud of.

Jay jay

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Post ID: @1Y4S+Ey3AwUt

The terminator movie could be come a reality, so we need legislation put into law to regulate the robots , to save jobs for people and also take away off shore tax haven breaks for the off shorers,, No longer can we take it easy like a bunch of sheep

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Post ID: @1CYA+Ey3AwUt

"Soylent Green"

Listen to me. Hatcher. You've gotta tell 'em! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

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Post ID: @ilt+Ey3AwUt

How my children and grandchildren will survive in this global economy keeps me awake at night. Automation and Off-shoring is killing American jobs. No one is safe. even white collar desk jobs .....An off-shore employee (with a AMERICAN Law degree, Phd and MBA) will do the same job for 30-40K, so why pay a wall street guy $300K? USA government wants to go back to the model that founded this country, Kings, Queens, Paupers, Serfs.. Tent cities will be the Norm in 20-30 years. Find and watch the Movie "Soylent Green" to get an idea where this country (and the world) is headed.

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Post ID: @RQ1+Ey3AwUt

Americans should call the company's bluff and say that they will follow their job offshore. An American can work in the Philippines or India, and succeed. Instead of exporting jobs, let's export Americans to change the culture in these other countries.

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Post ID: @dMk+Ey3AwUt

So, the future is apparently in robot assembly, at least until they get robots to do it.

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Post ID: @Xno+Ey3AwUt

So, if I'm reading you correctly, vending machine repair jobs are the next big thing? At least until robots start doing it? And, will those be American robots, or Indian robots?

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Post ID: @JCh+Ey3AwUt

Fast food.jobs? Already Americans forgot what food.mean. they eat the food that is suited to be prepared on assembly line. Soon those jobs can be completely be replaced with vending machines.

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Post ID: @GPj+Ey3AwUt

There's still service jobs. "You want fries with that..."

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Post ID: @9vM+Ey3AwUt

The unions have been railing against this for years, sounding the alarm bells as manufacturing began to disappear for foreign locales. No suits would listen, because it didn't affect them. The unions were the problem, we were told (and still are told). The unions were attacked because they were viewed as the fly in the ointment, they stood in the way, they rang the alarm bells and were a challenge to the new status quo desired by corporations. We were told to adjust to the new norm. America was going to rid itself of the "menial" work, and concentrate on the "intellectual" work - accounting, law, IT... Now we find ourselves where those jobs too are flying out the door. Hear that sucking sound, that's the sound of America's future jobs being sucked out the door for parts unknown - and known. And you dummies still hate unions.

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