February 28, 2025 • 23 mins
When you wake up tomorrow will you still be employed?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm just wondering how many of you are really concerned
because we just talked about finances and the economic challenges,
but how many of you are going to be worried
about whether now you have a job tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How about that? Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Indeed, Danny, it's the Neighbors podcast, Will recent Mike. They
discussing different issues that affect of treating like that. It's
the Neighbors. Wait, the Neighbors.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, Hello, Hello, what's happening? What's going on y'all?
What's the do so, Mike, what's what's the burning question
for today?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Bro? J Ob Okay, well you have one the next
day or the following week or the following month.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
H you know, that's a very interesting quest us, Yes,
and it definitely affects the community.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Indeed, he does, he does.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You know, we have young people, correct who are just
starting off in their journey called life.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Right, but would they be moving back? That's a love
of a good question, yes, right, right.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Out of necessity?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Right right?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And will their jobs even be okay? With that?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But let's just start with the initial question that might ask,
what is your job secure enough today?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right? And who.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You know a lot of people on the edge now,
especially with the federal jobs. You know, you see old
people you know, get hired at the VA. They move,
they pick up their house, they moved to another state
across the country. Could they start date then next you know,
get on everything unpacked, get an email, Oh it's canceled.
(02:09):
That's crazy. It is people spend time and money just
to move the better theirself, go across country, and you
just get punched in the face like that. I mean
you go, oh, oh yeah, oops, my bad that you
can't do that. Yeah, they gotta find something else special
(02:34):
that you know. They they qualified, making school, start making
good money, then they got like find something else like
almost taking like a pay cut.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, well, first of all, what is it define qualified?
Because I mean, I think right now that is so subjective, right,
you get what I mean, Because what's the true qualification? Again,
that's the reason why they you know, people have spoken
up about that whole DEI and all that type of stuff,
(03:05):
you know, and nepotism and you know, all that type
of stuff. But let's be honest. If I'm just coming
from my own perspective, if I had a choice to
pick the person that had the better resume or the
(03:26):
person that is a family member. Most of us is
gonna look out for our own most in most cases, right,
you know, because you're gonna now here's the thing. I'm
not saying that's the wisest choice, though truly probably is
not the wisest choice to begin.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
With, honestly is not.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But a lot of times we look out for our
own I mean because because for an example, as we
talk about our community and money should stay and circulating
our community, right you know, so an unfortunately the African
American community, the money jumps out of this community faster
(04:09):
it does, you know, than any other community. So so
if we hired you know, our cousin, you know Juju,
right right?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Why Juju?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know, man, just the first know why. But
if we hired Juju because we're trying to keep the
money in our quote unquote community, is it is it
the right really the right thing to do. But we
know that he needs a job, We know that, you know,
(04:45):
you know Juicy, Right, She's like, no, how are your cousin?
Because you know, because you know on Juicy is going
to be the one to say, you know, and that's
your favorite aunt too, right, I.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Ain't on juicy, but.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know, but she's the one that said, look, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Y'all know I say, baby, look out for your cousin, baby.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Right, you know you're the big cousin and you the
one that got together and you know how about your
family family got each other? Da da da da dah.
You know. But like you said, like, is that the
best thing to do?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I hate to say this, but we don't put it
on the scale from one to ten. I'm gonna give
it a seven mm hmm seven because I mean, of
course you're gonna ask what kind of skills can they do?
You know, what they do and all that, but it's
to meet up to their skill they're supposed to do well,
(05:47):
you know, the job skill. I mean, I understand every
job have to train you, but how much training do
they have to do?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And can you comprehend or you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's it's you know, I think that is again what
you know, what was the job asking for?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And can you deal with that person not having the
skills to do it right?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So so like like all right, Mike, you know you
drove trucks for how long? Oh, like twenty plus years,
you know, so, so would the companies that you were
employed at driving trucks. Do they want someone that just
got there, you know, just got out of school, or
did they want someone like you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Back then? They wanted somebody else just like me?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know. So but if I know that I could
bring in that other person at a cheaper rate, you
get what I mean? I think some because right now,
again we're talking about people trying to cut CAUs and
increase produits.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Right, But what I mean like that situation depends on
what job it is. Because all right, driving a truck,
you come in with no experience driving a truck, especially
straight out of school, that can it could be costly
and more accidents.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well see and so and here and here's the thing
that you know, I think people misinterpret about driving a
truck because some people feel as though that's a very
simple job.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No it's not, especially eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
No it's not, you know, but but you get what
I'm saying. Though, some people kind of look at it like, hey,
you know, you're a truck driver. Well, first of all,
truck drivers get paid pretty nicely. Numberless, but number two,
you know, how many of you kids drive your little
four wheel you know, two door car without an accident,
without an accident, let alone, like you said, eighteen wheels,
(07:50):
right correct, ten speed whatever, you know, understand highs and
lows and this and that and you know whatever like
breaks like man trying to back that thing up straight back,
you know. So so that takes a lot of skill.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It does.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
It does because you know some of these cats come
out of driving school. Oh you gotta work for us,
get hired and work drive, you know, work for a
year and get to worry about paying it back. But
you see some of these cats driving where you're driving
to track the trailer. You cannot turn it like as
a regular car or pickup truck. You can't be on
(08:31):
the on the in the sign lane and think you
can make a right turn. That's not gonna happen. Oh
it can happen, but it gonna tear up somebody side
of their building. And I've seen it, and sudden of you.
You gotta come up. You got in the second ring,
second lane, Come in up in the middle, get in
the middle. Don't make that right. You gotta make a
wide right turn or you know left turn is easy,
(08:54):
wid right turn. You gotta make a rye right turn,
and you gotta make sure you look in your mirror,
the sepects mirror, the little round mirror, make sure that
nobody come up on you. They call you doing the
blind side, but you can't just come up and.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Turn and.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But see you know again some people don't. Don't think
of it that way, because I'm gonna be honest with you.
Even when just again, just driving along and you see
a truck who's in the right hand lane, and then
you'll see them screwed over to the left hand lane
like you're stayed in correct. But then all of a
(09:29):
sudden you have somebody who will run.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Right up right, you know, paying attention to what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Like yo, Like, first of all, did you not see
them in the in the right hand lane, so you
understand automatically them hopping into the left real quick to
turn turn like you know, and if they can't to
the left, you know they're going straight. If if or
keep going, if they hop in the left hand lane
(09:57):
and they keep they keep pushing it right. Verse says stopping,
stopping right or or slowing down to a point where
it's almost stopping again. Like you said, people ain't paying
attention people in the rush, anybody in the rush, you know. So,
so now you got people that will run right up
on a on a cab of the car, I mean,
(10:17):
out of truck, you know. And now it's like if
you would have been three or four, you know, and
just further, especially with the truck as slow as it
was going.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You'll be right up underneath the trailer exactly. And I've
seen that, I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know. So so, but I'm saying again, I'm saying
that because of some of these companies are not uh
and I'm not saying the truck industry. We're just using
something that seems simple because people think of it in
a simple as you know, perspective sometimes but sometimes like
if you take a look at that, and Mike, I
listen to you all the time, talk about, hey, how
(10:50):
some of these companies are still looking for drivers, you know,
they're they're looking, but they're not treating their employees.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Right right, correct, correct, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And just because you're you know, you're retired from it,
you know, but you're still very much in it, right,
you know. So what is that industry gonna look like
in the next two or three years, especially with all
the challenges that's going through with employment, right, you know,
all these people that's gonna be more than likely unemployed
right soon, right.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And the thing is like.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You had these people, you know, to do a job
first of all these days like there's no more uh
employee morale, No that that that died ten fifteen, twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Man down, it's down. Yeah. And you have people, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
A police they all man go to work, yeah yeah, cool, cool,
you know problem, but we come to work in the
songways some BSh. Yeah, people don't get tired. What they're
gonna do. They're gonna go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know what I heard.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's almost only some of these jobs. Oh the manager,
Oh you be thankful you got a job. No, oh,
thankful you got a job because it's quicker for me
to find a job than you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You know, they kill me. They say, I'm like, come on, really,
because I got to see dyl what you got.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But I think that's I think that's
a challenge. You know. Some people take some of this
stuff for granted.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, exactly what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And with the market changing, right, the market is really
changing the boards the board, you know, because if you
really think about it how much? Even again from this
simple idea of this job. You know, is the truck
driving industry going to be automated? They have autonomous trucks
(12:43):
throughout the world.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, I understand that they do.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
But when it comes to certain scenarios, like certain situations, Okay,
there's an accident upfront, up my head with the truck,
no to slow down.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean, we've already seen some people who has who
have autonomous cards run right into.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
People exactly or freeze up on them. Can me stop right?
But you're going to need a human behind the wheel.
You're going to need to You have to make certain decisions. Okay,
it's icy, yuh, should I slow down or just speed
keep speeding right right?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
What's ice on the ground.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It's not gonna do that like that because like you know,
going up to the mountains, pokingos they call them running raps, ramps,
road to grades, like the truck is losing control, don't
have no brakes, but they do. They go to that
path over there and slow helps grab all that helps
to load the truck down. Now, but an automatic truck
(13:49):
don how to do that?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They don't know, man, come on, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, I mean and granted, you know, the automate, the
automated truck will probably know that that ramp is there
based off a GPS and everything else, not even that,
but how would But would they know is you know
what though? I mean, because you're talking about breaks being
(14:15):
uh censored, I guess right, you know, so you think
about some of those really really high end cars, like
their brakes are censored, right, So so would they know
that the break is failing? It probably would, But like
you said, some of that is more of a human touch,
human touch, correct, you know, because because there there could
probably be a break situation where you're like, maybe I
(14:38):
can coast it through versus having to take the ramp.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Right, you know, depend on the same the scenario.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know, Hey, you know what, it's not that much
traffic if I keep going, if I just take my
foot off the break and let gravity.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Take its course right, slow it down. But I mean,
truck driving by itself, ain't no parasue gonna come out.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Right right right, you know? Right? You know, so, so
I think, like you said, I think some of that
is you know, touch and feel, touch and feel, you know,
But but how do we deal with that, especially if
we think that employment rates are going to change and
you know whatever again for stuff that we think is
basically I mean, I know for myself being in customer
(15:23):
service for so so long that I listened to my
compadres that are still in it and how a lot
of them want are are home? Right? But I said, well,
how many calls do you received? They're like their call
volume has dropped, dropped, and the reason being because there's
(15:44):
so many you know, so much to the answering machine, right,
you know that when you call, press one if you
want this, Press two if you want that, Press one
again if you want this, please hold and wait, hold
a wait for what especially if there's no calls in
you so because the machine is trying to answer everything
and route everybody and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, yeah, I mean with that situation, I mean basically
that's life with like simple questions like safeens like well,
would you know what would you want to know about
your count when your camp do? That's like something like that,
but something deeper you need to talk to somebody here?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, I mean so so again, like I said, I
get the simplicity of the idea, but but like, because
you know, granted, you know, if I'm looking up my
bank account, I don't normally call. But if I did
(16:42):
call nine times ten, I'm looking for something more. I
don't realize what I want until later on. You get
what I mean? You know, I'm just saying from my
own experience for me because normally, if I if I
want to know my account, I just log into my
to the website right right, you know, But if there's
a discrepancy or something else, like I don't understand, like, yeah,
(17:04):
I want to talk to somebody, but I don't want
to go through one hundred different prompts.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Get what I mean. Like you know, and or if
I have so so with me being in healthcare and
me hearing what the uh, the patience or whatever want
when they call about their health insurance, I'm like, all right,
I could verify your benefits, right, and I can tell
(17:31):
you what this you know, how this bill was paid
or whatever else. But you know, the patient though, or
the customer is rather impatient. Impatient, impatient because yo, I
had to go through thirteen different prompts to get to
you for you just to tell me that y'all denied it, well,
(17:52):
I want to know why y'all denied it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You get what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You know, so they're already frustrated, they're already upset, there
are you know. So I can't sit here and say
that the automation part works, you know, because like you're saying,
even for even for a trucking situation, automation doesn't work because,
like you said, if the breaks fail or you know,
can can the machine judge distance.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Exactly what action to take? You know, right, the emergency
off ramp? Well, which can I take? Well, you know,
take that or right?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean, I think I'm pretty sure the machine can
probably calculate, maybe a little better than a human could.
But like you said, some of it is No, it's
all about feel.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It's all about feel, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because does it feel like it's about to give? Does
it feel like it has given? Or the breaks on fire?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right? I mean, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean it can sense a truck, I mean a
car that's in front of them, right, right, got card?
You know, do do do do slow down automatically, but
certain scenarios, is it going to slow down when it's
got no breaks?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
How you go slow down.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Right right, and in that too. So so if from
from a runaway truck and you're going down at three
lane highway right and if and if there's traffic ahead,
is the robot quote unquote going to know which direction
(19:23):
it would it needs to take in order to save lives?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You get what I mean? Because again, you know, hey,
I do a lot of research. I look at a
lot of different stuff, especially at two three o'clock in
the morning, so I've watched you know, so so you know,
when I've seen, based off of what you're talking about,
some truckers where they have taken their truck and just
(19:49):
a lot of truck to flip versus running to the.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Cars, theyjack the truck. Yeah, to save lives, right.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You get what I mean. You know, so they're like, know,
I'd rather put it in a dirt.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, because he killed somebody get killed. Yeah, I rather
put it in dirt.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Too, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
So so but well the robot quote unquote, no, what's best?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You know? So if for myself, like I said, being
in healthcare, especially when I was working on the weekends
and and a patient will call and they're like, hey,
you know, I got my medication and I need a
five day supply. I mean I had a lot of
those type of calls, you know, and so you know,
(20:35):
so if you have or or it will be like
maybe a Friday late you know, evening or whatever else
and somebody will call and say, hey, I need my
my you know, asthma medication or or my pain medication,
and I just ran out, Well I do see, you know,
is the robot going to be able to approve that
(20:56):
or not? Because a lot of again, like you said,
some of that needs a personal to definitely, definitely you know.
So so yeah, y'all, you know, so I just want
to know, are y'all experiencing some of these same things
where we're talking about the economy, where we're talking about
things that's going to affect the community, you know of hey,
what is your job situation, how's it going to change? How?
(21:16):
You know, how has you know, AI changed the you know,
the game a little bit? But and are we relying
too much on it where some of us are really
really going to lose a whole bunch of jobs.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, as you see any especially in the
factories now automobile, right, you know, building cars, right, they all.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Robot arms right right now. Now, I'm gonna be honest
with you if you you know, there's some things that hey,
if this windshield needs to be placed because of some
of the product that they're using, might be a little
heavier than understand that. Yeah, but you know what I mean.
But there are some things where you don't need to robot, right,
(21:58):
you know. Now you got you got by building cars, right, right?
I mean, look, I saw a robot building the house
like like you know, because in all reality, if you're
using it heavy, if you're using heavy equipment, it's already
technically a.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Machine pretty much.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Then put a robot, you know, put AI in it.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, but the old thing is the human is controlling it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah. But you know when that when I saw that
robot building that house, I'm like, oh wow, that's what
we're getting too. Now you get what I mean? You know,
so how many y'all are concerned about where y'all jobs
are going, right, and where you be employed by the
end of the year.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
By the end of the year, I mean, you know,
not lean not saying that everybody's going to be unemployed,
depending what feel the work you're a right, especially government jobs.
Now that's definitely ain't what it used to be.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right right, because that's all up and down. I don't
care where you are up and down right, So yeah, y'all,
you know, continue to listen, and you know, if y'all
got a question us up.
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Speaker 2 (23:24):
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Speaker 1 (23:30):
Stay safe, stay connected, and we'll catch you in the
next one.
I'm just wondering how many of you are really concerned
because we just talked about finances and the economic challenges,
but how many of you are going to be worried
about whether now you have a job tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How about that? Let's talk about that.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Indeed, Danny, it's the Neighbors podcast, Will recent Mike. They
discussing different issues that affect of treating like that. It's
the Neighbors. Wait, the Neighbors.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, Hello, Hello, what's happening? What's going on y'all?
What's the do so, Mike, what's what's the burning question
for today?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Bro? J Ob Okay, well you have one the next
day or the following week or the following month.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
H you know, that's a very interesting quest us, Yes,
and it definitely affects the community.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Indeed, he does, he does.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You know, we have young people, correct who are just
starting off in their journey called life.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Right, but would they be moving back? That's a love
of a good question, yes, right, right.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Out of necessity?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Right right?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And will their jobs even be okay? With that?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But let's just start with the initial question that might ask,
what is your job secure enough today?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right? And who.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You know a lot of people on the edge now,
especially with the federal jobs. You know, you see old
people you know, get hired at the VA. They move,
they pick up their house, they moved to another state
across the country. Could they start date then next you know,
get on everything unpacked, get an email, Oh it's canceled.
(02:09):
That's crazy. It is people spend time and money just
to move the better theirself, go across country, and you
just get punched in the face like that. I mean
you go, oh, oh yeah, oops, my bad that you
can't do that. Yeah, they gotta find something else special
(02:34):
that you know. They they qualified, making school, start making
good money, then they got like find something else like
almost taking like a pay cut.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, well, first of all, what is it define qualified?
Because I mean, I think right now that is so subjective, right,
you get what I mean, Because what's the true qualification? Again,
that's the reason why they you know, people have spoken
up about that whole DEI and all that type of stuff,
(03:05):
you know, and nepotism and you know, all that type
of stuff. But let's be honest. If I'm just coming
from my own perspective, if I had a choice to
pick the person that had the better resume or the
(03:26):
person that is a family member. Most of us is
gonna look out for our own most in most cases, right,
you know, because you're gonna now here's the thing. I'm
not saying that's the wisest choice, though truly probably is
not the wisest choice to begin.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
With, honestly is not.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But a lot of times we look out for our
own I mean because because for an example, as we
talk about our community and money should stay and circulating
our community, right you know, so an unfortunately the African
American community, the money jumps out of this community faster
(04:09):
it does, you know, than any other community. So so
if we hired you know, our cousin, you know Juju,
right right?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Why Juju?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know, man, just the first know why. But
if we hired Juju because we're trying to keep the
money in our quote unquote community, is it is it
the right really the right thing to do. But we
know that he needs a job, We know that, you know,
(04:45):
you know Juicy, Right, She's like, no, how are your cousin?
Because you know, because you know on Juicy is going
to be the one to say, you know, and that's
your favorite aunt too, right, I.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Ain't on juicy, but.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know, but she's the one that said, look, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Y'all know I say, baby, look out for your cousin, baby.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Right, you know you're the big cousin and you the
one that got together and you know how about your
family family got each other? Da da da da dah.
You know. But like you said, like, is that the
best thing to do?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I hate to say this, but we don't put it
on the scale from one to ten. I'm gonna give
it a seven mm hmm seven because I mean, of
course you're gonna ask what kind of skills can they do?
You know, what they do and all that, but it's
to meet up to their skill they're supposed to do well,
(05:47):
you know, the job skill. I mean, I understand every
job have to train you, but how much training do
they have to do?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And can you comprehend or you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's it's you know, I think that is again what
you know, what was the job asking for?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And can you deal with that person not having the
skills to do it right?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
So so like like all right, Mike, you know you
drove trucks for how long? Oh, like twenty plus years,
you know, so, so would the companies that you were
employed at driving trucks. Do they want someone that just
got there, you know, just got out of school, or
did they want someone like you.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Back then? They wanted somebody else just like me?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know. So but if I know that I could
bring in that other person at a cheaper rate, you
get what I mean? I think some because right now,
again we're talking about people trying to cut CAUs and
increase produits.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Right, But what I mean like that situation depends on
what job it is. Because all right, driving a truck,
you come in with no experience driving a truck, especially
straight out of school, that can it could be costly
and more accidents.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well see and so and here and here's the thing
that you know, I think people misinterpret about driving a
truck because some people feel as though that's a very
simple job.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No it's not, especially eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
No it's not, you know, but but you get what
I'm saying. Though, some people kind of look at it like, hey,
you know, you're a truck driver. Well, first of all,
truck drivers get paid pretty nicely. Numberless, but number two,
you know, how many of you kids drive your little
four wheel you know, two door car without an accident,
without an accident, let alone, like you said, eighteen wheels,
(07:50):
right correct, ten speed whatever, you know, understand highs and
lows and this and that and you know whatever like
breaks like man trying to back that thing up straight back,
you know. So so that takes a lot of skill.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It does.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
It does because you know some of these cats come
out of driving school. Oh you gotta work for us,
get hired and work drive, you know, work for a
year and get to worry about paying it back. But
you see some of these cats driving where you're driving
to track the trailer. You cannot turn it like as
a regular car or pickup truck. You can't be on
(08:31):
the on the in the sign lane and think you
can make a right turn. That's not gonna happen. Oh
it can happen, but it gonna tear up somebody side
of their building. And I've seen it, and sudden of you.
You gotta come up. You got in the second ring,
second lane, Come in up in the middle, get in
the middle. Don't make that right. You gotta make a
wide right turn or you know left turn is easy,
(08:54):
wid right turn. You gotta make a rye right turn,
and you gotta make sure you look in your mirror,
the sepects mirror, the little round mirror, make sure that
nobody come up on you. They call you doing the
blind side, but you can't just come up and.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Turn and.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But see you know again some people don't. Don't think
of it that way, because I'm gonna be honest with you.
Even when just again, just driving along and you see
a truck who's in the right hand lane, and then
you'll see them screwed over to the left hand lane
like you're stayed in correct. But then all of a
(09:29):
sudden you have somebody who will run.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Right up right, you know, paying attention to what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Like yo, Like, first of all, did you not see
them in the in the right hand lane, so you
understand automatically them hopping into the left real quick to
turn turn like you know, and if they can't to
the left, you know they're going straight. If if or
keep going, if they hop in the left hand lane
(09:57):
and they keep they keep pushing it right. Verse says stopping,
stopping right or or slowing down to a point where
it's almost stopping again. Like you said, people ain't paying
attention people in the rush, anybody in the rush, you know. So,
so now you got people that will run right up
on a on a cab of the car, I mean,
(10:17):
out of truck, you know. And now it's like if
you would have been three or four, you know, and
just further, especially with the truck as slow as it
was going.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You'll be right up underneath the trailer exactly. And I've
seen that, I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know. So so, but I'm saying again, I'm saying
that because of some of these companies are not uh
and I'm not saying the truck industry. We're just using
something that seems simple because people think of it in
a simple as you know, perspective sometimes but sometimes like
if you take a look at that, and Mike, I
listen to you all the time, talk about, hey, how
(10:50):
some of these companies are still looking for drivers, you know,
they're they're looking, but they're not treating their employees.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Right right, correct, correct, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And just because you're you know, you're retired from it,
you know, but you're still very much in it, right,
you know. So what is that industry gonna look like
in the next two or three years, especially with all
the challenges that's going through with employment, right, you know,
all these people that's gonna be more than likely unemployed
right soon, right.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And the thing is like.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You had these people, you know, to do a job
first of all these days like there's no more uh
employee morale, No that that that died ten fifteen, twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Man down, it's down. Yeah. And you have people, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
A police they all man go to work, yeah yeah, cool, cool,
you know problem, but we come to work in the
songways some BSh. Yeah, people don't get tired. What they're
gonna do. They're gonna go somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know what I heard.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's almost only some of these jobs. Oh the manager,
Oh you be thankful you got a job. No, oh,
thankful you got a job because it's quicker for me
to find a job than you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You know, they kill me. They say, I'm like, come on, really,
because I got to see dyl what you got.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But I think that's I think that's
a challenge. You know. Some people take some of this
stuff for granted.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, exactly what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And with the market changing, right, the market is really
changing the boards the board, you know, because if you
really think about it how much? Even again from this
simple idea of this job. You know, is the truck
driving industry going to be automated? They have autonomous trucks
(12:43):
throughout the world.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah, I understand that they do.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
But when it comes to certain scenarios, like certain situations, Okay,
there's an accident upfront, up my head with the truck,
no to slow down.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean, we've already seen some people who has who
have autonomous cards run right into.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
People exactly or freeze up on them. Can me stop right?
But you're going to need a human behind the wheel.
You're going to need to You have to make certain decisions. Okay,
it's icy, yuh, should I slow down or just speed
keep speeding right right?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
What's ice on the ground.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
It's not gonna do that like that because like you know,
going up to the mountains, pokingos they call them running raps, ramps,
road to grades, like the truck is losing control, don't
have no brakes, but they do. They go to that
path over there and slow helps grab all that helps
to load the truck down. Now, but an automatic truck
(13:49):
don how to do that?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They don't know, man, come on, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, I mean and granted, you know, the automate, the
automated truck will probably know that that ramp is there
based off a GPS and everything else, not even that,
but how would But would they know is you know
what though? I mean, because you're talking about breaks being
(14:15):
uh censored, I guess right, you know, so you think
about some of those really really high end cars, like
their brakes are censored, right, So so would they know
that the break is failing? It probably would, But like
you said, some of that is more of a human touch,
human touch, correct, you know, because because there there could
probably be a break situation where you're like, maybe I
(14:38):
can coast it through versus having to take the ramp.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Right, you know, depend on the same the scenario.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know, Hey, you know what, it's not that much
traffic if I keep going, if I just take my
foot off the break and let gravity.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Take its course right, slow it down. But I mean,
truck driving by itself, ain't no parasue gonna come out.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Right right right, you know? Right? You know, so, so
I think, like you said, I think some of that
is you know, touch and feel, touch and feel, you know,
But but how do we deal with that, especially if
we think that employment rates are going to change and
you know whatever again for stuff that we think is
basically I mean, I know for myself being in customer
(15:23):
service for so so long that I listened to my
compadres that are still in it and how a lot
of them want are are home? Right? But I said, well,
how many calls do you received? They're like their call
volume has dropped, dropped, and the reason being because there's
(15:44):
so many you know, so much to the answering machine, right,
you know that when you call, press one if you
want this, Press two if you want that, Press one
again if you want this, please hold and wait, hold
a wait for what especially if there's no calls in
you so because the machine is trying to answer everything
and route everybody and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Well, yeah, I mean with that situation, I mean basically
that's life with like simple questions like safeens like well,
would you know what would you want to know about
your count when your camp do? That's like something like that,
but something deeper you need to talk to somebody here?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, I mean so so again, like I said, I
get the simplicity of the idea, but but like, because
you know, granted, you know, if I'm looking up my
bank account, I don't normally call. But if I did
(16:42):
call nine times ten, I'm looking for something more. I
don't realize what I want until later on. You get
what I mean? You know, I'm just saying from my
own experience for me because normally, if I if I
want to know my account, I just log into my
to the website right right, you know, But if there's
a discrepancy or something else, like I don't understand, like, yeah,
(17:04):
I want to talk to somebody, but I don't want
to go through one hundred different prompts.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Get what I mean. Like you know, and or if
I have so so with me being in healthcare and
me hearing what the uh, the patience or whatever want
when they call about their health insurance, I'm like, all right,
I could verify your benefits, right, and I can tell
(17:31):
you what this you know, how this bill was paid
or whatever else. But you know, the patient though, or
the customer is rather impatient. Impatient, impatient because yo, I
had to go through thirteen different prompts to get to
you for you just to tell me that y'all denied it, well,
(17:52):
I want to know why y'all denied it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You get what I mean?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You know, so they're already frustrated, they're already upset, there
are you know. So I can't sit here and say
that the automation part works, you know, because like you're saying,
even for even for a trucking situation, automation doesn't work because,
like you said, if the breaks fail or you know,
can can the machine judge distance.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Exactly what action to take? You know, right, the emergency
off ramp? Well, which can I take? Well, you know,
take that or right?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean, I think I'm pretty sure the machine can
probably calculate, maybe a little better than a human could.
But like you said, some of it is No, it's
all about feel.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It's all about feel, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because does it feel like it's about to give? Does
it feel like it has given? Or the breaks on fire?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Right? I mean, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean it can sense a truck, I mean a
car that's in front of them, right, right, got card?
You know, do do do do slow down automatically, but
certain scenarios, is it going to slow down when it's
got no breaks?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
How you go slow down.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Right right, and in that too. So so if from
from a runaway truck and you're going down at three
lane highway right and if and if there's traffic ahead,
is the robot quote unquote going to know which direction
(19:23):
it would it needs to take in order to save lives?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You get what I mean? Because again, you know, hey,
I do a lot of research. I look at a
lot of different stuff, especially at two three o'clock in
the morning, so I've watched you know, so so you know,
when I've seen, based off of what you're talking about,
some truckers where they have taken their truck and just
(19:49):
a lot of truck to flip versus running to the.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Cars, theyjack the truck. Yeah, to save lives, right.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You get what I mean. You know, so they're like, know,
I'd rather put it in a dirt.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, because he killed somebody get killed. Yeah, I rather
put it in dirt.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Too, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
So so but well the robot quote unquote, no, what's best?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
You know? So if for myself, like I said, being
in healthcare, especially when I was working on the weekends
and and a patient will call and they're like, hey,
you know, I got my medication and I need a
five day supply. I mean I had a lot of
those type of calls, you know, and so you know,
(20:35):
so if you have or or it will be like
maybe a Friday late you know, evening or whatever else
and somebody will call and say, hey, I need my
my you know, asthma medication or or my pain medication,
and I just ran out, Well I do see, you know,
is the robot going to be able to approve that
(20:56):
or not? Because a lot of again, like you said,
some of that needs a personal to definitely, definitely you know.
So so yeah, y'all, you know, so I just want
to know, are y'all experiencing some of these same things
where we're talking about the economy, where we're talking about
things that's going to affect the community, you know of hey,
what is your job situation, how's it going to change? How?
(21:16):
You know, how has you know, AI changed the you know,
the game a little bit? But and are we relying
too much on it where some of us are really
really going to lose a whole bunch of jobs.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, as you see any especially in the
factories now automobile, right, you know, building cars, right, they all.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Robot arms right right now. Now, I'm gonna be honest
with you if you you know, there's some things that hey,
if this windshield needs to be placed because of some
of the product that they're using, might be a little
heavier than understand that. Yeah, but you know what I mean.
But there are some things where you don't need to robot, right,
(21:58):
you know. Now you got you got by building cars, right, right?
I mean, look, I saw a robot building the house
like like you know, because in all reality, if you're
using it heavy, if you're using heavy equipment, it's already
technically a.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Machine pretty much.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Then put a robot, you know, put AI in it.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, but the old thing is the human is controlling it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah. But you know when that when I saw that
robot building that house, I'm like, oh wow, that's what
we're getting too. Now you get what I mean? You know,
so how many y'all are concerned about where y'all jobs
are going, right, and where you be employed by the
end of the year.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
By the end of the year, I mean, you know,
not lean not saying that everybody's going to be unemployed,
depending what feel the work you're a right, especially government jobs.
Now that's definitely ain't what it used to be.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right right, because that's all up and down. I don't
care where you are up and down right, So yeah, y'all,
you know, continue to listen, and you know, if y'all
got a question us up.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Feel free, Dica peace, Hey, good day. Thanks for hanging
out with us on the Neighbors Podcast. We hope you
enjoyed the conversation and felt right at home. If you
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Speaker 3 (23:19):
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Speaker 2 (23:24):
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