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You forgot the part where they’re also painfully understaffed. Automating things is not going to fix the issue.
I didn't forget that part. The article indicates that they have job openings that they are simply not getting applicants for. Throwing more money at staffing won't fix that, you can't magically spawn qualified people out of nothing.
I seem to be the only person in this thread who's actually reading and responding to the article, and every response I give instantly gets hit with downvotes. Do people simply want to be angry about AI, and so anything that might interfere with the purity of that anger is unwelcome? Maybe we should just have a daily thread with a title of simply "How about that AI, huh?" That people can post angry comments in without fear of meaningful interruption.
SLC has a glut of qualified people that could staff these offices, the fact they only got a 4% COL raise this year tells you most of why they might have trouble keeping people. The COL of SLC has absolutely skyrocketed since 2019.
But that's actually besides the point, you know the real joke about this, they say there are 15 open positions, yet when you search for dispatch job postings, they don't list any, that's from their own site – only if you dig through SLC's specific job portal do you even find a single posting for dispatch.
Maybe they should spend less time on AI and more time trying to hire actual people.
Thank you for being the first person in this thread to actually go to any sort of effort to dig up factual counterarguments.