Its a really shocking news to everyone... Well almost everyone except the contractual staff (me). The bad news was the CIP System will be carried out March of 2006, which means about 700 of the current staff will be deployed. With the new technology, man power will be reduced to only 600 people compared to the current amount, 1300.
The minute the manager annouced that, someone gasp really loud... and cursed "shit!!". I dont know why, but somehow something inside me was shaken. I felt so sorry for them, cause most of the are working parents and elderly person. Lossing one income can be a serious problem to a family and for an elderly person, its really tough to compete with the new generation. I still remember seeing a uncle typing using only 1 finger (how to compete with 10 fingers woh!!!)
I remember seeing the faces on their face and the atmospher in the room was soo tense. I sort of can understand how they feel, and I can actually feeel as if I am in their shoes. Why must it be this way? To them its really like the end of the world, cause most of the people had spent almost half of their life there, and now all in the sudden, they are called to leaave?
I heard a lady joking that she wanted to wait till she retired before leaving... but now, looks like she got an early 'booking'.
The system is gonna cause a lot of people to loose their job as it involves a few main division in the United Kingdom, Manchester, Preston, Bolton & Liverpool. Imagine, every division loosing 600 people, 4 divison = 2400 people... How shocking & sad is that...
I guess thats the cons of techonolgy to human kind. Less and less humans are needed to complete the work & technology taking over humans... maybe one day, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will just take over the world... who knows...