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The "real" challenge technology presents isn't that it replaces workers, but rather displaces them.
The robots perform tasks that humans previously performed. The fear is that they are replacing human jobs, eliminating work in distribution centers and elsewhere in the economy. It is not hard to imagine that technology might be a major factor causing persistent unemployment today and threatening “more to come.”
Surprisingly, the managers of distribution centers and supply chains see things rather differently: in surveys they report that they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology. “Supply chain” is the term for the systems used to move products from suppliers to customers. Warehouse robots are not the first technology taking over some of the tasks of supply chain workers, nor are they even seen as the most important technology affecting the industry today.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/scarce-skills-not-scarce-jobs/390789/
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday April 30 2015, @05:38AM
I don't know how far into the company this extends, but the company in SF my brother's worked at for the past several years is hiring [tinyco.com] and seems to be handling things differently based on what he has said. (I'm worried that if I give examples, he'd be identified and somehow get into hot water; I don't know the rules for things like that.) It might be worth looking into if any of them look like a good match for you.
Interestingly, I noticed that the staff photo only seems at first glance like it's all young people; it looks like the age distribution was carefully arranged to give that impression...not sure whether that's a good sign or a bad one.
Hopefully you'll be able to find a new job *somewhere* quickly enough to avoid the usual 'jobless' stigma and comfortably continue paying the bills, in any event.