In the increasing digital age, continue to expect to see less people and more bots. For those of you that watched Transformers 3 you probably think that is a good idea. Optimus is the man right? Ok true, when it comes to the big screen but what about your local grocery store? I'm not entirely sure it would go over well to see less people working these front line people jobs and more automation via robots. Of course we are already seeing some of that now with with automated checkout counters at Safeway and Kroger. Of course you know all of the automation in banking with ATMs, online banking and automated bill pay. Now let's fast forward that to include when you go to get your car serviced, the dry cleaners or the post office.

So with all of these automated services, where do the people go that used to fill those jobs? We hear a lot about retraining and retooling but no specifics. It's probably a stretch of the imagination to think that people in these service jobs could simply change over to technical jobs supporting all the automating in banking, retail, etc. So with all of the positions that robots will continue to eliminate, the bottom line is - it will likely lead to a touchy situation - sooner versus later. Touchy in the sense of where will these people go and even more so, are we ready to have discussions with bots at the grocery store? Cost cutting has it's pros and cons, so we'll have to wait and see which side wins as more automated bots find there way into our daily lives. With the exception of Optimus and Bumblebee less people and more bots is still a question mark. Optimus for President!

If you don't like the personality of your local bank teller, you might be waving bye bye to your bank teller...sooner than you think. Basically, more and more bank bosses are looking for ways to cut costs. So guess whose job is at the top of the list. You guessed it bank tellers. So if the bank teller job is on the way out who/what is the replacement? How about robo-teller. Robo-teller comes in many forms, advanced ATMS offering more and more features, automated phone teller and of course the cyber-teller via advanced banking features via online banking. Before long, bank tellers will be a foreign phrase; even more so what is the future of branch banking? It doesn't look good for jobs in general as far as branch banking goes.

The irony to the attack on branch banking jobs is that most of the back office and executive level positions remain secure. Take Bank of America for example, the executive level continues to get bonus while BOFA eliminatesmore and more branch banking jobs. Makes you wonder why bank tellers and other branch positions are under fire so much these days? Sure there are the occasional situations where the "branch goes bad", like with guy from Seattle who visits his Chase branch to cash a totally valid check and in turn ends of spending a few nights in jail. Granted, the staff in that Chase branch are buffoons at best, but does this mean an all out attack on bank teller jobs is necessary? Who knows but unless you have a problem with bank teller head count reduction (and speak up), expect to wave bye bye to your local bank teller in the very near future.