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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Our old-school accounting ladies have all been slowly weeded out by the new nerdy kid who has introduced business intelligence and automation. Other groups like facilities don't really exist anymore either with records rooms disappearing and everybody learning to move their own furniture.
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Sadly, that change has been going on for decades. When I started as a summer student at a major in the late 80s, departments like shipping and receiving, the mailroom, stationary, reprographics, and records accounted for a hefty proportion of the head-count, and were staffed with working-class and middle-class Calgarians who enjoyed full benefits. In the 90s most of those positions were outsourced to temp companies. Now it’s the turn of payroll, data processing, and IT to be dropped, automated, or outsourced.
As it becomes the domain of small numbers of highly paid workers, we’ll likely see the popular support and identification with the energy industry decline further in this city.