I truly doubt this software can function at the level claimed, but hey it makes great science fiction. Hari Seldon would be pleased. Psychohistory has at last become a reality.

Nice to see someone else thinks this is as stupid as I do. Sadly as a trash collector this is exactly what they do. All of us are expected to pick up x amount of containers in y amount of time. Nevermind the fact that on some routes, as a private scavenger that is, there may be a few miles between stops, or at others you may have close to 20 lined up and ready to go. Yet everyone is supposed to achieve the same unrealistic goal, because thats what the bean counters in the front office came up with. These would be the same bean counters who dumped several million dollars into a firm to develop a piece of software that would be able to update daily the fastest and most cost effective routes between every stop, only to be told after 2 years that it wasn't possible.

Metrics like these are by and large Bullshit. They're there so someone in middle, or upper-middle management (what a joke those positions have become) can justify their jobs, and for no other reason. People have been doing these jobs for decades without these idiotic metrics, and doing them well. If America really wants to compete in a global market, they'll eliminate middle management. Everytime I hear another study that says the American worker wastes so many hours of productivity a week on some activity I want to gag. Just let people do their damn jobs.