Oregon’s Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be self-service. The bill, responding to industry staffing shortages, also prohibits charging more for full-service than self-service, likely leading to the phasing out of full-service pumps.
So are about 80% of the rest of the jobs.
Pumping gas may be one of the absolute dumbest jobs though. We don’t need to pay people for the sake of paying them…