Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired

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Post by ohjeez » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:08 PM UTC

Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
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Post by makach » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:40 PM UTC

An uncomfortable piece of fiction. AI will for sure shake things up.

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Post by ajkjk » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:46 PM UTC

makach wrote: post #2

An uncomfortable piece of fiction. AI will for sure shake things up.

All AI can do is make what's already happening worse. This has been the way of things for a long time now.

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

Any change requires massive bloodshed and revolution. It's a matter of when not if.

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Post by mentalpiracy » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

financial engineering has become a disaster.

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Post by christkv » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:50 PM UTC

Reminds me of the classics onion skit about Dell shutting down due to having reached its goal of becoming the biggest pc maker in the world. https://www.theonion.com/corporation-reaches-goal-shuts-down...

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Post by yinser » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

I can't decide if I'd prefer to hear a bunch of nonsense from an executive at the moment of being let go, or no explanation and just an email saying I'm part of a layoff.

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Post by dinkleberg » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

ajkjk wrote: post #3

makach wrote: post #2

An uncomfortable piece of fiction. AI will for sure shake things up.

All AI can do is make what's already happening worse. This has been the way of things for a long time now.

That isn't something to rejoice.

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Post by ipython » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:52 PM UTC

Ah. I'm old enough to remember the last time automation was going to eliminate all the jobs.. back in the 80's, when robots entered the chat and manufacturing jobs got outsourced to Japan. (side note, interesting to read that the nikkei finally surpassed the previous record set in 1993 or so).

But now, it's interesting because, well, for one, I'm actually old enough for it to matter to me now. And two, I actually work in a field that may be impacted.

Perhaps it's time to invoke Martin Niemöller's poem:

    First they came for the garment workers
    And I did not speak out
    Because I liked cheap clothes
    Then they came for the blue collar assembly line workers
    And I did not speak out
    Because I liked cheap cars
    Then they came for the journalists
    And I did not speak out
    Because I was not a journalist
    Then they came for me
    And there was no one left
    To speak out for me.

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Post by matusp » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:53 PM UTC

If the company fires hundreds or thousands of people and there is no visible dip in the productivity, is it really a bad thing? One thing that is baffling to me is that these companies can fire 10% of their workforce and they just keep on chugging without a hitch. The bullshit job phenomenon is the problem here.