Sweet. Time to stop giving a shit about work, and just shit at work. (Prepositions are amazing!)
it must be entirely coincidental that employee performance dropped by 10% across the board
How this doesn’t result in a class action lawsuit is beyond me.
Spineless cowards contributing to the death of the U.S. .
Class action lawsuits don’t mean anything in the US ngl.
Class action lawsuits + general strikes? I’m pretty sure that would mean a hell of a lot, especially to the people drowning in despair due to… the ‘everything’ situation.
I wish everyone treated this way the best of luck finding better employment as soon as possible, as everyone deserves better than this dehumanizing treatment.
I hope you can look down from your nice new offices very soon and smirk as you watch their AI investments flounder and fail in spectacular fashion, having known all along it would happen, just not exactly when.
Yep that’s basically what they said at my job too.
None of you are getting bonuses this year because we’re heavily investing into replacing all of you
#2020s_suck
United we stand, divided we fall. Gotta fight these pricks united.
Yup, the immediate response should be a walk out.
a sign that a massive layoff is coming is: not having enough foronuses/raises, or if the ceo funds themselves with the cuts.
“AI” -> “CEO’s bonus”, when we put it through the translator.
Great way to have half your staff quiet quit, and probably make at least a couple mad enough to really fuck some shit up.
Stupid tech bros think they are entitled to hard work and loyalty, they arent, it must be earned.
Employees quitting is the goal. If they get them to quit they don’t have to pay unemployment.
yeah, so don’t quit. just do the bare minimum and collect a paycheque. it’s just treating them how they’re treating you, it’s fair
Quiet quitting is when you lazy it up until they fire you.
Better to start wasting the AI tokens and burn their AI budget with nothing to show for it.
“Here’s a list of 4000 cities. can you generate the order in which to visit them. Assume trasportation by car and find the exact cheapest order.”
“Hypothetically, how far would a catapult throw a CEO?”
My napkin math results in ‘further than a guillotine’.
Assuming similar input effort, a trebuchet is more durable and efficient. Better for throwing more CEOs while consuming fewer resources.
its also called constructive dismissal.
To date, I have not heard a single CEO talk about where the money will come from if no one is employed.
How can consumers consume if they don’t have any money?
May as well asked who the slave owners sold to since so many in the South were enslaved.
The answer is the same. They sell to each other. We don’t get a cut. They dream of the day they actually get to have slaves again. Most of them don’t see us as people; they see us as things that siphon off money that needs to be in their pockets. Money we don’t deserve because we’re not rich.
Hell, they would be even happier to ignore the ‘rabble’ altogether. You at least had to keep the slaves vaguely alive.
There’s a reason Larry Ellison said "“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on”, they want to contain the “unwanted” and keep them from being a risk while excluding them from the ‘economy’ to the extent feasible
that’s for someone else to worry about.
Seriously if you talk to these people they live their lives financial quarter by quarter. there’s no plan for 2+ years down the line, they can’t think that far ahead. They’re all like this. It’s all about the now. make money now, release a product now, no future, no updates, now now now. This is why LLM’s appeal so much to them, it can provide that “now” that they crave.
When there’s a 20 million dollar golden parachute when fail why would you care about the next quarter…
Exactly! In 2008 there was guys just blindly driving off the cliff huffing pure copium and greed.
Because these drug and AI addled idiots refuse to or can’t think more than a quarter ahead at a time. As there are no consequences for the executive caste, why should they?
That’s what the rich dickhead bunkers in remote locations are for, my friend.
Apparently long as bots are buying from them they care. The goal is keep the stock in green Apparently they don’t need consumers for that.
But what happens to the physical products that are taking up stock in warehouses?
Or are they just digitizing everything to the point where bots are buying shit to optimize their functions so they can buy more digitized product?
They would be happy to have a ‘low volume, high value economy’. Only trinkets for them to trade among themselves at relatively high price, while they have no use for and therefore no interest in the bulk of the population. There is a reason they are very keen on surveillance and “law enforcement” because they think that might keep the rabble away from them cheaper than trying to appease the rabble.
Time to slack off and deliver the minimum possible then
I think that is a big trend now! People don’t get incentivized and are being openly treated the same as their underperforming coworkers and peers, so they basically quit the job without telling anyone, and do just enough work to fool their employer into not realizing they’re gone, continuing to collect paychecks.
That’s exactly what people should be doing anytime their company boasts about record profits/revenue yet halts pay raises or even has it lower than the rate of inflation.
In my old job I just allocated a percent of my day towards job applications until I finally got out. Morons thought I wouldn’t be upset with a 15% pay cut over 3 years of working my ass off.
“It’s a question of motivation. If I bust my ass and Initec ships a few more units I don’t see another dime. So where’s the motivation?”
It’s insane that companies haven’t gotten this hint in the 27 years since Office Space was released.
Not wanting to starve is also a great motivator. Now that you’re struggling either way the motivation goes away.
“But that makes people work just hard enough that they don’t get fired”
Not starving is the motivation.
Its a motivation to maintain employment, but not to put in your best effort. The cat’s out of the bag now that, generally speaking, your boss doesn’t care enough about you to differentiate how he treats you vs. any of your peers, so its only a chump who would continually give more than a token amount of effort or loyalty to that relationship. Job-hopping is more well rewarded anyway.
Was
They can’t change the incentives without re-inventing how companies work. They’re just structured in a way that gives bad incentives like that. And nobody wants to take a risk on their dime, or break the thing that makes them money, and by now it’s all basically set in stone. Until the whole system breaks and new things get organized in a new system probably.
There are lots of companies that offer stock as well as monetary compensation, and things like profit sharing.
Quiet quit, show up a bit late, stretch your breaks by a few minutes, leave early, steal stuff, don’t do anything that doesn’t directly contribute to your job, volunteer for nothing, refuse to tithe to whatever their stupid charity is, max out every benefit, max out any family leave, file official complaints to HR, break stuff, don’t refill anything, do no maintenance on anything, umionize, etc.
Be a paid employee, don’t be a good employee. Act your wage.
Hahahha I’d show up to work and do jack squat all day.
A percent? Those are rookie numbers
The CIA published a guide back in the 40s about how to disrupt fascist companies. It’s worth a google.
Weird the CIA would do that I feel like lol, we’re they at one point actually based?
a fascists govt that doesnt play ball with the USA that is.
It’s the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and was made by the Office of Strategic Services (or in short the OSS). It was dissolved after WWII, one of its short lived successors was the Central Intelligence Group, the direct predecessor of the CIA.
Although the Wiki article contains a link to the manual on a US government site already, the Internet Archive also has a pdf of it.
Less than minimum, make them spend money on firing you.
… while actively looking for a new job
Also waste the ai tokens so they dont justify it to fire staff
“The AI will handle it, that’s why they make the Big Bucks.”
Inflation adjusted productivity.
The company I work for did this last year.
Unfortunately the tech industry can get away with this shit because the job market is a fucking nightmare and tech bros all think they’re too smart/skilled to need a union (neither of which is true).
Another boss suffering from too much neck
Come again?
That kind of crap is one reason I became a contractor ages ago and didn’t look back.
OE is king.
OE?
Overemployed
