Time to slack off and deliver the minimum possible then
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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?
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.
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?
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.
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 donβt get a cut. They dream of the day they actually get to have slaves again. Most of them donβt see us as people; they see us as things that siphon off money that needs to be in their pockets. Money we donβt deserve because weβre 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 weβre 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
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Teradata, a global cloud software company, told its 5,100 employees in January not to expect an annual salary raise this year as it reallocate the budget toward AI investments, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider and not previously reported.
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
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?"
Assuming similar input effort, a trebuchet is more durable and efficient. Better for throwing more CEOs while consuming fewer resources.
Hmmm... This brings up an interesting question for the physics nerds out there.
The desired termination of the CEO is the sudden stop at the end of the flight.
When using a catapult or trebuchet, excessive force exerted during launch would terminate the CEO immediately. This would deprive the CEO of his last luxury flight. .
What the the maximum distance a catapult or trebuchet can throw the CEO while achieving this result? Assume the CEO weighs 100kg's and is 165cm tall.
probably make at least a couple mad enough to really fuck some shit up.
Doesn't matter if they're mad or not. The company is demanding they use LLMs to vibe code their products, shit's about to be fucked even if they get on board.
just quit on mass and save yourselves the time, it'll likely collapse the company as an added bonus
The expression is "en masse". It's French for "in great quantity".
Americans can't do anything en masse.
Could of told me sooner
On mass is literally en masse in English . . .
It literally isn't. Literally, "on" doesn't translate to "en", as it literally means "in". Literally, the "masse" in French here doesn't refer to literal "mass" as in a quantity of literal matter to be literally measured, but literally an uncountable concept like a literal crowd, for example.
So, which mass are you quitting on?
And in any case, to be literally correct the expression taken from another literal language should be literally italicized.
En means like eight different things in french depending on context, so does on in english. Mass also means large numbers of people.
Everyone knew exactly what he meant because it's pretty much a word for word translation of the french expression...
But sure man, it's really important everyone knows you know the original french expression.
Sweet. Time to stop giving a shit about work, and just shit at work. (Prepositions are amazing!)
A day without taking a shit at work is money in your boss's pocket.
Teradata's focus for 2026 is to "win in the market with AI," CEO Steve McMillan said in the memo
Oh boy... he is just chugging the AI kool-aid.
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).
a sign that a massive layoff is coming is: not having enough foronuses/raises, or if the ceo funds themselves with the cuts.
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.
cool wake me up to when they actaully do that.
Not the point of the thread Canadian, you'll notice my initial comment calls them spineless cowards.
Why even have a legal system only for companies to battle their lawyers at a game of taking things from us? Why not just put hypercapitalism even more and allow them to buy politicians and laws? Or wait
Because any money won is split amongst the members of the class action. So, the larger is literally pennies for the aggrieved, unless itβs literally $5 per member. Is that really motivating? $5 is a joke, whatβs the value thatβs worth a squeeze? $100?
I don't think the payout is as important as taking money away from tech giants is. It isn't an efficient usage of the money, of course that money could be spent to greater effect than just splitting it up piecemeal. Yes, it likely is a pittance compared to what billionaires are worth. However if literally everyone struck these people at the same time, class action lawsuits being brought against all tech giants alongside general strikes β suddenly they're hemorrhaging money outside of the lawsuits and their technofascist bubble pops.
Certainly naive to believe β as I've said the people I'm talking about are mostly spineless cowards that are contributing directly to fascism. I have no misgivings about whether what I want to happen will happen or not.
it must be entirely coincidental that employee performance dropped by 10% across the board
United we stand, divided we fall. Gotta fight these pricks united.
Yup, the immediate response should be a walk out.
This CEO prolly thinks he's generous cos he ain't firing them (yet) lol. So the peasant employees should be grateful for having still a job in the first place lol
That kind of crap is one reason I became a contractor ages ago and didn't look back.
None of you are getting bonuses this year because we're heavily investing into replacing all of you
#2020s_suck



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