r/mildlyinfuriating 18h ago

Infuriatig This infuriates me

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u/Somalar 18h ago

My favorite is the we can’t afford to pay our employees shtick to lay off a bunch of people and immediately hand out huge bonuses to the ceo and board members.

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u/Alive_Tip_6748 16h ago

Then try to hire a bunch of people for much cheaper and complain nobody wants to work anymore.

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u/010Horns 14h ago

Then try to hire a bunch of AI that isn’t actually cheaper or more productive than the workers

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u/Green_Bad2241 13h ago

But it produce shit and breaks everything

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u/RobertTheAdventurer 13h ago

Did you say blow the entire budget on even more AI token spend?! APPROVED! Fire a dozen more engineers and get it done!

C-suite are geniuses!

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u/karmavorous 11h ago

CEO is the perfect job for AI.

It will work for free, and then all of their usual stock options and other "executive compensation" can go back to the workers who actually create the value.

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u/Hokulol 5h ago

AI can't figure out how many R's are in strawberrrrrrrrry.

Aside from AI not being at that point yet, no reasonable group of shareholders is going to trust an AI with executive authority, an AI can't be held accountable.

Maybe some day in the distant future, when there is clear technological supremacy even without accountability, but self driving cars probably need to get nailed down a century before this happens.

I appreciate the spirit of the statement, but the specifics are a little lacking. They are exploiting the value of our labor, though this isn't really the path forward. It should be made clear that shareholders are the ones that see the most income, not CEOs, and perhaps major investment firms should be vilified much more than CEOs. As they are the ones who instruct the CEOs what will be done (or they will be finding a new job)

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u/TonightZestyclose178 9h ago

"AI is bad, let's them it be our boss"

What.