Unfortunately, it is paywalled. Can you copy the text for the rest of us?

Corporations are firing and laying off labor, but that labor is not being done by AI-- it’s simply falling on those who are still employed or not getting done at all.

I resigned from an international public accounting firm due to having AI forced on very sensitive and delicate projects in order to lower costs. As a professional, every alarm bell went off and I left because I could be held liable for their terrible managerial decisions.

They told me they were sad to see me go, but AI is the future and hope I changed my mind-- this was all back in April.

Not only did AI fail to do a fraction of the work we were told it was going to do, it caused over $2MM in client damages that the firm then used to justify the firing of the remaining members of the projects’ team for failing to properly supervise the AI, even though every manager struggles to open a PDF.

AI is not the future because it is literally only capable of looking backwards.

AI is a performative regurgitation of information that real people put the time and energy into gathering, distilling, refining, and presenting to others to evaluate and contribute to.

Even worse, AI demonstrably makes its users dependent and intellectually lazy. If you think about it, the more prevalent AI usage becomes, the less and less capable people will be left to maintain it. And to all the fools crying out that AI will take care of itself or robots will, I say:

All LLMs are hallucinating and going psychotic, and that is not something that can be fixed due to the very nature of how LLMs work.

AI is not intelligent. And while it could be, that would take far too much energy and resources to make cost-effective machines with as many neural connections present in the brain of an average MAGA voter-- and that is already a super a low bar for most of us to clear.

It’s infuriating! 😬

She hasn’t failed.

She has galvanized an entire fucking movement, facing death threats the whole damn way.

It’s also not a zero sum game, we need quality leaders at all levels-- mayors, directors, board members, senators, etc.

We need as many as we can get, not just the presidency.

Precisely where I was.

I was the third finance director for that division in two years, which is a terrible sign.

When interviewing, always ask about those who last filled the position and for how long.

I accepted a position at Amazon as a finance director for one of their many divisions, and it was hands down the most toxic work environment I have ever experienced-- and I’ve worked in public accounting for other a decade, so that’s saying something.

I resigned within a couple weeks and found myself a much better job elsewhere.

I worked as an associate for a public accounting firm that does not ever advertise itself, because we specialized serving ultra wealthy individuals and you could only engage us if you knew of us through such circles.

One day, our office got a call from the personal assistant to someone very wealthy who is known for abusing ketamine, asking for an engagement on a very unusual and complex tax situation. A call was set up to discuss the scope of the engagement, because the partners have always been very particular about what clients they will take on, because really wealthy individuals are often very unpleasant, stressful, & frustrating to work with.

Apparently during the call the assistant was patronizing, like we should feel flattered that we were chosen by m’lord, and demanded non-negotiable terms that we would conduct our work exactly as told with no questions asked. They had even sent their own engagement letter for us to sign with them ahead of the call, and it was completely absurd.

The partners patiently explained that is not possible, as that is not how this type of professional relationship works, and declined the engagement.

The assistant was losing their mind, shocked we would turn such an opportunity down. They offered even more money and even some compromise, but the way they initiated the interaction set the tone to expect throughout the professional relationship.

I was very impressed by the partners in the sense that I knew they were incredibly greedy people, but they are so fucking intelligent and had such a great instinct to avoid clients that were going to end up costing way more money than they brought in, because us associates would absolutely refuse to deal with bullshit because it was already a super stressful job, and we were way too talented and incredibly expensive to replace if we walked off.

The self restraint must have been legendary, and exactly the right call, because all the professionals that do end up accepting end up getting embroiled in costly lawsuits and getting thrown under the bus.

Anyway, I hated that job and I wish I that quit sooner than I did. I got such bad burnout, I developed PTSD and now I prefer just living like a hobo rather than go back out there.

PS: Fuck capitalism and fuck Amazon. I refuse to buy anything from them ever again. Cancelled my credit card and told them to go fuck themselves. Fascists.

Goddamned bastard.

I think the reason why Luigi is considered a saint is because he took one for the team, sparing the masses from police violence.

I think you are absolutely right.

It would be much simpler to just extend to them charitable expenditures, and only that.

The more charity they do, the less taxes they pay.

We can change the tax code to allow tax exemptions for religious organizations with income/assets below a certain thresholds, with punitive measures (actual jail time) for hiding assets.

And you’d be morons to believe any promises Trump makes that do not wildly enrich him & his cronies…

I hope Starlink gets hacked and the satellites crash in the ocean.

Exactly.

It’s all meant to make people outraged and distracted, and we all keep falling for it.

Please let’s not entertain completely absurd shit like that.

Imagine every time your boomer aunt posted that same shit Trump does on her Facebook it ended up in the news-- it’s clearly delusional and giving it attention gives it validity even if it is only criticisms.

Facts:

DXC fired ALL of their IT technicians servicing the Redmond Microsoft campus and replaced them with “Phoenix”, an AI chatbot that would guide users into troubleshooting their own IT problems.

The Phoenix chatbot was immediately rejected by users and completely useless at executing its intended purpose.

DXC then scrambled to rehire the technicians they fired with no success, as they quickly moved on to new jobs. New hires struggled to understand the building layouts and room devices because there was no one to pass on that knowledge.

Soon thereafter, DXC lost their multi-million dollar contract and all the new hires who worked really hard to try to were summarily dismissed.

I hate those octopuses print things, they’re fucking everywhere.

What do you even do with those things? Put them on a shelve to catch dust and shed micro plastics?

Draw. Sculpt. Paint. Write a story.

We don’t need more “it’s just cool” plastic stuff.

I’m always torn when I see comments like this because I agree our country needs all the shaming and rejection in order to drive the average American to act. The shaming DOES help-- it cannot be denied.

But at the same time, being working class American is so fucking brutal, and it’s FAR worse when you are part of a marginalized group.

I am American but I did not grow up in the US, and it’s so obvious they all have been robbed of their sense of community because we are all being constantly bombarded by fear mongering narratives meant to drive up profits.

For example, kids are expected to move out at 18 because parents are weirdly concerned that their children wil turn into lazy and unproductive members of society. In reality, life is much easier when multiple generations live in the same home because even if you get on each other’s nerves, they are all at least in the same team like helping raise the children together.

Instead, they want everyone to be independent from their families because that’s more people paying rent, buying cars, products and services-- same reason why Netflix doesn’t want you sharing your account: so they can sell your friends and family their own to drive those profits up.

What is happening to America is happening to other countries as well. It’s not a moral failing unique to Americans.

It’s just that Americans already had weak public institutions as a younger nation and a very painful history full of racism, genocide, and exploitation that already was causing us great difficulty coming together to make the country a better place for everyone, and billionaires saw that as an opportunity to turn us against each other and profit from our fears.

If you don’t help the good parts of America in our battle against the bad parts of America, we will lose and you will have yet another Russia making the problems in your own country worse and worse until find yourself in the exact same position as we are.

Get involved in local politics in your country now. Don’t wait.

We all need to unite and fight against the worse parts of humanity. We’re all so tired of capitalism and exploitation. We want better. Please help us put an end to it wherever you can.

Do not conflate the people with the corporations.

And let’s not ignore the fact that many nations were happy to buy and profit until the USA government turned into a bargain sale for billionaires.

It’s so infuriating.

The reward for doing your job efficiently is more more fucking work.

Learned that the hard way.