A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
3 months ago by sanitation to c/technology
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”
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.
This is so well written and spot on. Exactly what needs to be done or not done. Kudos.
Hahahha I'd show up to work and do jack squat all day.
Weird the CIA would do that I feel like lol, we're they at one point actually based?
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.
a fascists govt that doesnt play ball with the USA that is.
"The AI will handle it, that's why they make the Big Bucks."
Inflation adjusted productivity.
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.
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.
That's what the rich dickhead bunkers in remote locations are for, my friend.
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
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.
That's future CEOs problem
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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.
This is how they get voluntary terminations that don't require severance.
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.
Quiet quitting is when you lazy it up until they fire you.
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.
"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.
its also called constructive dismissal.
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.
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).
Americans can't do anything en masse.
Thy can, when it comes to their body weight lol
Son of a birch
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!)
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.
Well yeah, doing actual research or understanding a topic would cut into his golf time
That kind of crap is one reason I became a contractor ages ago and didn't look back.
OE is king.
Overemployed
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.
Class action lawsuits don't mean anything in the US ngl.
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 it’s literally $5 per member. Is that really motivating? $5 is a joke, what’s the value that’s 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 — suddenly they're hemorrhaging money outside of the lawsuits and their technofascist bubble pops.
Certainly naive to believe — 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
Immediately following by forming a union
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
They did four round of layoffs last year
Yep that's basically what they said at my job too.
Not sure; probably not.
Lol you get a 50k bonus, 50k anthropic credits that is lmao
Build your own AI agent and sell it to your company. It only works when you are around, and profit the money, they are investing it with.
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Time to slack off and deliver the minimum possible then
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