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Microsoft laid off 15,000+ workers in 2025 while investing $80B in AI. Automation is rising—and tired is coming for everyone’s job.
#AI automation#AI Performance Reviews#Automation in the Workplace#Future of Jobs#Job Loss 2025#Microsoft layoffs#Satya Nadella#Tech Industry News#Upskilling Required#Workforce Disruption
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Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell

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"National conversation" sounds like one of those meaningless buzzphrases – until you live through one. The first one I really participated in actively was the national conversation – the global conversation – about privacy following the Snowden revelations.
This all went down when my daughter was five, and as my wife and I talked about the news, our kid naturally grew curious about it. I had to literally "explain like I'm five" global mass surveillance:
https://locusmag.com/2014/05/cory-doctorow-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-mass-surveillance/
But parenting is a two-way street, so even as I was explaining surveillance to my kid, my own experiences raising a child changed how I thought about surveillance. Obviously I knew about many of the harms that surveillance brings, but parenting helped me viscerally appreciate one of the least-discussed, most important aspects of being watched: how it compromises being your authentic self:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance
As I wrote then:
There are times when she is working right at the limits of her abilities – drawing or dancing or writing or singing or building – and she catches me watching her and gets this look of mingled embarrassment and exasperation, and then she changes back to some task where she has more mastery. No one – not even a small child – likes to look foolish in front of other people.
Learning, growth, and fulfillment all require a zone of privacy, a time and place where we are not observed. Far from making us accountable, continuous, fine-grained surveillance by authority figures just scares us into living a cramped, inauthentic version of ourselves, where growth is all but impossible. Others have observed the role this plays in right-wing culture war bullshit: "an armed society is a polite society" is code for "people who make me feel uncomfortable just by existing should be terrorized into hiding their authentic selves from me." The point of Don't Say Gay laws and anti-trans bills isn't to eliminate gender nonconformity – it's to drive it into hiding.
Given all this, it's no surprise that workers who face workplace surveillance in the name of "wellness" feel unwell as a result:
https://www.ifow.org/publications/what-impact-does-exposure-to-workplace-technologies-have-on-workers-quality-of-life-briefing-paper
As the Future of Work Institute found in its study, some technologies – systems that make it easier to collaborate and communicate with colleagues – increase workers' sense of wellbeing. But wearables and AI tools make workers feel significantly worse:
https://assets-global.website-files.com/64d5f73a7fc5e8a240310c4d/65eef23e188fb988d1f19e58_Tech%20Exposure%20and%20Worker%20Wellbeing%20-%20Full%20WP%20-%20Final.pdf
Workers who reported these negative feelings confirmed that these tools make them feel "monitored." I mean, of course they do. Even where these tools are nominally designed to help you do your job better, they're also explicitly designed to help your boss keep track of you from moment to moment. As Brandon Vigliarolo writes for The Register, these are the same bosses who have been boasting to their investors about their plans to fire their workers and replace them with AI:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/advanced_workplace_tech_study/
"Bossware" is a key example of the shitty rainbow of "disciplinary technology," tools that exist to take away human agency by making it easier to surveil and control its users:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#bossware
Bossware is one of the stages of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve: the process by which abusive and immiserating technologies progress up the privilege gradient as their proponents refine and normalize dystopian technologies in order to impose them on wider and wider audiences:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware
The kinds of metrics that bossware gathers might be useful to workers, but only if the workers get to decide when, whether and how to share that data with other people. Microsoft Office helps you catch typos by underlining words its dictionary doesn't recognize; the cloud-based, "AI-powered" Office365 tells your boss that you're the 11th-worst speller in your division and uses "sentiment analysis" to predict whether you are likely to cause trouble:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
Two hundred years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines – they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood – correctly – that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk/
A hundred years ago, the "Taylorites" picked up where those mill owners left off: choreographing workers' movements to the finest degree in a pseudoscientific effort to produce a kind of kabuki of boss-pleasing robotic efficiency. The new, AI-based Taylorism goes even further, allowing bosses to automatically blacklist gig workers who refuse to cross picket-lines, monitor "self-employed" call center operators in their own homes, and monitor the eyeballs of Amazon drivers:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men
AI-based monitoring technologies dock workers' wages, suspend them, and even fire them, and when workers object, they're stuck arguing with a chatbot that is the apotheosis of Computer Says No:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no
There's plenty of research about AI successfully "augmenting" workers, making them more productive and I'm the last person to say that automation can't help you get more done:
https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/augmented-workforce
But without understanding how AI augments class warfare – disciplining workers with a scale, speed and granularity beyond the sadistic fantasies of even the most micromanaging asshole boss – this research is meaningless.
The irony of bosses imposing monitoring to improve "wellness" and stave off "burnout" is that nothing is more exhausting, more immiserating, more infuriating than being continuously watched and judged.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying
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HIVE CITY FESTIVAL EXTRAVAGANZA – WHERE DIGNITY GETS BURIED IN A SHALLOW GRAVE 🍖⚙️
"Bring your Thrones, your questionable morals, and your complete lack of regard for human safety! Because if you don’t, we’ll have one of our rusty servitors throw your ass into an oven with a carrot shoved straight up your rectum."
🍖 1. CORPSE-STARCH COOK-OFF – WHERE EVERY BITE TASTES LIKE A LABOR VIOLATION 🍽️☠️
💀 Tagline: "If you can still chew, you’re either lucky or heavily augmented."
🔹 What’s on the "menu" (read: crimes against digestion)?
Reprocessed Nutrient Ration Blocks – Freshly extruded from the Administratum’s most aggressive recycling program!
Fried "Grox" Nuggets – A legally distinct meat product! (Warning: DNA testing not recommended.)
Arbites Surprise Stew – It’s called "Surprise" because you won’t know if it’s food or a missing person’s case!
💡 Festival Highlights:
"Guess The Meat" Challenge – If you guess it right, you get a free extra ration. If you guess it wrong, you get a citation for heresy and a punch to the gut!
Deep-Fried Horror Show – If it fits in the fryer, it gets served. Bring your enemies! Bring your servitors! Bring your own damn foot!
Hive Chef Deathmatch – Can YOU create a meal so rancid it physically incapacitates a rival chef? First one to pass out loses!
📢 ATTENDEE WARNING: All meals are legally classified as "edible" but not "safe." If your esophagus melts, that’s a YOU problem.
🤖 2. SERVITOR REFURBISHMENT EXPO – WHERE BROKEN MEATBAGS BECOME "PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS" 🛠️☠️
💀 Tagline: "Still got a heartbeat? Fixable. Screaming in agony? Also fixable."
🔹 Services Offered (Totally Not War Crimes):
"Barely Legal" Cogitator Rewiring – Does your servitor "accidentally" remember its past life? We’ll fix that—by lobotomizing it so hard its last thought is static.
Cybernetic Bargain Bin – We’ve got prosthetics, augmetics, and the occasional random limb. No, we don’t care if it matches your skin tone. It works, shut the fuck up.
"Last-Chance Reboot" Station – If your servitor is making weird noises, we’ll “fix” it by welding its mouth shut. Boom. Problem solved.
💡 Festival Highlights:
Rust Bucket Swap Meet – Trade your half-dead servitor for one that’s only slightly haunted!
Best-Looking Monstrosity Contest – Winner gets a lifetime supply of oil rations and a half-functional chainsword!
Live Servo-Skull Auction – Some whisper tactical secrets, some just scream. Either way, you’re getting a deal!
📢 WARNING: All servitors are sold "as is." If your new model starts leaking coolant or reciting Imperial poetry at 3 AM, we don’t wanna hear about it.
🦠 3. NURGLE’S BACK-ALLEY BUFFET – FOOD THAT’S TECHNICALLY ALIVE 🤢🧫
💀 Tagline: "You don’t eat this food. This food eats you."
🔹 What’s on the menu (besides impending diarrhea and an Inquisitorial investigation)?
Spore-Fermented Grox Sausage – Now with 80% less spontaneous combustion!
Nurgle’s "Secret Sauce" Casserole – Chunky. Lumpy. Makes your insides rot faster than a hive factory worker’s lungs.
Warp-Fried Maggot Delight – Every bite is an "experience!" (Translation: You’re gonna see some shit. Literally.)
💡 Festival Highlights:
"What’s That Smell?" Game – Hint: It’s either an unwashed servitor or something that used to be human.
Plague Roulette – Eat a dish. If you live, you win. If you don’t, well… welcome to the Grandfather’s loving embrace!
Stomach Purge Olympics – Who can hold down their meal the longest? Place your bets!
📢 LEGAL NOTICE: All food items contain at least three unidentifiable ingredients. If it gives you an extra limb, you get to keep it.
⚙️ 4. IMPERIAL REJECTS AUCTION – BUY USED WAR GEAR AND HOPE FOR THE BEST 🔧🔫
💀 Tagline: "Weapons so janky, even the Guard said ‘nah’ to using them."
🔹 What’s up for grabs?
Battle-Damaged Bolt Pistols – You ever seen a gun backfire so hard it turns into a grenade? No? You will.
Half-Repaired Chain Swords – Still got bits of the last guy stuck in the teeth. Authentic!
Mystery Servo-Skulls – Might scream, might recite the Emperor’s Litany, might tell you where the bodies are buried!
💡 Festival Highlights:
Best Jury-Rigged Weapon Contest – If it fires without killing the user, you win!
Arbites Raid Speedrun – Can you make a sale before the cuffs snap shut?
Mystery Crate Raffle – Could be relics. Could be junk. Could be a pissed-off servitor who just remembered how to kill. Good luck!
📢 WARNING: If your purchase malfunctions and vaporizes your own skull, that’s on YOU.
🩸 5. THE RED MARKET – "GENUINELY ACQUIRED" ORGANS & AUGMENTS 🚑🦴
💀 Tagline: "If it still bleeds, it’s still fresh!"
🔹 What’s for sale?
Lightly-Used Kidneys – Perfect for replacing your own, or for starting a collection!
Discount Augmetics – Once belonged to a noble—before he had a "falling accident."
Imperial Guard "Donations" – They didn’t "quit" the battlefield, but they’re definitely not using these anymore!
💡 Festival Highlights:
Lung Capacity Showdown – Who can survive the longest with only one lung?
Surprise DNA Testing – Is your new organ human? Roll a D6 to find out!
"Genuine" Clone Flash Sale – Buy it, raise it, and hope it doesn’t eat you in your sleep!
📢 NOTICE: No, we will NOT be issuing refunds if your new liver starts whispering in High Gothic at night.
WHICH HIVE CITY FESTIVAL ARE YOU ATTENDING?
🔥 REBLOG if you’d risk your life for a good deal! 💬 COMMENT with which cursed meal or reject servitor you’d buy! 🚀 FOLLOW for more grimdark horrors, disgusting markets, and Warhammer meme depravity!
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10 Ways Technology is Boosting Workplace Productivity
In the contemporary professional landscape, productivity is the currency of success. Businesses and individuals alike are constantly seeking innovative strategies to optimize output, streamline workflows, and maximize efficiency. At the forefront of this revolution is technology, which has fundamentally transformed how we work, collaborate, and manage our time. Far from being a mere convenience,…
#AI in Workplace#artificial intelligence#automation#business efficiency#Business Growth#Business Intelligence#Business Management#Business Solutions#Business Technology#cloud computing#Collaboration Tools#cybersecurity#data analytics#Data-Driven Decisions#Digital Collaboration#Digital Document Management#digital tools#digital transformation#Digital Workplace#Efficiency Tools#Employee Efficiency#Employee Engagement Technology#Employee Training Platforms#Enterprise Software#future of work#Hybrid Work#machine learning#Mobile Productivity#Modern Workplace#Office Technology
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Artificial Intelligence [AI] in 2025: Jobs, Tools, Automation & Career Ultimate Article
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Definition and Concept Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, reasoning, perception, and language understanding. These systems use algorithms and data to make decisions, often without human intervention, enabling them to…
#AI automation tools#AI career opportunities#AI in business automation#AI in the workplace 2025#AI job market trends#AI job roles and salaries#AI jobs 2025#AI revolution 2025#ai tools#AI tools for productivity#ai websites#AI-powered job search tools#artificial intelligence#Artificial intelligence career guide#Best AI tools 2025#chat gpt#chatgpt#chatgpt prompts for productivity#Future of AI jobs#google bard ai website#Machine learning jobs 2025#Top AI certifications 2025#top artificial intelligence companies in india listed on nse
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Robotics and Automation: Redefining Industries and Job Opportunities
Robotics and automation are revolutionizing Industries and job landscapes, transforming factories, warehouses, and operating rooms. These technologies enable precise machinery assembly, autonomous drone retrieval, and unparalleled precision in surgery. They are not science fiction but the pulse of innovation.

Industries are shedding their old skins, embracing the boundless capabilities of Automation. Manufacturing plants are adopting robotic arms that assemble complex products with surgical precision, slashing error rates and boosting production beyond human limitations. Agriculture, too, is undergoing a Digital Metamorphosis, with autonomous tractors navigating fields autonomously, ensuring optimal planting and harvesting. The evidence is resounding automation doesn’t replace industries; it elevates them.

But let’s talk numbers hard, impressive facts that showcase the prowess of Robotics and Automation. Did you know that industrial robots can boost j by a staggering 85%? That’s not just a number; it’s a testament to the extraordinary potential of these machines to elevate industries to heights previously unattainable. And when we look at job opportunities, the narrative isn’t one of loss but transformation. For every routine task that a robot takes over, a universe of opportunities blooms for individuals skilled in designing, Programming, and maintaining these robotic wonders.
The story of Robotics and automation is one of collaboration of humans and machines joining forces to achieve feats that neither could accomplish alone. Picture a warehouse where cobots glide alongside their human counterparts, tackling heavy lifting while the humans orchestrate the symphony of operations. It’s a dance of ingenuity, where Technology enhances human potential instead of overshadowing it.

Did you know that 65% of companies adopting automation have reported increased Employee Satisfaction? As machines handle mundane tasks, human workers are freed to explore creativity, innovation, and problem-solving, breathing new life into their roles.
While the road to this transformative Future is undeniably paved with challenges, think about the need for reskilling and adapting to the rapid pace of change the possibilities that unfold are breathtaking. And the beauty of it all? It’s not a distant fantasy; it’s happening right now, right here.

From Tesla’s advanced robotic manufacturing to Amazon’s intricate delivery network, the robots are not just coming they’re already here, shaping the world we live in and forging a path towards an exciting and dynamic tomorrow.
In the grand tapestry of progress, the threads of robotics and automation are weaving a story of boundless potential. Industries are letting go of previous limitations, and career opportunities are expanding into uncharted areas. It’s a story about how technology and people can work together to open up new possibilities. In light of this, keep in mind that robotics and automation are already here and hold great promise when you consider the environment around you.
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.” — Bill Gates
#artificial intelligence#automation#robotics#robots#tech#technology#education#school#future#digital world#coding for kids#programming#coding#coder#ai#jobs#workplace#tumblog#futurism#android#machine#innovation
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Biometric Attendance Software: Precision Tracking for a Modern Workplace
Still Enforcing Attendance on Registers? That’s So Last Year!
Seriously? Employees lining up to sign their names in a book each morning... or worse, someone signing into the book for a friend who is running late? Seriously outdated practices that could be so insecure and create time loss, errors, and misuse!
Now, imagine being a smarter, faster, and more effective way to track your employee's working time.
Enter Biometric Attendance — your new, modern solution to managing old attendance chaos.
What is Biometric Attendance Software?
Biometric Software is a broad category of systems that use the unique and individual physical characteristics of each person. Whether it be using fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, or even iris matching, biometric systems simply allow an employee to record their attendance. Biometric systems don't require cards or pins—just a touch or a glance.
There are no guesses or delays. Employees clock in, the information syncs automatically, and everything is recorded real time and accurate, secure, and totally worry-free.
Features of Biometric Attendance Software
🧬 Fingerprint & Facial Recognition – Biometric attendance software bid farewell to buddy punching and bogus logins.
⏱️ Live Syncing – Attendance data is updated in real-time across platforms.
📍 Geo-Fencing + GPS – Great for field staff; allows location based check-ins.
📊 Instant Reports – Daily, weekly, or monthly data at the click of a button.
📆 Shift & Leave Integrations – Smart biometric attendance software are compatible with your existing schedule and leave policies.
🔐 Best-in-class security – Your data is encrypted and reputable secure locations to protect everything.
Why More Companies Are Making The Change?
Biometric systems have made it easier than ever for companies to receive the much needed accuracy and accountability that many have lacked for years. No longer does HR have to scramble through time sheet data as tenants tend to feel more fair. And Leadership get to take a look through the crystal ball into time and productivity with absolute confidence.
Conclusion: The Future of Attendance Is in Your Hands
Old methods still work but they do not have legs. Employers are now looking for quick, clean, and secure systems. Robust Biometric Attendance Software is a quick, clean, secure system; it will save time, build trust, and keep things ticking along.
So don't delay. Start considering Biometric Attendance Software today to inject accuracy, transparency, and ease into your daily processes. A more intelligent system not only benefits the business, it benefits the people who work there too.
#Smart Biometric Attendance Software#Biometric Attendance Software#Employee Attendance Management#Attendance Tracking Software#Workplace Automation#Smart HR Software#Facial Recognition Attendance#Digital Workplace Software
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A Stanford University study with 1,500 worker participants shows where workers feel AI can have a positive impact, and where it shouldn't be used to replace human jobs.
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Smart Lighting & Automation for Banking Tech MNC Office | Chennai Project by Ideeaz
Explore how Ideeaz Automation transformed a leading Banking Technology MNC’s Chennai office with advanced smart lighting and IoT-based automation. The project showcases seamless lighting control, energy efficiency, and a modern workspace experience through intelligent technology.
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Manus AI: 5 Game-Changing Ways to Transform the Way You Work
Did you know the average worker spends 30% of their week on boring tasks? This really slows down work. Manus AI is here to fix that. It’s a smart artificial intelligence tool that makes work better, cuts down on boring tasks, and helps teams be more creative. Manus AI uses smart tech to help you write, summarize, plan, and talk better. It makes emails, blogs, and reports fast. It also shortens…
#AI Productivity Tools#Artificial Intelligence at Work#Automation technologies#Cutting-Edge AI Solutions#Digital Transformation Solutions#Enhancing Workflow Efficiency#Future of Workspaces#Manus AI#Next-Gen Work Tools#Workplace Innovation
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Uncanny valley in an AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
Brian Merchant has published stories from workers about AI ruining or replacing jobs, and perhaps the most telling statement from one of the stories was someone who said: "Looking back, I wish my goal hadn't been to persuade managers but instead to organize fellow workers."
I like worker stories a lot because there's usually something in them that's entirely relatable, and yet also something that you find out about another profession or industry that's just mind-blowing, and often not in a good way. I remember describing a demoralizing job I had to David Graeber, a job he was familiar with from another angle (as described in his book Utopia of Rules). He said to me that he thought someone should probably write a sequel to Bullshit Jobs on what it’s like to "have a job that you know is just intrinsically wrong", and he said “hopefully not me!” and then unfortunately he died a few months after that. The problem is that such a book would likely surpass Debt: The First 5000 Years, as well as Ulysses and War & Peace, if you put all 3 together, because so many of today's jobs are intrinsically wrong, or at least have something intrinsically wrong with them.
Here are a few other eyebrow raising lines from stories that I recommend reading, if you have a stomach and appetite for horror.
Blood in the Machine AI Killed My Job: Tech workers Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs. Brian Merchant Jun 25, 2025 "The speech and movement wasn't as clean as what I see in videos now, but it was close enough to leave me with an eerie sensation." (...) "These young engineers - squandering their opportunities to learn how things actually work - would briefly glance at the AI-generated code and/or explanation messages and continue producing more code when "it looks okay."" (...) "We haven't hit an actual recession in stock-prices due to aggressive cost and stock-price engineering everywhere, and cost-engineering typically tanks internal worker satisfaction." (...) "The irony here is two-fold: one, it does not seem that the people who left were victims of a turn to "vibe coding" and I suspect that the "AI efficiency" was used as an excuse to make us seem innovative even during this crisis. Two, this is a company whose product desperately needs real human care." (...) "It feels like every week there's a new sales pitch from a company claiming that their AI tool will solve all our problems—companies are desperate to claw back their AI investment, and they're hoping to find easy marks in the public sector." (...) "Looking back, I wish my goal hadn't been to persuade managers but instead to organize fellow workers." (...) "I found out that a colleague who had been struggling with a simple programming task for over a month—and refusing frequent offers for help—was struggling because they were trying to prompt an LLM for the solution and trying to understand the LLM's irrelevant and poorly-organized output." (...) "So I would say the private and public sector have this in common: the higher up you go in the organization, the more enthusiastic people are about "AI,” and the less they understand about the software, and (not coincidentally) the less they understand what their department actually does." (...) "Obviously we are told that we need to review the AI outputs, but it is starting to kill my enjoyment for my work; I love the creative problem solving aspect to programming, and now the majority of that work is trying to be passed onto AI, with me as the reviewer of the AI's work." (...) "Real use cases where AI can be used to do work that regular old programming could not are so rare that when I discovered one two weeks ago, I asked for a raise in the same breath as the pitch." (...) "There’s a meme going on Pinterest that I believe sums up this moment: “We wanted robots to clean the dishes and do our laundry, so we could draw pictures and write stories. Instead they gave us robots to draw pictures and write stories, so we could clean dishes and do laundry.”" (...) "I would stop short of saying that the existence of genAI tools within the company is directly increasing the per capita workload, but an argument could be made of it indirectly accomplishing that. The net result is not a lightening of the load as has been so often promised."
I don't really mind doing the laundry, though I wish I could spend more time drawing and painting. But nothing compares to how much I do mind AI slop; because it's not just aesthetically displeasing, and it is offensively off-putting, but it's also a time waster in so many ways, and I value my time.
But the thing I so often come back to is that it seems like it's turning out that even with what little automation is being introduced with the AI bonanza, it's the same old story. They said they automated secretaries and administrative assistants, but that's not really what happened, I know because I've worked in jobs where I had to do work that I had done in the past as a clerk or an administrative assistant or secretary, but there I was, I then had to do it as a professional as an extra in my job, because the employer refused to have enough clerical assistance or because of funding structures. That's a big part of the story about automation, that it seems to not be about robots actually doing the jobs, not actually replacing the jobs, but tech tools that increasingly allow employers to reduce job positions by shifting more arduous work onto people not as well equipped to do it, and having to do it while also doing what's in their actual expertise. I’ve seen ads recently promoting the idea to employers that employees expected to travel on business should be doing their own travel bookings, which is incredibly frustrating and time consuming work to pile on top of someone with a tight schedule, expertise in something else, and having to travel for work!
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch. The lack of robust overtime laws, and salary position manipulations being unregulated, allows for more work to be loaded onto less people, and AI LLM chatbot tools are just another log on that fire, rather than being a way to douse the problem of being overworked.
"Looking back, I wish my goal hadn't been to persuade managers but instead to organize fellow workers."
One thing is for sure, management is never going to fix the problems of laborer interests.
#labor#ai hype#workplace#jobs#employers#tech tycoons#tech hype#tech tools#robots coming for the jobs#robots coming for the wrong jobs#ai slop#brian merchant#david graeber#workers#employees#co-workers#engineers#software engineers#programmers#LLMs#automation
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The Invisible Assistant: How AI Is Transforming the Modern Desk Job
(A dramatized account based on common use cases seen in office and administrative work For Maya Patel, being a project coordinator at a mid-sized marketing agency used to mean drowning in spreadsheets, chasing down meeting invites, and copy-pasting status updates across half a dozen platforms. “It wasn’t glamorous,” she said. “It was digital janitorial work, basically.” Then her company…
#AI assistants#AI in the workplace#Claude AI#desk job automation#digital transformation#ethical AI#human AI collaboration#modern work#office workflow#productivity tools#report automation#scheduling tools#workplace efficiency
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SUCKS TO BE YOU, DUMBASS: THE SERVITOR FIRE SALE! 🤖💀🎈🥳🎉
💀 "Once a man, now a mindless bio-mechanical mop bitch. What a downgrade."
Congratulations, pathetic wage slave! The Administratum has way too many malfunctioning, borderline-psychotic servitors cluttering the storage bays, and instead of tossing them into a plasma furnace (too expensive), we’re giving YOU the opportunity to own one of these miserable lobotomized freaks for a fraction of the price!
Why mop the floors yourself when you can have a half-rotten ex-convict, priest, or failed psyker scrub them while silently contemplating its own existence? Not that it CAN contemplate anymore—that part got scooped out with a rusty ice cream scoop and replaced with the cognitive ability of a malfunctioning Roomba.
🛠 FEATURES (IF YOU CAN CALL THEM THAT):
💀 Pre-Lobotomized for YOUR Convenience! No emotions, no memories, just pure, unfiltered compliance. Until it snaps.
🧼 Obedience-Optimized Neural Scouring! It follows orders with cold, dead precision. Unless it’s having a "bad day," then it follows its own internal "kill everything" protocol.
🤖 "Durable" Design! This servitor can withstand extreme conditions, including toxic waste exposure, minor plasma burns, and existential dread.
⚠️ Cost-Effective Labor Alternative! Why pay a real worker when you can get a walking horror movie reject for cheap?
📢 WARNING: If your servitor begins weeping oil, do NOT acknowledge it. That means it remembers.
😂 SUCKS TO BE YOU, DUMBASS (SERVITOR EDITION)!
🔹 "Used to be a scholar, now its greatest achievement is scrubbing grime off a Mechanicus toilet." 🔹 "Was once a father of three, now its only thoughts are ‘MOP GOES SWISH’ and static." 🔹 "Once had dreams, now it has mandatory cybernetic restraints and an unpaid lifetime job in janitorial services." 🔹 "Former noble, convicted of treason—bet he didn’t see ‘living mop with no human rights’ in his future!" 🔹 "Probably used to be someone important. Now it's just a legally reclassified bucket of spare parts with a mop handle."
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: WE DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SAFETY
💀 "This servitor may enter a catatonic state at random intervals. If it stops moving, kick it. If it starts moving TOO much, run." 💀 "Should your servitor begin muttering old prayers, ignore it. The Omnissiah has abandoned it, just like the rest of us." 💀 "In rare cases, servitors may attempt to ‘finish’ whatever task they were doing before lobotomization. If it was a chef, you may find yourself ‘accidentally’ diced into stew. Be aware." 💀 "If your servitor suddenly points at you and starts screaming, that’s just residual brain function. It’ll stop once it remembers it’s not a person anymore." 💀 "Once a servitor, always a servitor. No refunds. No returns. No escape."
💬 CUSTOMER REVIEWS (FROM PEOPLE STILL ALIVE!):
⭐ "I asked mine to clean my office. It threw itself into a meat grinder instead. Honestly, 10/10, saved me paperwork." ⭐ "My servitor kept staring at me, so I poked it. Now my fingers are missing. I deserved that, I guess." ⭐ "It worked great for a week before it tried to baptize my entire family in hydraulic fluid. Still better than hiring human workers." ⭐ "I named my servitor Dave. Dave killed my cat. I don’t know if it was on purpose. 4/5 stars." ⭐ "My servitor started crying, but since it doesn’t have tear ducts, I think that was just its face leaking. Anyway, it sweeps real good."
🔥 FINAL WARNING: YOU THINK WE GIVE A SHIT? BUY OR DON’T, YOUR CHOICE.
🔥 Like what you see? Don’t just hoard it—Reblog it. Spread the gospel. Amplify the chaos.
📌 Follow for more—I drop this kind of gold daily. Don’t be the last one to catch on.
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