Dare Obasanjo

I’d love tech CEOs to stick to a lane. Either AI makes workers so much more productive that they need to do layoffs or there’s so much work to and so few people to do it that everyone needs to work nights and weekends.

Now it just comes across that layoffs are happening for economic reasons with AI as a convenient cover story.

https://www.itpro.com/business/business-strategy/infosys-narayana-murthy-996-72-hour-week

Nov 28 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadChris PetrilliNov 28
@carnage4life it’s really hard to keep all your lies straight.
Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Nov 28
@carnage4life this is perfectly consistent: keep workers in line, fearful for their jobs, working harder, while paying fewer of them. The more work you can squeeze out of fewer employees, the more you save.
Show threadTom Fakes (he/him)Nov 28

@carnage4life So the co-founder of this company can't do math either - 996 IS 70 hours a week (those extra 2 hours isn't likely to be a big differentiator)

The bullshit runs deep here, bring a shovel

Show threadTim RichardsNov 28
@carnage4life I can't see for a moment how working a 72 hour week would result in quality output. You'd be exhausted, and quite a bit of that time would produce low quality work at best.
Show threadCybarbieNov 28
@carnage4life Infosys wet dream: 70 billable hours of AI generated muck per clown. Maybe AI should mean the end of companies like Infosys and HCL and local American workers can tell the clanker what to do.
Show threadStephen P.Nov 29
@carnage4life I find an article saying "Tech companies are now asking for long hours" to be rather disingenuous; I've been seeing this cycle for my whole time in IT. Hell, I was working for a company that got acquired by InfoSys in the early 00's. At the big "welcome to Infosys" meeting the CEO told us a story about how an senior Infosys manager was shocked by the dishevelment of a subordinate. The subordinate explained that he'd been working so hard he was sleeping under his desk. (1/2)
Show threadStephen P.Nov 29
@carnage4life (2/2) I was appalled by a few things in this story. #1: That people were working such long hours. #2: The manager didn't know how hard people were working. #3 - and the biggie for me: ***The CEO thought this was a good story to tell us***.
Show threadWhatisgoingonNov 29

@carnage4life the current trendy tech is just a welcome excuse to trigger a market salary reset cycle.

The gist: Tell everyone that you become obsolete and fire them. Make shareholders believe that. If a whole industry does it the median salary will drop. Make working conditions worse as people will complain less when they fear being fired next. Rehire people for less and with worse working conditions. Repeat with next trendy tech when needed.

Show threadAndii אַנדִֽיNov 29
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The irony is that an AI could do the CEO job.
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Nov 29
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All the businessmen and politicians calling for a longer work week are crazy. Worker productivity on an hourly basis has gone up a huge amount over the last 50 years, with very little corresponding rise in real (inflation-adjusted) pay. The employers are already making a killing on us. If they're not satisfied with that, too bad.
The really stupid part is that many studies have shown that productivity goes way down when workers are forced to work longer hours.
Show threadTim BNov 29
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And I'm like:
Bitch, pay your taxes.
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesDec 5

@carnage4life

Work-work balance