Mike Sheward
the same people demanding you get back to the office to better collaborate in person as only humans can are the same people desperate to replace everyone with some code that runs on a server in ohio
Feb 27 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesFeb 27

@SecureOwl

Welcome to capitalism commie,
Child Labor on the left.
Poverty wages on the right.
Do make sure you die statistically exactly at the time you will become useless.

Show threaddemofoxFeb 27
@SecureOwl and fire all their employees!
Show threadDarwin WoodkaFeb 27

@SecureOwl

"I want you here where I can tell you what to do and watch you do it but I also want to replace you with a machine."

Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 27

@darwinwoodka @SecureOwl

The real reasons:
1. "Back to the office" is a covert way to get women with children to resign.

Affordable childcare is very hard to find because it's a high exposure job (covid, measles, etc) thanks to RFK's antivaxxers.

2. Men don't want to change the toner in the printer, plan staff events, tidy the bathrooms, wash their coffee cups, or make coffee for the team.

All that "invisible work" that women in the workplace are expected to do.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240313-invisible-emotional-labour-women-in-workplace

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'The extra shift': The unpaid emotional labour expected of women at work

Women largely bear the brunt of invisible workplace responsibilities. The work is taxing – and uncompensated.

BBC
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 27

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3. Commercial leasing is collapsing.

https://fortune.com/2024/02/13/commercial-real-estate-development-office-building-remote-work/

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-office-occupancy-faces-black-hole-remote-work-says-green-street-2024-03-22/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adigaskell/2023/03/05/how-remote-work-has-affected-real-estate-values/

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/work-from-home-wipe-out-800-billion-office-values

4. Fossil fuel industry wants long commutes.

https://www.hcamag.com/ca/specialization/benefits/employees-want-commute-expenses-covered-in-exchange-for-office-return/484425

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/90percent-of-companies-say-theyll-return-to-the-office-by-the-end-of-2024.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/opinion/elon-musk-remote-work.html

5. Municipal revenue from traffic enforcement collapsed. Traffic fines are a tax on commuters.

https://tj.news/new-brunswick/beefed-up-traffic-enforcement-could-give-cities-cash-minister

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/23/utah-traffic-fines-speeding-tickets-report/

6. AI is a threat to hang over worker's heads for wage suppression & mass layoffs.

‘Office is toxic’: Cranes disappear nationwide as commercial real estate crunch hits downtowns

“Office is toxic. A lot of people had their projects based on low interest rates, and today that actually just doesn’t pencil.”

Fortune
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 27

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"Don't ask for a cost of living increase to your salaries or we will AI your job."

https://americancompass.org/mutual-disadvantage/

https://equitablegrowth.org/how-artificial-intelligence-uncouples-hard-work-from-fair-wages-through-surveillance-pay-practices-and-how-to-fix-it/

https://americancompass.org/the-other-southern-strategy/

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-an-attack-from-above-on-wages

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ai-isnt-taking-jobs-but-it-may-be-limiting-pay-growth-study-finds-06bc0277

Mutual Disadvantage - American Compass

Why predatory investment and labor suppression are a poor long-term strategy.

American Compass
Show threadKristyFeb 27
@SecureOwl and what's the point in collaborating in person when they've given us mountains of work collaborating with an AI Agent. These do nothing office people should be the first to be replaced by AI.
Show threadFelis_Catus_DomesticusFeb 27
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Show threadmillennial fulcrumFeb 28
@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @SecureOwl with respect, what about onion
Show threadFelis_Catus_DomesticusFeb 28

@falcennial @SecureOwl

onions? what is onions, precious?

Show threadpfm 🧘  Feb 27
@SecureOwl They are also the same people refusing you international travel to cooperate with coworkers abroad.
Show threadSoftwarewolfFeb 27
@SecureOwl Where in Ohio? Asking for static-electricity-prone friends in Ohio.
Show threadNathan A. StineFeb 28
@faoluin @SecureOwl probably the new data centers east of Columbus.
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 27

@SecureOwl

The server is in Saudi Arabia

A place where they execute dissidents.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/02/microsoft-confirms-saudi-arabia-datacenter-region-available-for-customers-to-run-cloud-workloads-from-q4-2026/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/saudi-arabia-eyes-data-embassies-amid-sovereign-ai-push.html

https://restofworld.org/2025/gulf-ai-water-crisis/

These jobs could have been American jobs
https://www.intelligentcio.com/me/2023/12/15/oracle-will-train-50000-saudi-nationals-in-artificial-intelligence-and-other-latest-digital-technologies/

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/02/microsoft-accelerates-ai-skilling-in-saudi-arabia-helping-3-million-people-acquire-ai-skills-by-2030/

Saudi Arabia is the new Russian Internet Research Agency
https://www.wpr.org/news/racially-targeted-voter-suppression-ads-online-2016-election-turnout-wisconsin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/us-cyber-command-russia.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=63307

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-biden-trump-election-interference-1.5952076

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/technology/russia-misinformation-midterms.html

Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there

Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

Business Insider
Show threadNathan A. StineFeb 28
@SecureOwl I had this same thought earlier this week. Great minds!
Show threadfuzzyfuzzyfungusFeb 28
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Show threadTroed SångbergFeb 28
@SecureOwl So true - and in both cases it's only an excuse in front of their investors for why they have to let people go. "People just didn't want to return to office!" and "We're pivoting to much faster AI dev!" sound so much better than "We're not doing well and need to cut staff".