grepeMar 5

some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm can replace outright is the CEO.

today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen.

it was the most disturbed dystopian fucking thing i've experienced in my career of working for soul-crushing corporations.

Show threadFredricT 😷💉🌻🌈Mar 6
@grepe Was your presence mandatory? How was it controlled, if no management was present? How did the people present react? Did anybody leave?
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@FredricT people were eerily silent (stunned?). presence on that call was not mandratory and i left (presence in the office for certain amount of days is required). i was told that later they showed more slides.

@zaire people care about the results because their bonus (significant part of their compensation) is directly tied to them.

Mar 6 at 7:24pmWeb
Show threadziviMar 6

@grepe @FredricT sooo if decisions from higher up cause a drop in profits, all the employees get arbitrarily punished for it…?

that’s rather abusive, but then again abusive is to be expected

Show threadFredricT 😷💉🌻🌈Mar 7
@zaire @grepe I'd say it's still better than bonuses limited to bosses 🙄
But yeah, in all my jobs, I fought for equal pay, and equal bonuses: every raise or bonus given in percentage increases the gap.