Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires.

[ricardoharvin@mstdn.social]

@ohmu @evacide

In my opinion, that all comes down to, in the long term, reducing the power of the workers which ultimately leads to increasing control of labor costs in every way possible.

Short term losses have nearly always resulted in long term gains when it comes to the sustained assaults on worker power, i.e. rights

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@ricardoharvin
We might just disagree and the distinction probably doesn't matter.
It's been useful to be aware of in public sector labor negotiation. A lot of it is about costs, for sure. But some of it is that exectives emotionally need to feel powerful. Example: Return to office pushes. It is much more expensive maintaining workplaces. But the executives get itchy when they go too long not seeing staff at desks when they walk around the building.

[bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org]

@evacide Oops, sorry, I missed it! (I must have missed it when I read and then maybe searched for grey rather than gray, but I thought I searched for beard).

Anyway, thanks for putting in quotes, although maybe better not to promulgate their bad word choice?

Thank you again for sharing the article!

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@evacide
> Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.

Knowing that a CEO's job is to be that stupid, still did not prepare me from psychic damage from this sentence…

[seedsignal@mastodon.social]

@dzwiedziu @evacide

Trying inventing multiple, modular, utterly complementary solutions that make "bad" requirements effectively impossible:

- only to discover that no one wants it
- until and unless they can steal it from you
- for their own commodification and profit

Which is why I eat my popcorn and chuckle, softly. Me and my bad attitude love getting every, single receipt these days.

Bring it daily lately.

🪔

[dirkhh@social.afront.org]

@evacide
and the fascinating thing about this is that the execs who laid off the people got bonuses and awards for it. And the same execs who then solved that problem by hiring back some of the people got bonuses and awards for it. And the people who tried to keep things afloat while the experienced workers were not available to help most likely got poor performance reviews because "they didn't prompt the AI correctly".

This is oversimplifying things, but structurally it's what I see happening in quite a few places. Layoffs justified by AI, sky-rocketing workloads for the remaining workforce combined with lower performance ratings / lower rewards, and generous rewards for the execs perpetrating the nonsense.

[chrisholladay@mastodon.social]

@evacide aka we fucked up !!

[unsponsoredgeek@kolektiva.social]

@evacide
* Laughs in #TacomaGame * (Part II)
#ObsolescenceDay #Union

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[peachfront@toot.community]

@evacide

awesome news, now bring back the small sedan

[nil@critters.gay]

@emmohamed123456@mastodon.social @evacide@hachyderm.io You can help a Palestinian family with your reach. Please do the right thing.

[ricardoharvin@mstdn.social]

@ohmu It seems you're focused more on individual and specific scenarios whereas I'm focused on the full and complete history of work and of corporate business, generally.

The systems and how they maintain and consolidate control, power, and money, not how or why individuals do so.

[withinity@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@evacide if that were me you best believe my salary is 2x what it was last time.

[ricardoharvin@mstdn.social]

@ohmu What I'm talking about basically applies throughout all of history, in different ways, but especially in modern times with the rise of corporations.

[katzedecimal@kind.social]

@evacide
I'm surprised they admitted they were wrong. Also a little impressed. That hasnt been in fashion among corporations for hmm some decades now?

[soozcat@raphus.social]

@evacide Worked about as well as tying a belt to the steering wheel, putting a brick on the gas pedal and going to sleep in the back seat.

[stevenray@sfba.social]

@kmck @evacide maybe that’d happen in Japan, but not in the U.S.

[alan@mindly.social]

@evacide I hope those engineers held out for a 50% increase in compensation.

[stephaniemoore@mastodon.online]

@evacide Bookmarking that as the latest exhibit

[su_liam@mas.to]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @kmck @evacide Oh, I’m certain that if I’m careless at work or just unlucky, there will be consequences.

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@Arapalla @brad @evacide My 2013 car has been going strong. I've really had virtually no troubles with it at all. Mind you, it was made before some of the most recent enshittification...