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

[demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@SecureOwl and fire all their employees!

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@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."

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@SecureOwl Can I quote you on that?

[effariwhy@theforkiverse.com]

@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.

[secureowl@infosec.exchange]

@drwho yes

[felis_catus_domesticus@mstdn.party]

@SecureOwl

[pfm@edolas.world]

@SecureOwl They are also the same people refusing you international travel to cooperate with coworkers abroad.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@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

1/

[npars01@mstdn.social]

2/

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.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

3/

"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

[x41h@infosec.exchange]

@SecureOwl such a good point

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@SecureOwl Where in Ohio? Asking for static-electricity-prone friends in Ohio.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@SecureOwl Thank you very much.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@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

[stinerman@mastodon.social]

@SecureOwl I had this same thought earlier this week. Great minds!

[stinerman@mastodon.social]

@faoluin @SecureOwl probably the new data centers east of Columbus.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@SecureOwl

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@Felis_Catus_Domesticus @SecureOwl with respect, what about onion

[felis_catus_domesticus@mstdn.party]

@falcennial @SecureOwl

onions? what is onions, precious?