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

[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...

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@evacide Sadly this only works because cars have such strict quality/safety requirements (as a whole.) Most sectors don't. Still, I hope it sends a powerful enough message that others might take note.

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@brad That's a new one. I've heard Fix Or Repair Daily and Found On Road Dead
@evacide

[su_liam@mas.to]

@ricardoharvin @evacide It’s almost like they think market demand just magically appears. How many shitty trucks can you sell to a handful of billionaires?

[su_liam@mas.to]

@evacide Old Hank Ford was a shitty old guy, but he knew where his market was coming from.

A good example of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons was billionaires thinking other billionaires will pay their customers.

[sil@mastodon.social]

@evacide a chance for Ford engineers to make an old joke become real

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@kmck @evacide yeah exactly this. There was no mistake, everyone know exactly what they were doing. Bunch of people got a big fat bonus for the initial layoffs and won't see any blowback for the consequences.

Grinds my gears that everyone is parroting the "haha, we didn't know, oopsie so silly!" line

[filobus@sociale.network]

@evacide the ones with shares don't know nothing about production, for them it's only a money in money out process
For this reason ai for them seems a so good solution
But still they don't get it, for them it's all a issue of abstract numbers

[aatch@mastodon.nz]

@nazokiyoubinbou @Arapalla @brad @evacide I had a decent Ford once. It was made by Kia.

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@evacide I guess they couldn't afford us white beards

[alex9003@piaille.fr]

@evacide Hey

[riley@toot.cat]

@Enema_Cowboy Meritocracy is a superposition of two reasonings:

• This managing job is so simple that it doesn't matter that it's given to somebody's nephew.

• This managing job is so hard that we have to weed out everybody who has wasted their career in non-managing jobs.

@jamesmarshall @evacide

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@su_liam @kmck @evacide

Well, you and I are hardly the right kind of people. Only the right kind of people can be careless get away with it.