Comment on Meta and Salesforce are looking to re-hire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot

• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For me it was this:

  Salesforce execs, and Benioff in particular, have over the years encouraged workers to view their colleagues and the company itself as “Ohana,” a Hawaiian term referring to family.

  Any company that tries to pull that type of psychological shit is just looking to take advantage of workers.

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  • DLSchichtl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed, but the AI comment is a little worrying to me. It reeks of “We just realized we can train an AI on your data to do your job. On an unrelated note, would you like your job back?”

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• Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re missing out then. AI tech jobs might as well be fucking voodoo to the suits still. If you can write a basic pytorch app, you can get paid a huge amount of money to do very little work at the moment.

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  • DLSchichtl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You misunderstood, I am reading that as not rehiring AI tech jobs, but rehiring with the intent of using the employee’s data to train AI. Like they laid them off and said “Oh shit, come back. We forgot to steal your data before we shitcanned ya.”

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