New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Solidarity, brothers and sisters! If you or your co-workers find yourselves in this situation make sure you hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything – if you accept a return offer. Make them (the C-class, the billionaires who did this) pay in at least some way.

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  • rozodru@pie.andmc.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yes if they want you back you NEED to demand higher pay. Many companies, even some of my clients, are trying to pull the “we need you back but we’re going to pay less than what we previously paid you” bullshit thinking devs will be desperate enough to take it.

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    • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Then it sounds like you don’t really need me back.”

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve found that people, I’m assuming young folks, don’t understand that you have to ask for money.

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This. Use their desperation to your benefits.

    Demand no probation since you were previously a good employee. Demand higher pay, better benefits et al, hell, a signing bonus and backpay for your unfair dismissal, go as far as you can. Remember, they just realised that they need you more than you need them.

    Use that knowledge to your advantage.

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    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Extra week of vacation too. Don’t forget you need time off.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re gonna want that higher pay when you’re spending your days unraveling spaghetti code written by AI.

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    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly. Like the COBOL coders around Y2K did.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything

    Not immediately. Take the job now and get the finances under control. But don’t stop interviewing and applying, and move from a position of strength into a better job when it comes around. And if you’re back at the old job that ditched you, then ditching them isn’t so hard this time.

    Always take care of the basic needs - money for food, money for clothing, money for shelter - before moving up the Maslow pyramid.

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• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate to say “I told you so” but…

  Wait, no, I don’t.

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  … at the same or higher salary, r-r-right?

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• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And this surprised nobody

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stupid CEOs seem to be stupid suckers/marks for so much “corporate astrology”, mesmerized into a greedy stupid stupor by the same old soothing, stupid magic spell: “more automation… less meatbags…”

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ai sucks, it can do some averaging but that’s not what actual jobs are

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. The issue isn’t what Ai can do, but more that CEO/CIOs have been sold magic beans.

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