Me showing up late to work because I’ve lost my spirit and can no longer motivate myself to excelling up the career path I dreamed so hard to enter.
I feel you, dude. Sometimes we need to go herd sheep for a year or two. It really makes you appreciate how intelligent the idiots we have to deal with at work are.
My team had smaller workload when it had triple the current staff. If they fire me, they will not meet any quota, so I can do bad work.
Me showing up to work knowing they’re short staffed and refuse to hire other people to cut down costs
Me showing up to work late and taking extra long breaks because they keep scheduling me over 40 hours while complaining about me doing too much overtime.
Don’t show up late. Get a raise or leave.
Arriving late is like giving yourself an hourly rate raise
Its reducing hours but getting no extra pay.
If you work less hours but make the same money, that’s a raise!
Even if you’re hourly, that’s zero minutes spent at work waiting for the shift to start. Nobody’s commute is perfect, it’s better to start getting paid the minute you arrive.
Salary is a thing.
Yes, so same pay, less hours. As above.
ts reducing hours but getting no extra pay.
No. Not the same at all.
Oh no, I have to work less time for the capitalist class to enjoy the same quality of life. How terrible! What? I even get more time for myself which increases my quality of life? This is truly a total disaster!!!
Meh. Everyone needs to optimize for their tolerance to bullshit. It’s a lot of bullshit to use leverage, or find another job, especially when employment is merely a means to an end.
Yup. Your employer is not your friend. At the end of the day you don’t owe them anything. Even more so in America. You are just a number. Act accordingly.
Yep. It took a little while, but after seeing “leadership” make dumb decision after dumb decision just because it helps them win their turf war with another department or aligns with their personal politics, I stopped caring. I do enough work that if I got hit by a bus, things would fall off the rails. I don’t think anyone above me realizes that. But I rest safe in the knowledge that if I do get fired someday for some bullshit reason, I’ll have the last laugh.
I’ve been in this position before. It was highly satisfying to find out from colleagues that the person they hired after me couldn’t even half do my old job.
What are you, the punctuality police?
If you are not replaceable because you do a ton of tasks other people can’t do, especially if you’re salaried, then it seems pretty fair to make your own time for things.
There are definitely other corners you shouldn’t cut when in that type of position, but being allowed to manage your own time is not one of them.
Managing your time is one thing. Doing the job of multiple people is foolish and should get a raise. If you are mission critical, get paid for it.
If you’re that mission critical, you’ll get the raise and still won’t have any dramas about punctuality.
But working less is the same as being paid more per hour, and I’d much rather work less than have a bit more money? Finding a job that is nominally 30 hours/week while paying as much as my current one would be quite hard.
Nah, I was working 3 weeks without a free day abroad, but that didn’t count for my time back, so I still needed to sit in the office, although I needed some rest and there wasn’t much to do for me in this week
My direct boss said, that I’m often coming in late, but I’m always here when needed, doesn’t matter what
And he said this as a positive thingIt really depends on the job though
With AI, this assumption is proving false day by day. Critical resources have been let go by my employer in the hope of matching their contributions with junior/fresh engineers + AI. I have heard similar stories from friends too.
However, I am yet to hear a real life instance of a company walking back and rehiring - something that I keep reading in news.
I do not envy the people who will have to maintain that giant ball of vibe-coded shit, assuming the company still exists in the future after that mess inevitably blows up spectacularly.
Survivorship bias i suspect, the company needs to fuck up big enough for it to be worth noting, survive that fuck-up and then admit enough wrongdoing (fiscally, if nothing else) to be able to be in the situation where a story like that would come out.
I think we’ll hear more over time, but as a thing that happened in the past.
Some companies might not survive to rehire, some might only just survive and rehiring isn’t on the cards.
Some might limp forwards and work through without rehires.
watching companies fail because they thought ai would work is lol
no industry with half a brain thinks ai is going to replace their top workers
as to having an example of real life regret look up ford
www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-ai-engineering-challenges-rehiring.amp (Sorry for fox link, the other one I have is paywalled)
I personally know people affected by this, they were let got and last week they got offers to fix a bunch of stuff that AI did and didn’t do
Thanks. This is one of the news articles I had in mind while writing my original comment.
That was a real life instance.
Is your employer by chance hiring for junior/fresh engineers who won’t use AI, or is using AI one of the job requirements?
No. They actually have an interview round where the candidate is given access to a coding agent and a problem to solve.
this is hilarious
this whole practice is going to age like shit
Interesting. We laid off all of our junior engineers, and only kept senior people who are now expected to use AI for junior engineer tasks, then review it all and fix it all. Would be easier for me to just write it all myself rather than babysit some AI and argue with it when it fucks up.
When I was in college I worked at FedEx, and I’d leave early all the time to get to get extra studying done or spend more time in the lab. I knew they’d never get rid of me because there were already so few people who wanted to work at 2 in the morning in the middle of nowhere, and I was one of only a few who could actually handle 3 trucks without a bunch of missed packages and misloads.
I have 7+ AI agentic agents doing work for over 30+ people. All of these workflows are designed by me. If I don’t show up to a meeting because I need a break, they can’t do anything. Because if I ever left, they are fucked.
Honestly I rather they let me hire some human employees so I can train some of them. This entire company infrastructure lives and dies by me.
If their company relies on the output of a bunch of “agentic agents” then it sounds like they’re fucked regardless.
Yeah, no other human can write prompts to produce code not even you know the inner workings of.
Fuck off prompt monkey
the dude who made the song code monkey needs to update it
Jonathan Coulton! And yes he does lol
make it insulting because i’m sure as a creative just loves ai
Where have you been for the last three years?
Dude makes an account, waits three years to use it, and… every comment is glorifying AI.
Hmmm
