The private sector is next

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tech sector executives have actually said they believe 99% of white collar workers will be unnecessary in 2-4 years due to AI. Not enough jobs is an understatement.

Sure, tech execs are bullish on their own product. People also thought radio would be dead a few years after TV came along.

[Anonymous]

It totally is! Lay offs have hit most of my private sector friends. Unemployment is going to skyrocket.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tech sector executives have actually said they believe 99% of white collar workers will be unnecessary in 2-4 years due to AI. Not enough jobs is an understatement.

That's frankly terrifying. While we should be able to reap the benefits of new technology, I am concerned that human beings need a "job" or a purpose in life -- we can't just let robots and AI do all the work. I do not doubt, however, that the waves of job losses due to automation and AI in the coming years is going to be staggering. We are going to have way too many people for the number of jobs in America that remain.

Humans are the only species that seek to make themself irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Another day, another hysterical post. There's no "next", private sector has been struggling since the rates went up. There have been headcount freezes at some companies since the PANDEMIC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another hysterical post. There's no "next", private sector has been struggling since the rates went up. There have been headcount freezes at some companies since the PANDEMIC.

+1

I work at a ‘big 4’ that did a mass layoff last year. Guess what - the vast majority of people found jobs quickly. The senior people it took longer, obviously, but there are jobs to be had for quality people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tech sector executives have actually said they believe 99% of white collar workers will be unnecessary in 2-4 years due to AI. Not enough jobs is an understatement.

Sure, tech execs are bullish on their own product. People also thought radio would be dead a few years after TV came along.

Video did kill the radio star, though.

[Anonymous]

Dopey thread. Private sector is ALWAYS on watch and at risk of layoffs. The public sector needs to grow up.

[Anonymous]

If you work in the private sector, Leon Musk is going to fire all of you next. Just wait.

[Anonymous]

I work in tech and never recovered from outsourcing to Indian H1Bs and offshore.

There are hundreds of applicants for every position.

[Anonymous]

Make America more unemployed. Way to kill the economy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dopey thread. Private sector is ALWAYS on watch and at risk of layoffs. The public sector needs to grow up.

This is backwards thinking. Just because the private sector used to have job security and doesn't anymore, doesn't mean that public sector should be like that too.

The public sector leads in labor protections and some private sector follows. Not the other way around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone on the left celebrating Feds getting the boot. It's all the deplorable MAGAs doing the celebrating. And let them have their little bit of fun because the bad shit is about to hit the fan for them.

Also, I think every Liberal who is in a position of power in the private sector should make a personal vow to only downsize the known MAGAs on your team and only hire Dems.

I know I'll be doing a social media deep dive before each interview and if I see a red hat on any social media profile, buh-bye. And who is gonna stop me? Ya'll got rid of all the big bad DEI monitors. Enjoy unemployment, losers.

Professional conservatives have always known to keep a low profile because of vindictiveness like this, esp. in DC area. Professional liberals have not so they are very easy to spot and eliminate.

Political extremism is generally correlated with poor job performance vs. educated moderates and that’s especially true for leftists in the private sector since they are often ideologically opposed to their company’s efforts to maximize profit. So fire away, and I’m sure others will do the same, and the chips will fall where they may.

Private sector employment is at will and people get fired all the time. I’ve survived waves and waves of layoffs at this point. Most everyone finds a new job pretty easily since that’s how it rolls, GFC excepted.

I’m well aware my company wants to pay me as little as they can and is happy to fire me the moment the cost-benefit analysis shifts. I work here because it rationally maximizes my income per hours worked taking and is otherwise tolerable from a culture and quality of work standpoint.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone on the left celebrating Feds getting the boot. It's all the deplorable MAGAs doing the celebrating. And let them have their little bit of fun because the bad shit is about to hit the fan for them.

Also, I think every Liberal who is in a position of power in the private sector should make a personal vow to only downsize the known MAGAs on your team and only hire Dems.

I know I'll be doing a social media deep dive before each interview and if I see a red hat on any social media profile, buh-bye. And who is gonna stop me? Ya'll got rid of all the big bad DEI monitors. Enjoy unemployment, losers.

Professional conservatives have always known to keep a low profile because of vindictiveness like this, esp. in DC area. Professional liberals have not so they are very easy to spot and eliminate.

Political extremism is generally correlated with poor job performance vs. educated moderates and that’s especially true for leftists in the private sector since they are often ideologically opposed to their company’s efforts to maximize profit. So fire away, and I’m sure others will do the same, and the chips will fall where they may.

Private sector employment is at will and people get fired all the time. I’ve survived waves and waves of layoffs at this point. Most everyone finds a new job pretty easily since that’s how it rolls, GFC excepted.

I’m well aware my company wants to pay me as little as they can and is happy to fire me the moment the cost-benefit analysis shifts. I work here because it rationally maximizes my income per hours worked taking and is otherwise tolerable from a culture and quality of work standpoint.

Some have survived waves of layoffs … until they start to hit their 40s ans 50s. Also, some top companies cut the bottom performers even if they are among the best performers I. The world.

[Anonymous]

Private sector jobs have never been safe. Nothing new.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The privates sector is next. Some of us gleefully rejoicing at the humiliating hiring of federal workers should temper our inhumane reaction to this nonsense.

Yes you will argue of this is what we go through in the private sector. You miss the point. You are just used to being treated like garbage.

If you have been paying attention, companies hate workers more and more. The more money they male the more they hate us and the least they want to pay us. They have been bitc***g and mo***g about the wage growth we got post COVID and the small period where workers slightly had the upper band in their choice of employment. Then they started hating remote workers coming up with all kind of nonsensical studies about it's ineffectiveness.

It's shameful that corporations (corporations are people too remember that line) have managed to turn us into hating ourselves to the point where we turn against each other.

Honestly ask yourself. How has the existence of a fed worker render your life miserable?

Which is why it is incomprehensible that the Democrats decided boys in girls sports and defund the police were more important than an actual labor movement.

Stop lying, the little baby red hats were the ones that couldn’t stop thinking about little boys and girls and fantasizing about what happens in bathrooms.

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Republicans are such perverts. Stop obsessing over kids' genitalia.