What happens when middle management realizes the only jobs AI can actually do is their jobs?
That’s a sharp joke 😅 Sometimes sounding polished and confident gets mistaken for intelligence. Tone can be convincing, even when there’s not much depth behind it.
Well that checks since to anyone who does not have any ideas on anything, every idea sounds great.
I’m kind of a middle manager, and I get the hate. I like to think I’m different but I’m not entirely sure. At least my collaborators do appreciate me.
It makes sense now. Middle managers are the ones most impressed by AI. They think the AI is sentient because it is just like they are.
Is it possible that the way humanity has been dealing the with useless 1/3 of the population was to put them in middle-management positions? Consultants and the like?
Absolutely it is. Thats where we got the phrase “kicking them upstairs” from. Promote the useless guy to a position where they can’t actually do any damage.
If AI succeeds in replacing a lot of those “positions”, we’re going to face a tsunami of idiots.
Oh. Oh, oh my god. I think we need a space goat or something…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Graeber states that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and five types of entirely pointless jobs:
- Flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters;
- Goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists;
- Duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers with lost luggage;
- Box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, academic administration;[14]
- Taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals.[1][4]
Remember when thr pandemic happened and we did a lock down and everyone had to stay home instead of going to work and basically nothing terrible happened?
I see you, I appreciate you. Thank you.
That’s a somewhat odd statement coming from a stranger on the internet but I’m having one of those days where I’ll take anything that’s on offer. So thanks, I think I needed to hear that.
i wonder how much trouble you’d be in if you hung this at work
Depends on how long it takes for a middle manager to get someone to read it to them (and then explain it).
Claude summarize this meme for me. Explain it like I’m 5.
Usually they forward it to someone to explain, forward the reply to another underling to execute and copy/paste that one’s estimate or status update in the original mail’s relpy.
see that’s why ai is so useful, it saves hours coming up with an explanation and doesn’t even sound exasperated doing it.
well it’s a bit dehumanizing so I guess a fair amount of trouble
it’s fine, hr aren’t really sentient either
Corporate middle managers don’t use semicolons. They don’t even know when to use colons or apostrophes.
They taught AI to talk like HR reps.
Ewww…
Executives love AI because they can’t spell automation
It also learnt some therapy speak same applies.
Remember when they fired the guy from Google because he claimed AI was sentient?
