Fire full time employee, cited AI. Hire them back as gig worker, contractor.
Profit ???!!!??
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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“but in a gig style setup”
“I will only bring them back if we can do it in a way that treats them with as little dignity as possible”
The entire country and maybe world will be gig workers by 2060. They’ve finally figured out the cheat code. You “get to be your own boss”, they get to shed a ton of liability, pay you absolutely no benefits whatsoever, stop paying for workers comp, etc
Ah fuck, our universe is heading towards Elysium-esque. Never Fifth Element, never Star Trek, closer to Atlas Shrugged and Real Steel, but I really hoped it wouldn't be this bleak
The fifth element future was pretty bleak was it not? Or am I not remembering the movie correctly? It seemed like a pretty authoritarian universe to me
You don't like automated traffic violation tickets? Or a corporate head that operates like a cartoon villain while the government acts like they can't do anything until the very end?
The Fifth Element depicted a straight up utopia where gift wrapped Milla Jovoviches fall from the sky. I do not need any more than that.
Hopefully we then still have the German laws against Scheinselbständigkeit (mock self employment). That's one of the reasons why Uber is just another taxi company here.
How exactly are they going to gigify fucking customer service?! Capitalism is out of ideas yall. All that "competition and innovation" has boiled away leaving only the scum.
The thing is, no rational person could have seen this coming. /s
Poob would like to hire back all it's human workers. Unfortunately, Poob fired them in the literal sense. Poob cannot employ ashes and rendered fat.
Yet.