New ask Hacker News story: Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI
10 by MountainMan1312 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
As my friend logged into work today, they were told to join a mandatory meeting, as was everyone on their team and everyone they had known at the company. It wasn't a meeting though, they were the only one in it. After being shown some stupid bullshit video about how Wayfair is "moving in a new direction" or whatever, they were locked out of their accounts almost without warning. Friends barely got a chance to say goodbye to each other. For the last few months, they've been training an absolutely useless AI to replace themselves. They made all the managers wait till later in the day to come into work so they could be fired separately. Of course, they kept the one manager who lives in a place with underpaid labor, where they are offshoring the work for managing this new AI to near-slaves. Of course they were told not to go posting about it on social media, and I couldn't find anything yet, so I took it upon myself. What a trash company that doesn't care about its people one bit.
10 by MountainMan1312 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
As my friend logged into work today, they were told to join a mandatory meeting, as was everyone on their team and everyone they had known at the company. It wasn't a meeting though, they were the only one in it. After being shown some stupid bullshit video about how Wayfair is "moving in a new direction" or whatever, they were locked out of their accounts almost without warning. Friends barely got a chance to say goodbye to each other. For the last few months, they've been training an absolutely useless AI to replace themselves. They made all the managers wait till later in the day to come into work so they could be fired separately. Of course, they kept the one manager who lives in a place with underpaid labor, where they are offshoring the work for managing this new AI to near-slaves. Of course they were told not to go posting about it on social media, and I couldn't find anything yet, so I took it upon myself. What a trash company that doesn't care about its people one bit.
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