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A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
(www.businessinsider.com)
Time to slack off and deliver the minimum possible then
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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That's exactly what people should be doing anytime their company boasts about record profits/revenue yet halts pay raises or even has it lower than the rate of inflation.
In my old job I just allocated a percent of my day towards job applications until I finally got out. Morons thought I wouldn't be upset with a 15% pay cut over 3 years of working my ass off.
“It’s a question of motivation. If I bust my ass and Initec ships a few more units I don’t see another dime. So where’s the motivation?”
It’s insane that companies haven’t gotten this hint in the 27 years since Office Space was released.
Not wanting to starve is also a great motivator. Now that you're struggling either way the motivation goes away.
“But that makes people work just hard enough that they don’t get fired”
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Quiet quit, show up a bit late, stretch your breaks by a few minutes, leave early, steal stuff, don't do anything that doesn't directly contribute to your job, volunteer for nothing, refuse to tithe to whatever their stupid charity is, max out every benefit, max out any family leave, file official complaints to HR, break stuff, don't refill anything, do no maintenance on anything, umionize, etc.
Be a paid employee, don't be a good employee. Act your wage.
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The CIA published a guide back in the 40s about how to disrupt fascist companies. It's worth a google.
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... while actively looking for a new job
Also waste the ai tokens so they dont justify it to fire staff
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To date, I have not heard a single CEO talk about where the money will come from if no one is employed.
How can consumers consume if they don't have any money?
that's for someone else to worry about.
Seriously if you talk to these people they live their lives financial quarter by quarter. there's no plan for 2+ years down the line, they can't think that far ahead. They're all like this. It's all about the now. make money now, release a product now, no future, no updates, now now now. This is why LLM's appeal so much to them, it can provide that "now" that they crave.
When there's a 20 million dollar golden parachute when fail why would you care about the next quarter...
Exactly! In 2008 there was guys just blindly driving off the cliff huffing pure copium and greed.
Because these drug and AI addled idiots refuse to or can't think more than a quarter ahead at a time. As there are no consequences for the executive caste, why should they?
That's what the rich dickhead bunkers in remote locations are for, my friend.
Apparently long as bots are buying from them they care. The goal is keep the stock in green Apparently they don't need consumers for that.
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May as well asked who the slave owners sold to since so many in the South were enslaved.
The answer is the same. They sell to each other. We don’t get a cut. They dream of the day they actually get to have slaves again. Most of them don’t see us as people; they see us as things that siphon off money that needs to be in their pockets. Money we don’t deserve because we’re not rich.
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Saved you a click
Teradata, a global cloud software company, told its 5,100 employees in January not to expect an annual salary raise this year as it reallocate the budget toward AI investments, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider and not previously reported.
How much of a raise will the CEO get?
CEO later added: the exec team is still getting a raise though.
This is how they get voluntary terminations that don't require severance.
Great way to have half your staff quiet quit, and probably make at least a couple mad enough to really fuck some shit up.
Stupid tech bros think they are entitled to hard work and loyalty, they arent, it must be earned.
Employees quitting is the goal. If they get them to quit they don't have to pay unemployment.
Quiet quitting is when you lazy it up until they fire you.
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Better to start wasting the AI tokens and burn their AI budget with nothing to show for it.
"Here's a list of 4000 cities. can you generate the order in which to visit them. Assume trasportation by car and find the exact cheapest order."
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its also called constructive dismissal.
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The company I work for did this last year.
Unfortunately the tech industry can get away with this shit because the job market is a fucking nightmare and tech bros all think they're too smart/skilled to need a union (neither of which is true).
just quit on mass and save yourselves the time, it'll likely collapse the company as an added bonus
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Sweet. Time to stop giving a shit about work, and just shit at work. (Prepositions are amazing!)
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Teradata's focus for 2026 is to "win in the market with AI," CEO Steve McMillan said in the memo
Oh boy... he is just chugging the AI kool-aid.
Well yeah, doing actual research or understanding a topic would cut into his golf time
That kind of crap is one reason I became a contractor ages ago and didn't look back.
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a sign that a massive layoff is coming is: not having enough foronuses/raises, or if the ceo funds themselves with the cuts.
At least the AI will be able to feed its wife and family.
"AI" -> "CEO's bonus", when we put it through the translator.
How this doesn't result in a class action lawsuit is beyond me.
Spineless cowards contributing to the death of the U.S. .
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it must be entirely coincidental that employee performance dropped by 10% across the board
United we stand, divided we fall. Gotta fight these pricks united.
This CEO prolly thinks he's generous cos he ain't firing them (yet) lol. So the peasant employees should be grateful for having still a job in the first place lol
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None of you are getting bonuses this year because we're heavily investing into replacing all of you
#2020s_suck
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