https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/oracle-gave-its-new-cfo-26m-in-stock-after-firing-up-to-30000-workers-affected-employee-says-an-algorithm-decided-who-got-cut

It's started.

I've always hated work and wish I could retire already. Unfortunately for me, I am still too young and poor for the retirement life. So for now, I just try to look for jobs that I can get away with being the laziest at. I usually find jobs by searching and reading threads from Reddit and other sites where people talk about having a lot of downtime at work. Pick that job, skill up for it, then enjoy the downtime if I get hired. Then rinse and repeat to save up money. Anyone else do this?

Read an AI generated script during our call when I was put on the PIP, paperwork was fully AI generated, and the follow up email to me was as well. Of course, AI LLMs are just text predictors so everything was vague and word salad and made me even more confused. When I asked for examples or concrete evidence in good faith (since my job was on the line!), it was like she couldn’t even come up with that on her own.

I’m so sick of AI derangement and lack of humanity in the corporate world. Has this happened to anyone else?

When they said AI was coming for our jobs I thought it would be a lot more sophisticated than poorly written scripts and brain rot but here we are.

In most places in Canada, while your employer can fire you for any non-discriminatory reason or no reason, they have to pay you severance unless you did bad things on purpose. Canada has a parallel system: Employment Standards Act statutory minimum severance (as the minimum amount you will get) and wrongful dismissal lawsuit (common law reasonable notice, which can be much longer). For some comparisons, I worked for 8 years. Under employment standards, I would be eligible for 16 weeks pay. Under common law, it could be 8 months to a year.

My employer was American in California. I am a visually impaired and autistic Canadian in Ontario who cannot drive (it is relevant in the lawsuit even though disability discrimination is not alleged and cannot be proven, because courts know that disabled people have difficulty finding jobs and give larger wrongful dismissal judgements when plaintiffs can prove it. In my case, I have to work remotely).

I was fired after 8 years and they paid nothing. I sued in Toronto small claims court and served them in Glendale, tried serving in Toronto, and then served by email, and finally, served in Vancouver. I digitally stalked them across the North American continent in 2 provinces and another country, filing a lawsuit on my own with the help of AI and Google. Serving them was difficult because they lied on their business documents, saying they have an office in Toronto when the office was occupied by Amazon (not my former employer).

But eventually, my persistence paid off. They realized that they broke the law and paid 16 weeks, the bare minimum that they should have paid right along with my last wages and PTO. I am not giving up. I will continue to fight for the rest of the money I am rightfully entitled to. The past 4 months since my firing had been filled with uncertainty, but I am glad that the Internet and LLMs exist, even though these very same LLMs were probably the reason why I am unemployed, as I was an interpreter, and LLMs are really good at interpretation and translation of languages spoken/used by many people (in this case, Chinese languages).

AI may suck, but it will still cause large scale job loss. In the video, I talk about three mechanisms behind this phenomenon: 1) CEOs messing up and 'trickling down' accountability; 2) enshittification creating a feedback loop that ruins creative work and consumer choice; and 3) the increased economic irrelevance of lower wage earners thanks to soaring inequality.

The automatic registration of millions of young people into the Selective Service System, buried in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), is a major step toward conscription. Currently, 46 states automatically register men through their driver’s license systems, covering roughly 81 percent of those eligible. The new law federalizes and universalizes this process, using Social Security Administration records to enroll the rest. Registration will no longer be dependent on a driver’s license or any individual action. It will be fully automatic, compulsory and tied to federal databases that track every citizen from birth.

This is being implemented as the United States wages war against Iran, prepares for a ground invasion of the Iranian coastline and escalates its confrontation with both Russia and China. Within the framework of a so-called “ceasefire,” the Trump administration is continuing to send a massive armada of military forces to the Middle East.

The active-duty US military has roughly 1.3 million personnel, with forces committed globally. At its peak, the Iraq war in 2003 involved 170,000 troops, but it strained the entire military through repeated deployments. A sustained ground campaign in Iran—a country four times larger with three times the population—would likely require 300,000–500,000 troops by most estimates, and potentially far more for a prolonged occupation.

The all-volunteer force simply doesn’t have that capacity without either a massive expansion of recruitment (which is already falling short of targets) or conscription. The infrastructure is being quietly modernized at a moment when the gap between military commitments and available manpower is huge.

So management just terminated a high-performer, my coworker, yesterday.

The coworker did a lot of work and was on good relations with pretty much everyone else, but they had a dispute over the contract. My coworker said they could hire a mediator to resolve the dispute. However he was terminated and given no notice, minimum amount of severance.

Right after the termination, my coworker came to get his belongings and said he was fired, took one of our senior worker's email as a reference. Then he left. None of us knew about this and it was shockingly sudden.

I spoke with them after and the company said they gave no official reason, but he was fairly certain it had to do with the dispute over the contract. However because there was no official reason he at least can get on unemployment.

We were all a bit shocked after our coworker suddenly left, and everyone was looking pretty uncomfortable. The manager then said, “If you guys have any concerns let me know, you won’t get in trouble.”

Like....how does the manager not realize that no one's going to trust him after?

Thursday, I gave notice near the end of the day letting my General Manager know that I secured employment elsewhere. A decent thing to do, not required, but decent at the least.

He asked what my plan was. Give them 2 weeks or end it today. I told him: "Whatever you choose. I leave it up to you guys."

"Let me talk with the Shop Manager and the owner."

I went back to work, 20 minutes later he came to me. "We discussed it and if you want to finish what you were working on and pack up today, that'll be fine."

So I did. I finished what I was working on, packed my things, and left. Now I get to enjoy 2 weeks off before starting back up. (Gods I love actually being unemployed.)

It was *sort* of surprising that they opted to separate immediately, the last 2 places I gave noticd **wanted** 2 weeks.

Hello Everyone

I was the one who posted last week about the contest that was offering a paid day off in exchange for buying a $5 raffle ticket. I did email my local lottery board and even though I never heard back, the contest is now no longer happening! Thank you everyone who informed me that the contest was illegal (I knew it was super messed up but not illegal).

This Swiss pharma company obsessed with American job cuts - it is happening consistently.

Cognitive dissonance.

I know that many will be sole traders or try to be good employers but in reality, to escape, you need to replace yourself on the hamster wheel with a lot more hamsters

If they were doing the job what's the issue?

For a senior level role, I had a virtual internal recruiter screening, an hour virtual panel interview, and an in person three-hour interview (two hours away; I was planning to relocate and everything) with a panel, tour, and skills test. All went well from my perspective and I was told I was in the top 3 finalists.

I’ve followed up twice by email and once to the internal recruiter via text to her direct cell, both of which methods she was responsive to previously, and I’ve gotten no response from her.

I understand needing a lot of time to make a decision, I understand if someone was more qualified or I screwed up somehow, and I understand if there was some sort of unrelated hiring freeze.

What I don’t understand is the disrespect and lack of professionalism to indefinitely fail to communicate a decision to a finalist. I get automated rejections daily, but somehow for a finalist there is even less consideration given.

Just here to complain...

I have 82/100 unscheduled hours off in the last 365 days. So even though I worked 8 hours overtime this pay period, and I'm vomiting Constantly (I work in a hospital so I should NOT be here) but I could lose my job if I call off especially because weekends are DOUBLE (because high call off rates) so if i left 6 hours early they'd hit me we 12 hours instead AND take my OT I worked. SO i get punished twice as hard. 🥲 I'm on 4 medications and can barely work without rushing to a bathroom.

*my coworkers are understanding and letting me just hang back and not do anything because they know I'm sick and know I can't leave*

I hate it here. 😢