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2026-05-30 Economy

Yet another ultra-rich tech CEO lays off a huge chunk of its staff by email and blames AI

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-30 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1853 views ] Top

1 Billionaire's 6am email that wiped out 10,000 jobs as AI layoffs spiral

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-29 16:19|| 2026-05-29 16:19|| Front Page Top

2 Freeing the Indian drudges from their MS Developer certs. Hooyah!

Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-29 16:22|| 2026-05-29 16:22|| Front Page Top

3 Nothing will ever replace a good team.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-05-30 03:37|| 2026-05-30 03:37|| Front Page Top

4 OK, so how long before we see a Federal AI / Worker Impact Tax?

Where the population gets a monthly credit to their account to buy goods that AI / Robots and etc.. produce. Because if they FIRE all the humans, then who will have any $$$$ to purchase the items and services that AI & Robots produce?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-05-30 05:40|| 2026-05-30 05:40|| Front Page Top

5 The Dems used to say, "Learn to code" and see what happened?

Posted by Bobby 2026-05-30 08:04|| 2026-05-30 08:04|| Front Page Top

6 They could be cleaning out DEI and HR departments with little or no impact on business. In this case the NYT can report 'women hurt hardest'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-05-30 09:47|| 2026-05-30 09:47|| Front Page Top

7 P2K, had the same thought. The reports never say from which departments. eg Twitter/X

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-05-30 10:12|| 2026-05-30 10:12|| Front Page Top

8 Which companies have you worked for, and saw people that you couldn't understand what it was they did?

Posted by ed in texas 2026-05-30 10:39|| 2026-05-30 10:39|| Front Page Top

9 Now it is a little clearer why certain cities had mandatory minimum wage increases that appeared ridiculous. I’ll wager there was a this is what’s coming meeting with a solution along the lines of 3-5 low wage for everyone 1 tech worker will replace the loss of the higher wage earner or something along those lines. Throw in a little UBI and g2g

Posted by Jefe101 2026-05-30 12:24|| 2026-05-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

10 aka... we hired too many DEI slups during the pandemic and AI gives us a good excuse to fire those worthless fucks.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-05-30 14:27|| 2026-05-30 14:27|| Front Page Top

11 Which companies have you worked for, and saw people that you couldn't understand what it was they did?

All of them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-05-30 16:16|| 2026-05-30 16:16|| Front Page Top

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