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How to talk fuck ai at work?
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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As someone who was recently fired for, among other things, being a stick in the mud about AI, I have some thoughts.
Try not to take work too seriously.
I drew a picture of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force saying, "It don't matter. None of this matters." and put that by my monitor in my office. Whenever I started to feel activated about some bullshit, I just glanced over at Carl. It calmed me down to be reminded that my real job is to simply not lose the job.
It's a very bad time to be unemployed and anti-AI right now. Just tread lightly, ride out the storm, and let the inevitable reckoning eventually come to pass.
This is the answer tbh. I work for a paycheck. I'll do what I'm hired to do, and when I log off for the day, I don't even think about it. It's frankly just not worth making a fuss over something the company is all-in on if doing so would risk one's livelihood.
My company's going into this direction too. When I was asked if I've tried an internal AI tool (which I hadn't used and never plan to) I just said "when I tried it, i found it makes too many errors and it's more time-consuming to fix its mistakes so I don't use it". Without a union it's just not worth risking job security to go off any more than that about how much the tech absolutely fucking sucks.