So it finally happened: My job is now mandating generative ai use.

[ii_infinitum@mastodon.social]

So it finally happened: My job is now mandating generative ai use. They can’t define what that means, but they’ll be damned if they aren’t going to punish us anyway.

Anyone out there looking for a telecom/network engineer? Remote preferred, but happy to go hybrid in Detroit area for the right place. Largely Cisco background for R&S or Voice, but a quick learner on others. FW and wireless experience with several vendors as well as Cisco.

Edit to clarify: not fired yet.

#FediHire #fedijobs

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@ii_infinitum sorry

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@ii_infinitum If it helps, I can set up a "genAI" company, send you a constant stream of plausible sounding bullshyt, a huge invoice to sign off on once a month, then we split the money? Basically the standard model, just faintly more ethical?

[ii_infinitum@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Thanks. I’m one of the lucky ones to be left after years of layoffs, but I think they care more about ideological alignment than work, so I’m sure my time is coming. I’d like to back to a university, but they’re not having a great time now either.

[ii_infinitum@mastodon.social]

@_thegeoff if I got to pick the tool we’d be in! I think the ethics cancel each other out anyway.

[cmconseils@mastodon.social]

@ii_infinitum I know the feeling

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@ii_infinitum Oh, yeah, that pesky "randomly generated data should not guide legally obligated responsibilities" clause. My bad.

[richardisaguyyyy@ursal.zone]

@cmconseils @ii_infinitum It is one thing trying to push to get a new technology at the workplace; It is another to have people punished for not following a well defined company policy.

But now, doing both at the same time... That's the kind of thing they teach you NOT to do in admin school

[pinkforest@hachyderm.io]

@ii_infinitum I used to be in that industry (worked with all of the big vendors and a lot of the carriers) and let's just say the time is out of SS7, PSTN, VoIP, X.25. They have mostly outsourced all of that to where ever they get the cheapest people - AI is just an excuse to fire everyone expensive. I would pivot to re-learn everything - that is what I did after spending too long time there in between.