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Fiverr announced significant employee reductions. The company is reducing its staff by 30 percent. Artificial intelligence is cited as the reason for these cuts. The layoffs specifically target tech employees. This news was posted on March 30, 2026.

https://fathomjournal.org/d03856ffsmm/9e1ead01-mN_W3NneMHg.html

Sounds familiar. “Everyone I talked to is consumed by AI—either how to use it, how to pretend to use it, how much they hate using it, how it’s going to eliminate their position or their company’s product,” he said. 

https://www.wsj.com/business/how-working-in-america-became-so-joyless-a1976fd2?st=gtZ34P&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Makes me wonder if we shouldn’t replace a lot of C-suite employees with AI.

This was in Fortune magazine.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/dells-cfo-is-using-ai-agents-to-run-his-finance-team-and-has-helped-the-ai-business-go-from-0-to-25-billion/

Love go we are adding ai then teaching ai so it could take out most of us out — compliance, processing, managers any mid level.

Managers stack rank their teams. There is obviously bias if you have a strong relationship with your direct or skip. But if you have not performed and can’t justify your salary, then you are likely gone. It’s not a charity, and they have to cut jobs somewhere to fund AI. Sales is still bloated at Oracle.

Speaking for sales, if you look at your team and you think there’s a chance you’re bottom 3, you’re likely gone. The March 31st layoffs are no joke. And co primes are in serious trouble.

Not trying to be cynical, just being honest. There are too many people who collect $150-200k year salaries and haven’t sold anything of significance or shown value, and a good relationship with your manager can only buy you so much time.

If folks think otherwise, please let me know. But we are about to see the most significant cuts in Oracle history.

We have co primes who are double paid on deals that they seldom have direct involvement with. Inside sales reps who push paper less effectively than AI could or field sellers. We are still bloated.

They will cut big time and the One Oracle and AI selling models will be figured out come June 1.

Are you guys allowed to use Cursor + latest LLM models to code?

Am I the only one whose productivity wend down due to AI? Checking and rechecking things is taking more time than doing something on my own. I'm just saying, this AI push might not have the results they're hoping for.

So many cuts in benefits, so much offshoring, so many layoffs as people are replaced by AI...and we all just keep accepting this as if it's normal. We're well trained, I guess. I just wonder if there's a point when all of us will realize we've had enough and just walk out.

https://qz.com/ai-layoffs-oracle-data-centers-costs

The new AI visit tool is effectively handling much of the DL's workload. As a result, we could expand the number of stores per district, and downsize the number of DLs in the FS by at least one or two per region. The payroll savings from this reduction could be reinvested into increasing hours in the FS, where actual customer-facing work occurs.

Need to some reach on mass scale various groups and educate them on how corporation is failing their mission, customer base, and employee wellbeing:

1) Medicare Membership — Educate on Failure to Pay Catastrophic Claims or Expensive RX
2) Employees — Layoffs on US Citizens and replacing by means of AI and Outsourcing and H1B Visas. Is it time for an Employee Union?
3) Shareholders — are executives being legal and honest and forthright in their dealings and state of the company? Is there any insider trading going on by executives? Are there stock buybacks to mislead shareholders as to the state of the company’s health?
4) Government Officials — Seeing as how Medicare is funded with tax payer dollars, reach out to Mayor, Governor, State and Federal Senators and House of Representatives.
5) Church Pastors and Church Membership — Educate them on how Humana is failing their flocks in time of need from a healthcare standpoint.
6) Local and National News Lead Reporters — as to delay and denying of claims, disgraceful large executive salaries, and major layoffs of good employees, including military veterans.
7) Better Business Bureau, AARP, etc.
8) Unions such as Teamsters — as to how start a union for nurses and other employees.
9) SEC — as to any known insider trading you may be aware of.
10) Lawyers — File lawsuits when Humana has legally wronged you by unlawful termination that you have documented.
11) ICE — report expired H1B Visas or those continuing to work well past the legal amount of time of six years in US.
12) Social Media — get the word out and shame Humana from a PR standpoint about unethical behavior of the company on twitter, facebook, reddit, facebook, tiktok, LinkedIn, etc.

https://youtube.com/shorts/umJyw6g9R1g?is=l2eEP_CMCFZvKHMI

Litigations will come for companies that adopt Ai aggressively.

Anyone following the scandal with the company called Delve? Apparently they were smart guys who used AI and India to provide compliance for companies. You’ll never guess but the Indians just made stuff up and issued fake SOC reports, allegedly. So smart that we are moving work to India.

Or when the next round will hit, or how many they think it makes sense to cut. Leadership overextended. AI is a black hole they all fell into, and now they're operating on pure sunk cost fallacy. They may end up shooting themselves in the leg to save the arm. Basically, anything can happen in the near future, and none of it will be good for us.

I hear AI is axing jobs. KC seems to think its a job eliminator to cut back on people. Rumor Ive heard our CHRO has in mind anyway. Whats the strategy. Productivity or cost savings?

my prediction and I am a 2nd year senior manager with iffy prediction track record.

five years from now, ACN is likely a smaller, leaner, more AI-centered firm with less revenue tied to labor-heavy delivery... more tied to high-end consulting, governance work, and complex project/enterprise orchestration... and still facing lower headcount leverage and margin pressure than in its pre-AI model.

I see Accenture at roughly 70% of current revenue (lets say in 5 years), with headcount down much more than revenue because AI compresses labor faster than it ki-ls total demand...

Now let's look Bear vs Bull cases, i am in the middle:

Bears: Think in terms of an impact across the board bears will say this:

• Mgmt Consulting - High Value Add (Research, planning, transformation - advanced thinking LLM models are really good at this - it'll slash demand by 50%)
• Vendor Selection (each advanced LLM model beats Gartner, things are analyzed and customized in less than 8 hours of work - u still need consulting, but you need 2 guys instead of 12)
• Design Systems Work (see above, the same applies)
• Dev (Agentic is going to cannibalize this up to 80%)
• Testing (Same as above, Agentic works - writes and executes scripts, u just need oversight and metrics, this will take a 70% haircut).
• Training and Change/Communication (Same as above)
• PMO (Still needed, probably 25% less or so)
• Management (Still needed, probably minimal impact)
• Overhead (Contracts, finance, HR, Still needed but will get streamlined extra 20% over time).

Bulls will counter with this, and the Wall Street seems to be more on the Bears side at least for now:

• Mgmt Consulting - High Vlue Add (AI strategy, operating model, transformation - LLMs generate options, but exec alignment grows - demand shifts up the stack)
• Vendor Selection (LLMs speed anlysis, but audit and risk increase - still need validation and accountability, fewer analysts more senior roles)
• Design Systems Work (AI builds components, but enterprise standardization at scale grows - governance and consistency expand)
• Dev (Agentic boosts output, but backlog expands - fewer devs per project, more projects overall)
• Testing (Agentic automates scripts, but continuous validation and monitoring grow - shift to quality engineering)
• Training and Change/Communication (More tools, faster change - structured adoption and change mgmt expand)
• PMO (Faster delivery, more coordination across AI, data, business - leaner but more critical)
• Mgmt (Fewer layers, higher span of control - more intense decision making)
• Overhead (More AI licensing, compliance, governance - leaner ops, higher complex.)

Welcome to the new normal! We are all being put out to pasture due to AI.

BLONO State Farmers there are lots of food-banks and other resources available. Best be prepared as many of you have been living check to check.
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Dan’s story time is great for the stock price. I can’t wait to tell us more about AI and the future. Hopefully he gives out lolly pops.

To get an idea for how far behind Intel is in AI, they still employ hundreds of secretaries. These are status symbols. They are so old fashioned on the inside. The leaders don't know how to schedule Outlook or create ai agent.

Widespread layoffs are happening due to poor financial performance, weak leadership, and an overhyped push toward AI from the CTO.

Do you feel embarrassed talking to tech friends from other companies when the topic of AI comes up? They’ve been telling me for TWO YEARS that I would get to use AI. So far zilch, nothing, just stories from the home page by people I don’t know with Indian accents. Apparently only foreigners are worth investing in a subscription to ChatGPT. Engagement — ZERO

Until this layoff situation is clearer, I'm doing nothing.

That's AI productivity for you

We should use AI to design our shoes, it has to be better than what’s come out recently. Tech will sell them for yah, if you make something worth selling!

https://www.wsj.com/video/ibms-ai-strategy-tripling-entry-level-hires-to-drive-expansion/A21BEBCA-9DE3-4E2E-B32B-F7D9B66249B8

By: WSJ Leadership Institute
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While many companies use artificial intelligence to cut costs, Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer, argues that deploying AI-augmented junior talent to reach new clients is the real key to corporate growth. Photo: WSJ Leadership Institute

Many HR functions could be handled far more efficiently by AI. Tasks like managing job offers, coordinating interviews, handling relocations, and processing employee concerns need accuracy and consistency, and AI is way better at that than traditional systems. less delays, less errors.

So this was just a “let’s sell you on AI” meeting?
This spin is infuriating. Don’t pi-s on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
AI already took jobs. Just because they were taken first doesn’t mean AI didn’t replace them. In a way I guess it’s true because those who are still employed just have the additional burden of trying to get the job done - until AI can learn. But leadership will keep repeating that it’s not taking jobs. Maybe if we keep hearing it we will believe it?
And are we really bragging that 3 employees were “repurposed” so people start feeling safe?
Just stop. It’s insulting.

Here’s what you can start doing:
Be honest about what the vision is for this company and who has a true future with Canon. Give people the resources to develop marketable skills and move on if your long term plan does not include them. People have families to raise.

This is pretty crazy:

https://time.com/article/2026/03/11/anthropic-claude-disruptive-company-pentagon/

I'm sure there's a large amount of effort that goes into validation, but yikes. Meanwhile, AI from MS lags pretty far behind, so WF people are safe for a bit. Has anyone seen any actual AI agent automation being experimented with in any meaningful way at this point? If so, tell us what it's doing!

Here is the rundown:

Moving to a 'open contribution' model. Near 100% adoption of AI across the company.
Moving to an 'AI first' mindset. Ty Thorsen (SVP) announcing new 'AI transformation' team to force the use of AI across the board for all engineers.

Still have no growth strategy, just directions and empty promises, AI is taking over increasing burnout, you know what that means...

Moving fast fast fast and faster, more speed more acceleration more efficiency, aiming higher doing better bigger goals yap yap yap typical corporate jargin bla bla bla be excited about company growth (dont ask for more pay)

Karlheinz wurm could not pronounce 'cost', kept saying 'co-k'

Overwhelming negative feedback in the Q&A about RTO.
The anonymous questions are funnily brutal, the top voted one:
"As an office-first organization, shouldn’t all the leaders on this call be present at their main collaboration sites?"

Ty Thorson (SVP) """"answers"""" RTO concerns:
'While individuals might be more productive at home, teams are more productive working together in person" holy cope

"we are not the only ones doing this..." slap to the face

"Were leading this with a carrot, not with a stick. We are hoping the people will appreciate coming into the office for their team" trying to blame YOU for their bad decisions

Then they start blatently deleting all of the tough-to-answer RTO questions. Absolutely comical as more and more people ask "Why are you deleting RTO questions". So much for being a transparent company.

The rest of the questions are sidestepped and doesnt really answer anything, typical corporate vetted PR talk around the use of AI and how its going to change the world.
Constantly reciting the absolutes, like "all", "most of", "best", "must", "fully", "completely" etc.

People are asking some really brutal questions now, example:
"Someone deleted the question??? Please have all leaders show who is currently in the office if we are to believe you are leading by example"

They keep deleting questions rapid-fire.
Atmosphere gets tense.
No actual questions answered.

"I see concerns about topics like RTO, please message xyz if you feel this way"

"Will we compensate people for gas and time lost coming into the office? Thats not part of Cisco's policy its your responsability to take care of that" lol thanks lets create a problem and expect you to pay for it

The questions in Slido get REALLY heated now, moderation is working overtime deleting messages. More and more questions on compensation not increasing with inflation.

Out of all the leadership speakers, only 4 were in the office.
Everyone couldnt even come into the office to give a talk about returning to the office.
Great lead by example.

The rest of the meeting was a big nothingburger.

It cannot be any clearer how dogshit current leadership is.
If you havent quiet quit by now, this is your signal.

Did you use AI today? Did you automate your job so we can fire you?

IBM announced thousands of job cuts in late 2025. The company reduced its global workforce by about two percent. Despite these reductions, IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026. New roles will focus on customer engagement and AI management. IBM's total workforce stood at 286,800 employees as of December 31, 2025.

Armonk, New York

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/ibm-employees

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/ibm-employees

Key Points
IBM employs hundreds of thousands of workers as of December 31, 2025.
The company operates in more than 170 countries and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.
IBM is cutting jobs while increasing entry-level hiring, especially in cloud and AI fields.

Looks like the US is heading into a collapse over the next decade with the relentless jobs being lost due to H1B visas Ofdshoeing and AI.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we see over 50% of white collar jobs completely gone over the next 5 years.

This is a real SHTF scenario and most people still have their heads up their as--s when it comes to this

Hearing confirmed from senior leadership that layoffs will be impacting the Database org over the coming weeks, ~2,900 roles in total.
It looks like this will roll out in phases, starting with US and then extending to EMEA.
From what's being speculated, areas most impacted include redundant roles (code fixing and ai replaceable tasks), parts of platform, as well as functions tied to performance and time-based metrics.

I see a lot of worry about ai here.

ai actually can do all things promised.

Verizon doesn't have the infrastructure, management, talent to do any of it.

Most of the requests are rejected because they are rule based problems not ai problems.

There's a fundamental lack of knowledge of what ai even is at Verizon. Whatever knowledge that exists at Verizon is at the highschool level and limited to basic prompting.

Let that sink in. The top leadership at Verizon has a grade school equivalent level with ai.

I've let my feelings known many times so I hope i get riffed because I am not learning anything here.

Tldr; anybody at vz saying anything about ai has no business doing so.

Rant over

The current AI push from senior management and the directors will bring this company to its knees. These people are too old and out of touch to understand what this technology actually is. It can be utilized in productive ways by individuals that have experience using LLMS and have a solid grasp of what LLMS are and what they are not. You cannot vibe code our systems. You need to hire and train journeymen so when the seasoned experts retire you have competent people to take the reigns that actually comprehend what they're looking at. Script-kiddies used to be a bad thing, now we're building on the backs of something much worse. For any manager reading this, when has copilot ever told you an idea you have is bad? Or even offered a different suggestion? It hasn't, because these models are trained to retain users. And the best way it does that is through sycophantic praise. I thought we had intelligent people at least making decisions for us. After seeing that AI ignite training I now understand that we are in for a very tumultuous time ahead. For any coder on here, keep learning and cutting your teeth on the stack. You will be needed once our leaders destroy this company. And for the process and maintenance techs, don't let them make you feel inferior or easily replaceable. These systems are powerful but we need the creativity and problem solving of you to make this company succeed. My heart weeps for any young person getting into what used to be a very presitigious career path. Please do better for the sake of the families that GF keeps fed.

Just look at Amazon. Their engineers are losing it because AI code is wrecking systems.

I know Jeff was swinging the axe yesterday and some poor 400 souls got hit sadly. The real question on my mind is did he completely obliterate the Data&AI group or are they still around. I know a director was let go in January/February. I'm just curious if he managed to plug the Data&AI money hole for good...

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