With everything happening in today's climate around AI, and the talk about putting in safeguards to protect human jobs, what can we do to stop the progression of BB and his goons trying to push more automation and AI capabilities on us, while pushing us out of a job? Legally, is there anything we can do to protect our jobs? There is a huge project GBS is pioneering globally to enhance AI abilities, and is very worrisome as they continuously request more information on our roles and responsibilities. This is happening in every country, and whilst some are complying with their every task no questions asked, I am very resistant to hand everything over because I know inevitably, I will be replaced by AI.
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A paycheck in exchange for task(s) That’s your right.
@15k you sound like you don’t have a life. How pathetic. Go outside and touch some grass or do you enjoy kissing 3M a-s 24/7?
Realistically, no. Now could you please just get back to work? Or do you need to continue crying?
@b7 India is slteady too expensive, it will be Manila Philippines a 24/7 low cost work force 1st Stop CIR/CSR
The Board must be the most vile humans alive to allow what is happening to this formerly great company to continue happening.
People have been believing that we're in the "last days" for centuries now. It's the last days for 3M but not the world. People should be looking for new jobs if not able to retire.
We workers have no rights, but we can certainly qu!et qu!t.
@bs the next hot spots to send work once India is too expensive will be Afghanistan or Iraq. Businesses will chase the cheapest labor no matter where it is. I personally can’t wait until we hear sure the complaining and crying from India that the work that was outsourced to them finally gets outsourced to someone even cheaper. Perhaps evil of me but karma is a b1tch they say.
@b7 do not utilize Navigator to enhance 3M AI capabilities. Instead utilize other non3M tools if you need to use AI.
@ch EEOC has a file created and counting. Every 3M’er placed on a rediculous PiP, than provided a severance is being documented. Make your complaint known and do not hesitate to file for unemployment insurance.
Whatever you are doing, can AI do it ?
I can count fingers, LLM (because there is no such thing as AI yet) still struggles with it.
Ask yourself a simple yet serious question , and keep asking yourself every year as AI gets more and more capable.
Whatever you are doing, can AI do it ? If so your job will be gone, it is just a matter of time.
3M is an old school company and is almost always behind the curve while implementing digital capabilities and hence things will be implemented a bit slowly, but it will happen.
You dont have any rights, especially if you work in IT.
It’ll be just a matter of time and India wages and costs will catch up with the others. What then? Look on Mars?
I would personally worry less about AI and more about your job going to a low cost country. I'm not talking Poland or China, the salaries are too high there. As all roads lead to Rome all Roles lead to India. Learn how to use AI and it might buy you some time, but if you work for a large US company you can bet your job eventually gets relocated.
The best way to come out of it on top, or at least alive and semi-well, is to structure your life and lifestyle to be as independent of this cr@p as possible. There's no avoiding AI to a large extent, but the aim to avoid it as much as possible makes the most humane sense.
Look for work that isn't geared around it. Delve into your genuine interests and talents, and see if you can carve out your own streams of income which aren't so reliant on corporations or institutions.
Consider becoming self-employed. You don't have to go it alone, you can group up with other like-minded individuals who share your same or similar sentiments about where all of this is going. Or get a "regular" part time job, and use the rest of the working hours in your day to devote to self-employment, so your basic bills are covered while you work on independent streams of income.
Stay healthy, try to avoid the "healthcare" system, because they are using it to harm more than help people. Avoid "immunizations" and tracking devices (Fitbit, Apple watch, Oura ring, etc.) Eat good whole foods that you cook/prepare at home. Filter your drinking water. Do some home gardening, even if it's in pots on a patio or balcony. Limit your consumption of media, especially social media. Read books. Learn new practical skills re: homesteading, mechanical maintenance, cooking, repairing, any type of creating. Listen to upbeat or calming music made by humans, not AI. Fill your mind and soul with positivity...be in nature as much as possible.
Read the bible, and become friends with Jesus.
Yes, this has gone out of favor recently, but that's a symptom of what's wrong with the world, not what's right with it. Bring your soul to connect with God, and learn about how the times we're in now may be considered by some to be "the last days", but in reality, that just brings us all closer to God, and for when it all goes down/implodes, WE will be the victorious ones, because we believe in Him, know Him, and He knows us personally.
Keep the faith.
Stay focused.
Put one foot in front of the other.
Don't give up, and don't give in.
Keep/cultivate your sense of humor!
Stay strong.
Thinking about it, BB is doing what the board hired him to do- keep stock price high, combine businesses, harvest where you can and shrink the company. We are hired by earlier bosses and now neither can he give us direction ( as the board gave him) or are we allowed to independently do something. We are here as floating mass which will be discarded soon
Nothing can be done. Try to build a solid contingency plan.