#ai

Kel B just sent out a message saying that we will achieve client success by using AI. People are getting fired left and right, morale is terrible, FT call center is getting closed and all they can say is AI. This is beyond stupid. She schedules her meetings almost every month and it's all about AI, that's the best you can do??

They're just slowly getting rid of everyone, first by offshoring and then with AI. They don't seem to realize that ki-ling jobs also degrades or ki-ls your products. But hey, no job is safe anymore anyway, I guess, so it is what it is.

A standardized platform across CSG first will help work out the bugs in Maverick. This will pave the way for the training of the AI replacement for financial and Logistics teams, and to some respects Support.
Any bugs will be at first blamed on the users so management will spend a month threatening those is sees as saboteurs. ISG will be next to see if it scales up to the needs of those products.
A year or so of training will give the AI enough info to become full-fledged replacement. I will be leaving the day my bonus hits my account. I have a new job lined up starting April 6.

This was online this morning. It says layoffs to continue through March.

T-Mobile is undergoing significant layoffs across multiple departments, with recent cuts confirmed as of January 2026. Employees in sales, business units, call centers, and engineering have been affected, particularly supervisory staff—reports indicate 75% of supervisory roles are being eliminated. The Dedicated Experts team experienced a wave of layoffs from Monday to Friday, with leadership and hourly employees impacted.

These changes are part of a broader digital transformation strategy driven by new CEO Srini Gopalan. T-Mobile is aggressively pushing its T-Life app, which now has over 90 million downloads, and integrating AI-powered customer service via a partnership with OpenAI. As a result, roles tied to in-person or phone-based support are being reduced.

T-Mobile has not disclosed the exact number of layoffs but confirmed "some changes" while continuing to hire. The company is also restructuring retail operations, with rumors of new "Consumer Account Executives" in stores for small businesses and increased pressure on staff to use T-Life for upgrades and sales.

Layoffs are expected to continue through the end of Q1 2026, with no official hiring freeze confirmed despite earlier rumors. Employees in Washington state, including Bellevue, Bothell, and Snoqualmie, were impacted in a prior round affecting 121 workers starting October 2025.

For real-time updates, employees and the public are monitoring Reddit (r/tmobile) and TheLayoff.com

Elon Musk reveals roadmap with nine-month cadence for new AI processor releases, beating Nvidia and AMD's yearly cadence — Musk plans to have the highest-volume chips in the world

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-reveals-roadmap-with-nine-month-cadence-for-new-ai-processor-releases-beating-nvidia-and-amds-yearly-cadence-musk-plans-to-have-the-highest-volume-chips-in-the-world

Saw it on the news today

https://opentools.ai/news/oracles-bay-area-shake-up-layoffs-hit-oci-and-aiml-teams

Next 75 figured it that it would look amazing, to use AI software for QA for customer service, cutting out accenture and in house employees..

Funny part is they have no idea, that AI software sold to them, is in the early adoption phase.. AI software makers are making big corporations adopt, once they are absolutely dependent on them, the licensing costs will be through the roof with contracts requiring money to get out, whereas people are easy to fire and hire. People wage growth is a laughable to BIG AI hiking up licensing cost 2 X - 3 x every 5 years

You just played yourself, all your data and operational capability belongs to us. Best part the VP and Director who signed off on this wont be even be there, next time licensing price is hiked

Fresh off a favorable decision in its $2 billion legal dispute with a competitor, Pegasystems Inc. is cutting jobs.

The Waltham-based software company eliminated "less than 100 global positions" in its consulting organization last week as clients adopt Pega's new AI products, according to an email from a Pegasystems spokesperson on Monday.'

https://www.nbcboston.com/boston-business-journal/massachusetts-based-software-company-cuts-dozens-of-jobs-in-ai-push/3876352/

https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2026/01/16/bank-america-wells-fargo-ai-job-cuts

What’s the reward to finish work? More work! I am exhausted with or without AI

AI a solution in desperate search of a problem.
Our customers have treated it as a toy, but won't pay additionally for it.
SAP's AI-focused plan is ignoring the demands of core SAP customers and they will move to start-ups or better solutions offered by competitors.
SAP's executive board and HR only want AI because it helps lay off SAP employees and reduce wages where possible.
We need a two-pronged approach, aimed at growing AI relevancy but also growing the core business and delivering the product features our customers are asking for.
This means we need all hands on deck and more employees not layoffs.

Can anyone here help me understand why this isn't SAP's current plan?

If AI and automation can’t handle the HR load that Citi has, then forget about it being able to handle things of more complexity. Seriously, the HR paper shuffle is about as low hanging fruit as you can get when it comes to a comparison of job complexity. If you want a true low hanging fruit test bed as to the accuracy and integrity of your AI platform, make HR your first target. If AI can’t handle that with sustained measurable success, then it certainly can’t handle complex number crunching, transactions and\or tech.

It's going to be a bloodbath.

Exactly one year to the day that I was laid off, many more followed in the Pest and BI/AI/Analytics teams this same day.

Citi should be the last company to discuss or bring awareness to mental illness. For the past 3 years employees have been on the edge seeing fellow coworkers especially within the United States get impacted and their jobs being outsourced overseas. It is a never ending cycle that this company is causing. When will the “restructuring “ end? They are blaming Ai which might be a small percentage but the jobs are being shipped to other countries. Look at their career page. They don’t know what they are doing and that’s why there is no stability. As a matter fact Jane will never be Jamie Dimon if that’s what she is trying to pull.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/boston-dynamicss-next-gen-humanoid-robot-will-have-google-deepmind-dna/

Everyone get ready for the real great replacement. Humanoid robots with AI learning are being taught how to do part deliveries and other logistical tasks. Gulfstream will do anything to improve their profit margins, so you better believe that they will find a way to replace every human worker at gulfstream with a robot that doesn't require bathroom breaks, food, vacations, health insurance or anything else that could possibly slow production down. They will be able to work 24/7/365, will be able to perform all the tasks we can without causing any DRDIs. It's not about if it happens, it's about when.

Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated AI’s capabilities. They have found that AI simply can’t cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints.

But the problems go far deeper than that.

Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass AI layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong AI-generated responses that AI is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this AI reduces productivity, not increases it.

But there is also a huge problem here with expertise and skill debt. On top of the firefighting to correct the AI, executives have also highlighted how they are also having to firefight to stabilise their systems from problems that were previously easily solved by staff who had the required experience and skill. However, these staff were fired in the AI layoffs.

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is-breaking-the-ai-revolution

Citigroup announced over one thousand job cuts. Meta also cut 1,500 jobs in its virtual reality division. However, little evidence suggests AI is displacing workers en masse. A recent analysis found the proportion of AI-disruptible jobs remained steady. Macroeconomic uncertainty and immigration policy changes also influence the labor market.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91474511/ai-related-layoffs-keep-coming-but-theres-more-to-the-story

I learned from a recruiter yesterday that when you submit an application to a job board etc., do not put work history on your resume over / past 20 years. Apparently, the AI screening tools will automatically reject the resume if "they" see anything older than 20 years. Good luck out there!

I will have to re-do my resume!

Remember

People who are:
Conscientious
Educated
Loyal
Ethical
…often suffer more in systems that quietly reward politics.
You didn’t fail the system. The system failed you.
That realization is painful — but also freeing.
You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are transitioning out of a place that could not hold you with integrity.

Onward and Upward!

Maybe for the cost savings we get a new CEO that is at the Engine? Would save over 30 million a year. Or let AI do the ELT job, cant be any worse that what we have now. We are wasting millions on our ELT now!

Cut More People
Remove Processes
Take More Risks
Bring More AI
Rush to getting nothing done
Cause More Outages
Have more customers leave
Keep giving $20
Go Bust in the end
Get acquired by another company
Every executive makes money
Rest in peace Verizon

Is this true? Biggest employers are replacing some workers with All Indians?

https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2026/01/16/bank-america-wells-fargo-ai-job-cuts

The entire IT in the UK have been made redundant. The director, every manager.
This AI nonsense from Omar is destroying the company.

At CES this year, analysts delivered one of the bluntest assessments the PC industry has heard in decades. While Apple and Lenovo are projected to become mega giants by 2030, far larger and more dominant than they are today, HP and Dell face a very different trajectory. Experts described both companies as “too large to pivot quickly, but too dependent on legacy PC economics to compete at the cutting edge.”
The consensus across panels and private briefings was clear. HP and Dell will not disappear, but they will be significantly smaller by the end of the decade. Multiple analysts forecast that each company will be less than half the size they are today by 2030, a direct result of structural disadvantages that intensify between 2026 and 2030.
The forces driving this contraction are the same ones powering Apple and Lenovo’s rise: AI acceleration, unified memory architectures, and a global shortage of advanced DRAM and HBM that favors vertically integrated giants.

HP: The Enterprise Giant Without a Silicon Strategy
By 2030, HP remains a recognizable brand, but primarily because of its enterprise contracts an government relationships, but the printing ecosystem completely collapses. Its consumer PC business, once a global leader, shrinks sharply during the second half of the decade.
Analysts at CES highlighted three core weaknesses:
• No proprietary silicon
HP depends entirely on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA for AI acceleration. As AI PCs shift toward unified memory and custom neural engines, HP cannot differentiate.
• Thin margins in a tightening consumer market
Memory shortages hit HP’s mid‑range systems hardest. With HBM and advanced DRAM diverted to AI servers, HP’s consumer lineup becomes less competitive.
• Slow transition to AI‑native design
HP’s attempts to retrofit AI features into traditional laptops fall short of the performance delivered by vertically integrated competitors.
By 2029 and 2030, HP begins exploring carve‑outs and strategic restructuring to protect its enterprise business but the consumer footprint is gone.

Dell: A Server Powerhouse Dragged Down by Its PC Division
Dell enters the late 2020s with a booming server and data‑center business driven by global AI infrastructure demand. Yet this strength exposes the weakness of its PC division.
CES analysts pointed to several structural challenges:
• PCs lose strategic relevance inside Dell
As AI servers dominate revenue, the PC division becomes a low‑margin legacy business.
• Dependence on third‑party memory and GPUs
When HBM shortages intensify between 2027 and 2029, Dell prioritizes servers, leaving its PC lineup underpowered and overpriced.
• Enterprise buyers shift to AI‑native devices
Corporate customers increasingly choose AI‑accelerated systems from Apple and Lenovo, which offer better on‑device inference and unified memory designs.
By 2030, Dell’s PC business survives only through mergers, joint ventures, or partial divestitures, allowing the company to focus on its profitable AI‑server empire.

The New Hierarchy by 2030
CES analysts agreed on the broad outline of the decade ahead:
• Apple and Lenovo become mega giants, far larger and more dominant than they are today
• HP and Dell shrink to less than half their current size
• Acer and MSI exit the market entirely
• AI PCs replace traditional laptops
• Control of silicon and memory determines survival

Starting to see signs that something big is shifting in the Data & AI org. There’s quiet “rebalancing” happening and leadership changes piling up fast:
– SVP of AI reportedly on the way out
– Two VPs gone back-to-back
– Several senior leaders in India leaving.
– A couple of senior leaders from Data & AI now have their resumes quietly circulating in the market. Communication has been vague, lots of reorg talk but no real details, and plenty of closed-door meetings. This feels less like normal org churn and more like a coordinated reset after some big bets.
Anyone else seeing similar signals or hearing about more changes coming

The sheer stupidity of the way it was rolled out and that it hasn’t been rolled back yet. I hope no customers wanted any deployments this month.
Does anyone have any fun hawk ai stories?

An email went out today from CC with the 2026 Enterprise Priorities as if this is supposed to excite us and motivate us to work harder.

"Modernize, transform, and consolidate our technology" (translate: make more job cuts, rely on underpaid incompetent overseas workers to work around the clock, burn-out anyone still here by making them do the jobs of those who were cut too)

"Turbocharge data, analytics and workflow innovation" (translate: a pile of BS which means nothing but sounds good)

"Streamline and modernize our operations" (translate: Don't worry OneTru is our life saving measure and the answer to all our problems, but we still don't have the hang of it yet. But.. getting there, we think, maybe? Hello, is this thing on?

"Evolve our Go-To-Market approach" (translate: keep focused on plans for 2026 layoffs, with less expenses, our bottom line will look better and we can go on more fun excursions!)

"Drive AI innovation across all areas of the business" (translate: the sooner Ai can replace human jobs, the more money we'll put in our pockets from their salaries that no longer need to be paid! Fist-bump!)

Sorry but I just cannot read a list of enterprise priorities and not see the greedy corporate truth behind this veil of deception.

AI transformation with LLMs integrated even into toilet seats will be a huge flop and one he-l of an expensive experiment.

All the cash thrown at Palantir, Snowflake, AI APIs, AI engineers, LangGraph and the rest of it is going to deliver zero ROI and just pile on more headaches. The data at AT&T is in absolute terrible shape, loads of systems are vendor locked, and IBM still holds all the keys. We've also got the never ending battle between official IT and shadow IT, not to mention the CDO clashing with pretty much everyone else in the company.

Instead of actually putting money into rebuilding a solid foundation where customers, provisioning, products and a single billing system would properly live, we're just dumping millions into quick fixes and Band Aids dressed up as agentic AI (total slop) and into a fancy new campus that just about everyone is going to hate.

Sometimes it really feels like a lot of these decisions are being made because someone's getting influenced or straight up because of corruption.

Word on the street is, higher ups are actively training new AI agents to replace creative jobs in post production

Hold onto your butts

Hi Folks its that time again, need more excuses for the Analysts, what if say we are expanding AI offices in Venezuela, Greenland, Eye rack, and Canada, or were now run by the blue flag office headquarters. I could reduce the pay raises budget so only the chosen ones get the pay and then use it for more buybacks. Help help this Qtr will be another $5 million in the bank for me amigos.

In the last year, AI-related layoffs have started to feel routine, showing up nearly every week in corporate announcements. Businesses in multiple sectors are increasingly citing “efficiency improvements” from artificial intelligence as the reason for workforce reductions. While companies frame these moves as innovation-driven, many workers see AI being used as a cover for cost-cutting and restructuring.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-a-shorter-workweek-can-prevent-ai-driven-mass-unemployment/ar-AA1U0ce2

Layoffs in California in 2026 could be driven by stricter regulatory costs, higher wages, and increased taxes, which continue to impact business decisions. Some firms may shift operations to lower-cost states or reduce staffing levels to stay competitive. At the same time, companies investing heavily in AI and digital transformation may eliminate roles deemed redundant.

Yet again, the Briefly focuses on AI and continues to ignore what’s happening right now. It’s becoming truly concerning. Also, Melissa Kramer’s message only go to Minneapolis-based TMs? This is serious news with major media coverage, and it should’ve been communicated to all TMs. Whatever happened to Target Together? They’re just allowing us to be targets of federal agents.

Just got confirmation on February layoffs at the end of the month.
The numbers are staggering...
30% of collab being let go and replaced with AI.
Its time to become a plumber

Looks like these people are way too exploiting psychopaths so they want their slave humans to ask AI for solutions! So engineers you will never lose jobs, they will smoosh each other and milk companies saying stuff about human to human contact! Communication etc. they are still dependent on engineers to deal with anything engineering

The automatic rank everyone lower…
The place people on PIPs…..
The lack luster severance…..

Its all done to run off people to avoid any severance payouts AND it’s all designed to recoup money.

1.2 billion $ Russia mistake…the AI promise of cost savings….all black eyes and recouping money any way they can is the make up to cover it up.

So, use this as motivational fuel for later. The job market will get better. Trust me, there are jobs out there that pay more money than Citi, even more so since Citi is not giving up any $ for bonus’s or raises. Citi would have you believe that you’ve got a better deal “here” but at best Citi is average on pay and perks. This…all of this….that Citi is doing is a well rounded snapshot of what Citi thinks of you and your worth.

Take the hint and when things turn around, start seeking jobs outside of Citi even look beyond the financial sector. Use all of what Citi is doing to sharpen your focus on leaving. Use it as motivational fuel to leave once you find something comparable. As far as the return to office jargon…..you might as well work somewhere else for more money and go in the office there instead of here for less $.

Hearing from several prominent people that Goldman Sachs is taking over and mass layoffs are slated for next week (not just this past Friday) and beyond. I am also hearing that our friends overseas (you know- the offshore people in Pune) are going to be receiving any job reqs and locations like Lake Mary and Pittsburgh are going to be, if not phased out, greatly streamlined. Finally, the AI initiative is being met with heavy resistance from the "rank and file" and this, along with RTO and offshoring 'concerns', are a large part of the "rationale" for layoffs...this and the stock market (translation: how it benefits RV). 2025 will be nothing compared to 2026.

As Stank announces plans for the massive Plano campus, keep this in mind..
the mobility network is undergoing a massive ‘RAN Transformation’, which has been widely publicized by Ericsson and our internal
Leadership. Your favorite AI tool can help fill in the blanks.
Ericsson's HQ is conveniently located in Plano, very close to where the new Stank Campus is being built..
Coincidence? Maybe..
But ask yourself why that location and what happens once the network is solely Ericsson in 2028-2030?
For those looking to send your resume’..

Ericsson North America Headquarters is located in Plano, Texas. This is Ericsson’s U.S. headquarters at 6300 Legacy Drive, Plano, TX 75024. 
Key info
• 📍 Address: 6300 Legacy Dr, Plano, TX 75024. 
• 📞 Phone: +1 972-583-0000 (general office). 
• This site serves as Ericsson’s North America headquarters and supports corporate operations for the company in the United States. 

Ericsson also has other facilities in North Texas (for example, a 5G smart factory and innovation labs in nearby Lewisville and operations in Richardson), but the main corporate office listed above is indeed in Plano. 

If you need directions or details about specific teams or job openings there, I can help with that too.

• Angi, the company formerly known as Angie's List, is cutting 350 jobs, it said on Wednesday.
• Angi cited AI efficiency among its reasons for the layoffs.
• Economists and tech experts have predicted that more companies will replace humans with AI in 2026.

https://www.businessinsider.com/angi-layoffs-angies-list-cuts-350-jobs-ai-efficiency-gains-2026-1