Joe Parks History

Has anyone else noticed that Joe Parks came from Pizza Hut (technically the IT affiliate) and when he was there he oversaw the implementation of AI. In May 2026 a NY franchise owner opened a $100M lawsuit against Pizza Hut because they forced AI to be used and it was a disaster. Service tanked and sales dropped. Ironically Joe left them 6 or so months before the lawsuit. Hmmmm seems to me like he might have had a feeling something ugly was coming.

Now my real concern is the same exact thing is happening at SF. I work in ET and I can confirm 100% that the use of AI is getting crammed down our throats. We are being monitored to see how often we use it (being encouraged it should be daily) and leadership is pushing hard for use cases that make no sense. Sounds like Pizza Hut 2.0

#AI #Concern #Culture #Leadership #Monitoring

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Who would want to come here to our IT shop. Definitely overpay to get lower tier talent.

Playbook looks familiar. Step 1 is to speak in jargon and pull the wool over people’s eyes. Step 2 - overpromise. Step 3 - bring all his friends in at higher positions than they could achieve. Step 4 - get on board of directs and in about 24 months I predict a departure leaving behind undelivered promises and depleted talent.

Just outsource the whole department and be done with it. We dont know how to be an IT department/company.

But at Taco Bell they sang happy birthday and made a girl cry. How many times will we hear that?

AI is (Nothing more) than an (Over- Hyped) tool.

There are (10's of Thousands) of tools (Globally), and (Exponentially) more (Systems); in the Technology world.

I personally have used 100's of them over the years.

Come to claims and you will see that we are McBurger King insurance! He is the perfect hire!

SF keeps hiring execs from businesses that are failing catastrophically (Fu-kwad first, now Joe) and they wonder why we su-k.

Race to the bottom.

@aw why? No one wants to move to that cr-p hole. Do you want to lose what talent we have? And what exactly will in accomplish having ET under one roof?

Move ET to Bloomington. NOW!

Again State Farm is late to the party. Many companies are learning and cutting back on the AI experiment but State Farm thinks it will save them.

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