Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Goodbye SEs era, Hello Sales-robots

Microsoft is planning thousands more job cuts — targeting sales roles lmao
They're planning to basically replace them with AI. Can't wait for our AI Salesrobots lmao

Full Bloomberg article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-18/microsoft-planning-thousands-more-job-cuts-aimed-at-salespeople

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Whoever would think AI could replace a SE, really does not know what they are talking about, nor what a SE does day to day... #clueless

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I didn't understand... I didn't understand.. Let me connect you to an advisor Please try again later CLICK.

FTFY. More and more organizations don't have advisors anymore so if the computer doesn't understand it just hangs up on you.

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Post ID: @jt+1jy56qbkb

Common chat bot scenarios

  1. I didn't understand... I didn't understand.. Let me connect you to an advisor.

AI going haywire

  1. Advisor, Advisor, Ok, connecting you to an advisor

Don't want to talk to a robot, but to a human

  1. Hablas Espanol, Parle Francais,

This might be the only good thing about an AI chatbot.

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Post ID: @jm+1jy56qbkb

@b1 does you believy that they would ever implement click2clit or clit2clit to induce prime?

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Post ID: @gh+1jy56qbkb

@b1 might as change it to click2squirt because nothing is better than when the SE’s are gushing on camera and on the clock/cocko!

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Post ID: @gg+1jy56qbkb

click2shit was tried. they still have a website for it. tech needs unions and strong ones at that. that industry is out of control and its horrible how they treat people. everyone is a number on some sheet.

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Post ID: @b1+1jy56qbkb

an SE is a Sales Engineer. A technical expert on the company product.

They are biased toward their own product (even when they call themselves a "trusted advisor")

It is well known that Cisco products are overpriced, full of bugs and problems and have severe roadmap-creep. The feature you want is always just around the corner.

an AI LLM will be a perfect replacement for 80% of SEs

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Post ID: @af+1jy56qbkb

may be AI hallucinations will help with selling products and solutions that do not exist and people can not sue AI bot right ..

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