r/GirlDinnerDiaries • u/Difficult-Bug90 Delulu • 8h ago
Sad Girl Dinner ⛈️ AI stole my job today
(Chicken-bacon sandwich)
Three hours ago, my manager had arranged a meeting with me. On the way to the meeting, my manager seemed shook. When I opened the door to the meeting room, a representative from HR was sat in there. That’s when I realised what kind of meeting I was going into.
Basically, my role is going to be “fully automised”, as they put it. Well, good riddance, and good luck with that.
I am sad today because I formed friendships at this company. My best friend works there. She was also there with open arms the moment I needed it. Right afterwards. No matter what happens now, I know she is a keeper.
I don’t know what to do now. We’ve just bought a house and are dependent on a stable income. I’m sad and deeply frustrated.
Good luck to the rest of my team, and the rest of this industry. I was just the first one of us to be treated with this kind of farewell.
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u/Rough_Rush7914 LET ME EAT CAKE 🍰 8h ago
I’m sorry to hear that… I hope that you were offered a severance package to stay afloat in the meantime.
If you don’t mind me asking, what was your role that got fully automated?
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u/Difficult-Bug90 Delulu 8h ago
It was an administrative role. Don’t want to get too far into it as to not be recognised :)
I know that it is quite normal for roles like mine to go into extinction at the moment, but I am still sad, because I worked my ass off and actually liked my job.
Regarding the severance package, yes. Fortunately I am European, which also helps in this situation.
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u/jamminatorr mouth full, gesturing wildly 7h ago
Ugh. The "automation" of administrative roles is just so frustrating. I find the higher level management roles truly do not understand that despite the role title being 'administrative' the amount of discretion and decision making that takes place everyday to cater to internal individuals, specific issues, vendors, the public, clients etc are huge. Admin is really important to the functioning of the company and how it treats people both internally and externally.
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u/aurortonks APPROVED✨ 3h ago
Admins set the vibe for the office, keep everyone from boiling over, and bridge the gap between groups & divisions. Having an AI robot do that will remove any warmth and care that position requires and the office is going to suffer from it.
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u/Darkspire303 Carb-Based Life Form 5h ago
Damn I thought Europe had better regulations in general to prevent this sort of thing. Sorry you are going through it
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u/Valuable_Echo2043 🌈 Vagetarian 2h ago
That’s frustrating. I work for an AI company and even we have admin people. I’m not sure the leadership at your (previous) company fully thought this through. I hope you land something better where people value the work that you do.
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u/Osi32 🩵NB💙 7h ago
They’re making a mistake. I work in AI. Automation must be managed and the people who did the job are the ones who need to do it. The benefit of automation is parallelisation and scale, but it still needs people who know how things work correctly. Find a place that will value you and respect you.
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u/cutesiepieme APPROVED✨ 7h ago
This. I don’t trust it with anything and have to double check everything
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u/SpiritedEclair Feral Til Fed 2h ago
The amount of times I had to correct their top of the line models on things that they were supposedly good at is beyond me.
Absolute garbage code! Yeah they write it fast, but honestly at times I wish I had a mid level or a junior inspect it first.
at least the juniors and mids can develop taste and feel for what is good.
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u/Itzani-Corbucci Baked Fresh Daily 😚💨 6h ago
yeah, this is the part companies seem to miss. if you’re automating a process, the people who actually know all the weird edge cases should be involved, otherwise you just end up automating mistakes at scale. hope OP lands somewhere that actually values that experience.
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u/Carol_ine2 🍋 Bitter Baddie 🍋 6h ago
I'm quite sure I'm getting fired this year lol. You are right they asked me multiple times to help automate my job but they never mentioned what I will do after so I was like it's hard I'm not sure let's try to focus on something else. I've heard there is some big automatization going on with payment platform that is my main responsibility they didn't told me about so I'm 99% sure I'm out. I won't work for me to be fired and I hope it will backfire when they fuck something up in the proces but yes this take doesn't change a thing. You will be asked to automate your job and then they will let you go few extra months won't change a thing
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u/GroundbreakingWing48 🧂Salty By Nature 7h ago
I work in management implementing AI features and I 100% agree.
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u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 7h ago
Sorry, but do you not feel yucky working in AI?
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u/MultivariableTurtwig Overthinker 💭 6h ago edited 6h ago
Capitalism is the problem, not AI. AI is more being used as an excuse for layoffs now…
Machine learning is a technology that has existed a long time, and has gotten much better the past 10-20years. It’s just a bunch of mathematics, nothing inherently evil about it
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u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 7h ago
Pretty fucking good because I have a job I go to every day that is against AI usage and aligns with my morals and values.
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u/Lina0042 🧂Salty By Nature 6h ago
And your morals approve putting down other people who are not in the same privileged position as you are?
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u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 6h ago
My morals approve of holding people to higher standards in the hopes all of us can improve with time. I worked hard to find a job I’m proud to have.
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u/BitchThatReads 🌈 Vagetarian 5h ago edited 3h ago
I think you don’t know enough about an individuals situation to be “holding people to higher standards” on reddit. The job market isn’t good enough to be shitting on someone for a job that you don’t even know if they want to work. I’ve been unemployed so long that if I was offered a job in AI that could financially support me I might take it. You don’t know peoples circumstances or responsibilities enough to pass judgement, and people need to make a living to support themselves and their families. Don’t tell someone to “just quit their job and find one that is better” unless you’re going to give them a job offer too.
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u/Time-Cell9274 Feral Til Fed 7h ago
Remind me in five years.
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u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 7h ago
In five years we’ll all be dead because of climate change anyway.
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u/WarForMuffin Kitchen Witch 7h ago
Yeah, and in no small part thanks to AI lol I'm with ya
My job is moving forward with AI use (which is failing miserably and costing the company a lot of money) and I'm looking for a way out ASAP (sadly job market is trash, but oh well)1
u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 7h ago
I get you. I just did a similar change. I had a job that was really pushing for everyone to use as much AI as possible. I ended up finding something better where my boss is also against AI. It’s a much better place to work all around.
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u/Time-Cell9274 Feral Til Fed 7h ago
And some of us have actual responsibilities like families and homes or need our jobs for the health benefits. What a privileged and out of touch take - in this job market - to brag and say yeah I quit my job because my boss expected me to leverage ChatGPT to write an email.
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u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 6h ago
It’s hilarious to assume I don’t have responsibilities and a family that relies on me to work. I didn’t even say how long it took to find a new job. It took time, but I put the effort in so I could work somewhere that didn’t make me feel sick walking into every day. I clearly said they wanted it leveraged in every part of the company, in every part of my job, including firing people and replacing them with ai and firing people to hire offshore employees for $3 an hour. You don’t know anything about my life. You’re just lashing out because I did the hard thing that you can’t or won’t do.
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u/WarForMuffin Kitchen Witch 5h ago
Awesome that your job has health benefits, not all of us have that luxury, so... In your own words, what a privilege to brag about that /s
Jokes aside, not sure how productive that attitude is here, we're all trying to survive, just some people are willing to risk more for their values, others (like you) value other things over this moral issue.
Sadly, the only winners are the big companies that are destroying the planet, destroying us and dividing us with dumb arguments like this. If everyone refused to work for them for using AI, they'd be forced to close, or not use AI, and the problem would be solved. Divided we're so weak, we could all do so much more... but I get that these times are hard, and some don't want to risk the wellbeing of their families for a fight. Sadly, the consequences will affect our kids, and they won't have a way out. We live sad days, I wouldn't waste our energy on these senseless fights pointing digital fingers and assuming things you have no clue about, you know?→ More replies (0)-5
u/Time-Cell9274 Feral Til Fed 7h ago
I’m pouring one out for the 12 monthly listeners on your Spotify podcast.
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u/ourpodcastisbest 🧂Salty By Nature 6h ago
I love when people pull shit out of their ass hoping it’ll hurt my feelings even though they have no way of knowing if what they said is the truth. We’re doing pretty well actually. Thanks for your concern.
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u/MutedMimosa APPROVED✨ 4h ago
“Fully automised” is such a cold way to tell someone they’re losing their livelihood 😭 I’m really sorry. At least you found out who your real people are today. Your best friend sounds like an absolute gem.❤️
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u/BridgestoneX Snack Goblin 7h ago
hopefully you'll find a much better job, so that when the 'automisation' proves to be a disaster and they ask you to come back, you can laugh in thier faces
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u/spicy-bathwater APPROVED✨ 7h ago
Me too girl, me too. They started bringing AI in to help “streamline” things about a year ago. Told us it was to make everything in our department easier for us and more time efficient.
30 of us (out of a team of 56) found out 2 weeks ago we’re being made redundant and “most of the work will now be fully automated”.
I feel for you.
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u/ohforgottensky Sweet Tooth Fairy🧚♀️ 7h ago
I've lost my job as an editor 3 years ago, and I haven't found a new one since. Entire newspapers in my country dropped their editorial teams and retained only reporters. There are very few editorial jobs available now, those that are pay very little. I'm lucky that around the same time my wife started a business that I now do full time.
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u/MossGobbo Snack Goblin 7h ago
No. Capitalists used AI as the excuse to fire you.
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u/Kitt3n_Mitt3nz Femininom(nomnomnom)enon 7h ago
Exactly this, and they're idiots for doing it. AI isn't at a place to "fully automate" anything successfully. It needs human input, monitoring, and correction, or it will hallucinate and make massive errors, it's just a matter of time.
I have friends that work in the tech and AI industries, and even the pretty pro-AI ones disagree with companies doing things like this. It's just going to lead to disaster when the human is cut out, full stop. They cannot be trusted to monitor themselves or each other effectively, it's not how they're made currently.
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u/Darkspire303 Carb-Based Life Form 5h ago
Honestly, in American business it seems like they are doing everything they can to create a disaster and funnel the wealth upwards.
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u/Kitt3n_Mitt3nz Femininom(nomnomnom)enon 5h ago
It really feels like it's deliberate at this point, like not even trying to hide it anymore.
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u/Darkspire303 Carb-Based Life Form 4h ago
Makes me.wondwr what's going on behind the scenes. There was a very sudden shift from sustainable profit pursuit to get as much as you can and burn the place down profit pursuit
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u/Kitt3n_Mitt3nz Femininom(nomnomnom)enon 4h ago
Oof, we may not even want to know the details 🥲 If I've learned anything about how society works in the last few years, it's that by the time the common person has been negatively impacted by a sudden-feeling shift, some nasty nefarious shit has been going on behind closed doors for quite a while. 😖
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u/Darkspire303 Carb-Based Life Form 3h ago
Fair points! I have a feeling that the Epstein files are but a small part of it, horrific as that is to say. 90's America would have burned the WH to the ground the second those dropped. They want us to lose hope. Hell no. All it takes is one spark at the right time, and everything these animals have built will be dust. Nothing is forever, this will pass.
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u/piperpastpudding 🥝 Herbivore 🫒 7h ago
I’m very sorry to hear that, it really friggin sucks. I can empathise because my job also has been slowly automated. I work in translation, legal specifically, and the industry has been slowly dying. As of this year, I barely had any income from it as a freelancer. Switching career in this economy is also difficult (well especially the field I want to switch to- NGO 🥲). I myself haven’t got to the other side but I hope we’ll make it soon.
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u/Time-Cell9274 Feral Til Fed 7h ago
My job hasn’t been killed yet (I’m waiting for it, hence why I’m moving on) but imagine sitting in big Town Halls, struggling with burnout because the org decided to cut staff and just be told to leverage AI rather than trying to find a full time employee.
And I hate to say it. But donating to charities and NGOs was one of the first things I cut back on when I needed to start saving money. And what friends in non-profit said to me - the corporate donations from 2025 were insulting compared to what was offered in 2023.
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u/Sea_Dew_5460 Foraging Bog Witch 6h ago
This, multiple rounds of layoffs and told exactly that "make sure you're using AI" but also don't use too many credits/tokens.........
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u/MaybeLithiumFlower Cleavage Crumb Collector 7h ago
I'm sorry, that's really hard.
I'm expecting a lot more of this in the coming year. I don't know how long my own job has remaining (tech job).
My one hope is that when enough people are unemployed and all new jobs are being done by AI they'll be forced to give us UBI (even if it's really only to prop up the businesses that rely on there being enough spare cash to buy their products).
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u/GardenVarietyAnxiety APPROVED✨ 7h ago
I'm heartbroken for you. AI/Remote equipment is becoming more common in my field, too, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time before my job gets the same treatment.
But don't blame the AI, blame your boss. And theirs. AI was handed your job by them, and as other's have said, it's wholly under qualified for it. You should be supervising it, not replaced by it.
I'm so sorry this happened to you 😔
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u/Expensive-Arugula730 Pantry Gremlin 6h ago
Im sorry. I’m hearing about this boomerang effect- where folks are laid off for AI slop and then brought back when the slop doesn’t work. Keep us posted
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u/BigRefrigerator9783 APPROVED✨ 4h ago
I am sorry this happened. Do not do a single thing to "help with the transition."
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u/thetheophilos APPROVED✨ 3h ago
Look, you didn't get fired or did something bad to be banned in the industry. You will get a new job and the reason for change will be a valid one in your case. Dont lose hope my love.
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u/Subject-Appearance27 pain: chronic, snacks: iconic 2h ago
I worked in customer service and also got replaced. Our team had a 2k ticket backlog when they fired many of us.
Meanwhile, my company's reviews on Trustpilot today:
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u/cutesiepieme APPROVED✨ 8h ago
A lot of the times they use AI as an excuse. I’m sure they already found an offshore worker at 1/10th the price.
Hope they regret it and you find better