Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.
  • devaly@ani.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Time to slack off and deliver the minimum possible then

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      That’s exactly what people should be doing anytime their company boasts about record profits/revenue yet halts pay raises or even has it lower than the rate of inflation.

      In my old job I just allocated a percent of my day towards job applications until I finally got out. Morons thought I wouldn’t be upset with a 15% pay cut over 3 years of working my ass off.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        “It’s a question of motivation. If I bust my ass and Initec ships a few more units I don’t see another dime. So where’s the motivation?”

        It’s insane that companies haven’t gotten this hint in the 27 years since Office Space was released.

        • phdepressed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 months

          Not wanting to starve is also a great motivator. Now that you’re struggling either way the motivation goes away.

        • 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 months

          They can’t change the incentives without re-inventing how companies work. They’re just structured in a way that gives bad incentives like that. And nobody wants to take a risk on their dime, or break the thing that makes them money, and by now it’s all basically set in stone. Until the whole system breaks and new things get organized in a new system probably.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2 months

        Quiet quit, show up a bit late, stretch your breaks by a few minutes, leave early, steal stuff, don’t do anything that doesn’t directly contribute to your job, volunteer for nothing, refuse to tithe to whatever their stupid charity is, max out every benefit, max out any family leave, file official complaints to HR, break stuff, don’t refill anything, do no maintenance on anything, umionize, etc.

        Be a paid employee, don’t be a good employee. Act your wage.

    • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      The CIA published a guide back in the 40s about how to disrupt fascist companies. It’s worth a google.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      Less than minimum, make them spend money on firing you.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      And blame the LLMs for all mistakes it makes. Since the management clearly cares more about it than the employees.

  • bigbangdangler@reddthat.comEnglish
    2 months

    To date, I have not heard a single CEO talk about where the money will come from if no one is employed.

    How can consumers consume if they don’t have any money?

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
      2 months

      that’s for someone else to worry about.

      Seriously if you talk to these people they live their lives financial quarter by quarter. there’s no plan for 2+ years down the line, they can’t think that far ahead. They’re all like this. It’s all about the now. make money now, release a product now, no future, no updates, now now now. This is why LLM’s appeal so much to them, it can provide that “now” that they crave.

      • hateisreality@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        When there’s a 20 million dollar golden parachute when fail why would you care about the next quarter…

    • h54@programming.devEnglish
      2 months

      Because these drug and AI addled idiots refuse to or can’t think more than a quarter ahead at a time. As there are no consequences for the executive caste, why should they?

    • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
      2 months

      That’s what the rich dickhead bunkers in remote locations are for, my friend.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Apparently long as bots are buying from them they care. The goal is keep the stock in green Apparently they don’t need consumers for that.

      • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        But what happens to the physical products that are taking up stock in warehouses?

        Or are they just digitizing everything to the point where bots are buying shit to optimize their functions so they can buy more digitized product?

        • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          They would be happy to have a ‘low volume, high value economy’. Only trinkets for them to trade among themselves at relatively high price, while they have no use for and therefore no interest in the bulk of the population. There is a reason they are very keen on surveillance and “law enforcement” because they think that might keep the rabble away from them cheaper than trying to appease the rabble.

    • Seleni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      May as well asked who the slave owners sold to since so many in the South were enslaved.

      The answer is the same. They sell to each other. We don’t get a cut. They dream of the day they actually get to have slaves again. Most of them don’t see us as people; they see us as things that siphon off money that needs to be in their pockets. Money we don’t deserve because we’re not rich.

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        Hell, they would be even happier to ignore the ‘rabble’ altogether. You at least had to keep the slaves vaguely alive.

        There’s a reason Larry Ellison said "“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on”, they want to contain the “unwanted” and keep them from being a risk while excluding them from the ‘economy’ to the extent feasible

  • barkybeak@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 months

    Saved you a click

    Teradata, a global cloud software company, told its 5,100 employees in January not to expect an annual salary raise this year as it reallocate the budget toward AI investments, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider and not previously reported.

  • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Great way to have half your staff quiet quit, and probably make at least a couple mad enough to really fuck some shit up.

    Stupid tech bros think they are entitled to hard work and loyalty, they arent, it must be earned.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Employees quitting is the goal. If they get them to quit they don’t have to pay unemployment.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 months

        yeah, so don’t quit. just do the bare minimum and collect a paycheque. it’s just treating them how they’re treating you, it’s fair

      • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        “Here’s a list of 4000 cities. can you generate the order in which to visit them. Assume trasportation by car and find the exact cheapest order.”

        • mangaskahn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Assuming similar input effort, a trebuchet is more durable and efficient. Better for throwing more CEOs while consuming fewer resources.

          • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            Hmmm… This brings up an interesting question for the physics nerds out there.

            The desired termination of the CEO is the sudden stop at the end of the flight.

            When using a catapult or trebuchet, excessive force exerted during launch would terminate the CEO immediately. This would deprive the CEO of his last luxury flight. .

            What the the maximum distance a catapult or trebuchet can throw the CEO while achieving this result? Assume the CEO weighs 100kg’s and is 165cm tall.

            • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2 months

              Quick search and napkin math mixed with some LLM says that at least 100m should be fine. Launch would be a bit uncomfortable at around 3g, but nothing a normal body couldn’t manage. Not that long of a flight, but a flight anyways.

    • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      probably make at least a couple mad enough to really fuck some shit up.

      Doesn’t matter if they’re mad or not. The company is demanding they use LLMs to vibe code their products, shit’s about to be fucked even if they get on board.

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    The company I work for did this last year.

    Unfortunately the tech industry can get away with this shit because the job market is a fucking nightmare and tech bros all think they’re too smart/skilled to need a union (neither of which is true).

  • Smaile@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    just quit on mass and save yourselves the time, it’ll likely collapse the company as an added bonus

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    Sweet. Time to stop giving a shit about work, and just shit at work. (Prepositions are amazing!)

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Teradata’s focus for 2026 is to “win in the market with AI,” CEO Steve McMillan said in the memo

    Oh boy… he is just chugging the AI kool-aid.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2 months

    a sign that a massive layoff is coming is: not having enough foronuses/raises, or if the ceo funds themselves with the cuts.

  • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    How this doesn’t result in a class action lawsuit is beyond me.

    Spineless cowards contributing to the death of the U.S. .

      • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        Class action lawsuits + general strikes? I’m pretty sure that would mean a hell of a lot, especially to the people drowning in despair due to… the ‘everything’ situation.

        • Smaile@lemmy.caEnglish
          2 months

          cool wake me up to when they actaully do that.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2 months

            Not the point of the thread Canadian, you’ll notice my initial comment calls them spineless cowards.

            • Smaile@lemmy.caEnglish
              2 months

              You misunderstand, I don’t believe it will actually happen. Your country has proven its unwillingness to stand up to or stop your current crop of leadership, I simply don’t believe it’ll happen.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
        2 months

        Why even have a legal system only for companies to battle their lawyers at a game of taking things from us? Why not just put hypercapitalism even more and allow them to buy politicians and laws? Or wait

    • heartSagan5@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      Because any money won is split amongst the members of the class action. So, the larger is literally pennies for the aggrieved, unless it’s literally $5 per member. Is that really motivating? $5 is a joke, what’s the value that’s worth a squeeze? $100?

      • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        I don’t think the payout is as important as taking money away from tech giants is. It isn’t an efficient usage of the money, of course that money could be spent to greater effect than just splitting it up piecemeal. Yes, it likely is a pittance compared to what billionaires are worth. However if literally everyone struck these people at the same time, class action lawsuits being brought against all tech giants alongside general strikes — suddenly they’re hemorrhaging money outside of the lawsuits and their technofascist bubble pops.

        Certainly naive to believe — as I’ve said the people I’m talking about are mostly spineless cowards that are contributing directly to fascism. I have no misgivings about whether what I want to happen will happen or not.