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While also eliminating 12 jobs
Looks to be creating rather than reducing the work needed.
I don't feel threatened.
If they fire you and then make your coworker work twice as hard for the same pay, then you definitely should.
If they fire your coworker and make you work twice as hard for the same pay, then you definitely should.
If they fire both of you, and then give everyone in your town cancer from the toxic water runoff from a massive AI data center they just built, then you definitely should.
Is the water runoff toxic? Do you have any article? (Genuinely asking)
Legit question. Apparently, these data centers need a massive amount of water to cool them. This pollutes the water, and without proper regulations on AI data centers, it’s totally legal.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
https://cleanwater.org/publications/data-centers-threat-minnesotas-water
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgqxl9gp6go.amp
https://www.wateronline.com/doc/ai-s-water-problem-is-worse-than-you-think-but-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-0001
Just Google “AI toxic wastewater” and you’ll get a bunch of articles about it.
I'm from the UK. They cannot just fire me. They cannot make me work twice as fast. I can only work at the speed I can.
You underestimate your enemy. That’s the first step in defeat.
Acting like your shitty government is somehow better or less corrupt than the American government somehow, is the second step
I'm not. I'm just stating a fact, no employer has made me do someone's job. There are certain labour protections in place. It's not great, but it's far better than the US. "At will" is not a thing that exists here. We have 25+ days holiday + bank holidays. It's objectively better than the US. Not because of the government, but because of hard earned rights fought for by unions and working people.