this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
2 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

2641 readers
36 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
2
Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient (futurism.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/techtakes@awful.systems
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

“Go to your parents and ask them: hey, like every time I get a chance to talk to my boss, ask me if I can have more days off,” he said, per BI. “Ask your parents what they think of that as a career strategy.”

I do not support violence as retribution but I also reallllllllly want to slap this manbaby in the face, do his parents know he is behaving this way?

edit I would also like to note the evidence about employee efficiency being decreased from them being given vacations is simply not there, in the longterm vacations improve the performance of employees, thus taking them away and overworking employees is done out of spiritual and ideological belief not out of any actual pursuit of efficiency.

This ideology is deranged and unsupported by the science, even if you don't care about the dumpster ethics of it, which you also should too.

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] istewart@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

what the hell is facebook "shipping" that's so important anyway? more fake trump-as-jesus photos for louisiana snake-fondlers?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I would also like to note the evidence about employee efficiency being decreased from them being given vacations is simply not there, in the longterm vacations improve the performance of employees, thus taking them away and overworking employees is done out of spiritual and ideological belief not out of any actual pursuit of efficiency.

This ideology is deranged and unsupported by the science, even if you don't care about the dumpster ethics of it, which you also should too.

It’s like homelessness or crime- the best thing to do is to give people homes and actually rehabilitate them, respectively, but we don’t do those because they’re not punitive enough.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 1 points 4 days ago

Sure sounds like a way to sabotage the possibility of hiring anyone with any ambition in the future.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"AI" doesn't make us more efficient. Generative LLMs make slop that requires a lot of attention and revision.

Writing code was never the bottleneck.