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I once worked for a CPA who asked me what a balance sheet was for.

He was from a wealthy Tibetan family dynasty and clearly paid his way into the industry, but who knows why he would choose to do that because he clearly was completely over his head.

We used to call him Michael Scott sans charisma.

Unfortunately, it is paywalled. Can you copy the text for the rest of us?

Corporations are firing and laying off labor, but that labor is not being done by AI-- it's simply falling on those who are still employed or not getting done at all.

I resigned from an international public accounting firm due to having AI forced on very sensitive and delicate projects in order to lower costs. As a professional, every alarm bell went off and I left because I could be held liable for their terrible managerial decisions.

They told me they were sad to see me go, but AI is the future and hope I changed my mind-- this was all back in April.

Not only did AI fail to do a fraction of the work we were told it was going to do, it caused over $2MM in client damages that the firm then used to justify the firing of the remaining members of the projects' team for failing to properly supervise the AI, even though every manager struggles to open a PDF.

AI is not the future because it is literally only capable of looking backwards.

AI is a performative regurgitation of information that real people put the time and energy into gathering, distilling, refining, and presenting to others to evaluate and contribute to.

Even worse, AI demonstrably makes its users dependent and intellectually lazy. If you think about it, the more prevalent AI usage becomes, the less and less capable people will be left to maintain it. And to all the fools crying out that AI will take care of itself or robots will, I say:

All LLMs are hallucinating and going psychotic, and that is not something that can be fixed due to the very nature of how LLMs work.

AI is not intelligent. And while it could be, that would take far too much energy and resources to make cost-effective machines with as many neural connections present in the brain of an average MAGA voter-- and that is already a super a low bar for most of us to clear.

You have potential to become Lemmy's Shittymorph.

People around you are entitled to peace and privacy.

Your rights end where other people's begins.

I had this issue with my cat until I switched out the litterbox for a bigger one.

I'm currently going through something similar, and I'm just disposing of anything I do not immediately need.

Some stuff is very sentimental, so I asked my neighbor to dispose of it because I can't.

Keep it at. Little by little. It's all we can do.

It's infuriating! 😬

This is literally fraud.

You'd be stealing from other working class people like you.

Precisely where I was.

I was the third finance director for that division in two years, which is a terrible sign.

When interviewing, always ask about those who last filled the position and for how long.

I accepted a position at Amazon as a finance director for one of their many divisions, and it was hands down the most toxic work environment I have ever experienced-- and I've worked in public accounting for other a decade, so that's saying something.

I resigned within a couple weeks and found myself a much better job elsewhere.

Tax the rich instead.