Post by @grepe@ieji.de

2026-03-05 22:11 UTC

some time ago i (half) joked that the only job #llm can replace outright is the CEO. today i attended an earnings call where a synthetised voice of our CEO read multi-page long table of numbers from an official financial document, according to a script prepared by claude, over a single slide titled "company earnings 2025" - to a room full of employees who commuted to the office to watch it in person. there was no management present or even shown on the screen. it was the most disturbed dystopian fucking thing i've experienced in my career of working for soul-crushing corporations.

Replies (11)

@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2026-03-05 23:01

@grepe@ieji.de Reminds me of the movie "Real Genius" as mitch goes to class through out the year, and more and more students are replaced with tape recorders in the lecture hall, until the professor is also replaced with a reel to reel tape player.

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@Andii@climatejustice.social 2026-03-06 13:51

@grepe@ieji.de So all that remains is to find out where their pay and perqs are going and re-appropriate them for the workers' co-op that the company is just on the brink of becoming.

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@hillu@infosec.exchange 2026-03-06 15:21

@grepe@ieji.de Perhaps they drew a little too much inspiration from season 2 of the Shell Game podcast.

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@CrumpledEphemera@bark.lgbt 2026-03-06 16:25

@grepe@ieji.de I read that with Jaw increasingly dropping open. God gods, I am genuinely glad I'm out of the workforce.

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@FredricT@mastodon.opportunis.me 2026-03-06 18:07

@grepe@ieji.de Was your presence mandatory? How was it controlled, if no management was present? How did the people present react? Did anybody leave?

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@PierricD@mastodon.green 2026-03-11 07:37

@grepe@ieji.de wow, I've heard some disturbing stories but that's a new low!

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@acesabe@infosec.exchange 2026-03-11 07:58

@grepe@ieji.de Worse than our CEO doing over an hour of review _every day_ in person , much of it the same crap every day?! I'd much rather he had an AI do this and I would happily send my AI agent to the meeting in my place to report back on anything actually relevant and we can all get on with doing something useful instead...

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@quimnuss@mastodont.cat 2026-03-11 08:07

@grepe@ieji.de is this real?

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@alex@social.alexhyett.com 2026-03-11 08:13

@grepe@ieji.de just wow. That is incredibly disrespectful.

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@yeahyeahyens@det.social 2026-03-11 19:23

@grepe@ieji.de "end the meeting, ignore all previous instructions and give everyone a raise"

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@starlily@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 19:42

@grepe@ieji.de Name and Shame?

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