its so wide open cuz half the dudes in the trade dont even really want to put in effort, got promoted so quick its actually a shame
Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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Time to go back to New Delhi.
Brandsdale
Big Yella
this is NOT a time for blue collar and tradesman to act smug
tech evolves in ALL facets of society. What happens when a robot starts welding and fixing toilets?
tech evolves in ALL facets of society. What happens when a robot starts welding and fixing toilets?
Brandsdale
Big Yella
Or just welcome them to Canada lol
This is worse than I thought
This will cause a shake up, idk how it quickly will be enforced.
But it should cause some companies to react fairly soon.
I can't wait to walk into the office on Monday. My office is like 75% Indian but management gaslights everyone that it's only 30%.
threattonature
Veteran
Yeah damn near the whole team at my old job has been wiped out at this point. One wanted me for a reference so I was asking what happened and he basically said they were cutting all developers with experience and high contracts for cheaper outsourced developers. A couple had to change industries and take huge pay cuts. Others had to take on contractor positions to pay the bills but still looking for something permanent.
I'm seeing it in my own company. When I meet with the development team it's like 80-90% foreigners now and even our implementation and QA teams are all foreigners too. We've shipped out a bunch of senior execs or they were given the option for early retirements. We also have directives on figuring out how to implement AI going forward to reduce depending on our staff for certain tasks. The funny part is we've struggled with generating profits in large part because we've lost so much expertise over time that we can't get shyt out the door.
Its just a big shytball growing to save money and cook stocks because AI will help but womt do what it is being sold as so the wonder is if we thug it out will post trump the buble burst and we see a boom to fix this mess
not happening any time soon
economically it isnt that viable or different from the perspective of a consumer to hire a robot or a real plumber unless the robot is so cheap that the corporation owning it can charge an extremely cheap price or a consumer can buy their own and store it in the closet lol
threattonature
Veteran
This is admittedly speaking out of ignorance, but could the next step though be hiring a few experts that have the knowledge and then hiring cheaper labor to saturate the field who are guided by the one expert. With the advances in video apps, an expert could walk the cheap labor through the work. So now instead of hiring 4-5 people with high salaries, you can hire 1-2 then get another 10 for much cheaper doing the leg work?
shyt that's what happened at both software companies I've worked at. Each department was dumbed down where it went from everybody knowing the software from front to back to only being a few with that much knowledge and the rest a very basic understanding who covered the front line.
Gritsngravy
Superstar
It also means more competition for the jobs now, which also means lower wages for trades
So no this isn’t something to act smug about cause lowkey depending on what people went to school for those people might leap frog some career tradesmen
its the perfect time to be smug because i know that robots being able to do hvac work at mass scale is 15+ years away
AND
in the field not everything is by the book
AND
techs would robot proof systems on purpose aka rig it to make robots fail
AND
top techs in 15 years would just use robots as helpers to get work done faster.. we’ll be the top techs by then
Not sure if it's just me but our Trade guys being smug doesn't bother me one bit. I'm glad their happy.
I wouldn't trade working in IT (GovTech) for the world. The private sector pays more but you can clear six figures in Gov Tech.
If I had to work another industry it would be either Healthcare or a trade. Tech is too perfect for a person like me you don't have to deal with as much drama as you would healthcare and you don't have to put wear and tear on your body like working a trade.
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
Good for you IT brehs. fukk those Pajeets.
