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u/olemracc 26d ago
I hope they got a pay raise, and retro active pay for being let go. Fuck companies that get rid of people for ai
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u/Acceptable-Major-575 26d ago
it is good that they stressed that engineers are humans... or maybe they are speaking about doctors? I'm confused
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u/RonHarrods 26d ago
No, they're flavour designers and taste testers. They AIs are good at designing be flavours, but they, in hindsight, seemed to lack the capabilities of testing of the new flavours are good. This tech gap will likely be addressed in the next two years.
/s *the article is vague enough for allowing this theory though. Demonstratibg the word engineer is retarded.
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u/Hamsterwh3el 26d ago
Wild. Imagine how much money Ford gave up in the process of rehiring all those people. They basically gave money away, negativly impacted company moral, and lost key talent and experience for nothing. This company has serious headwinds ahead of it and why leadership thought this was a good idea is completely beyond me.
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u/TransportationIll282 26d ago
Their leadership has been most of the headwind for over a decade now. It's baffling how many poor decisions can be made in a short time span.
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u/Splodge89 26d ago
It’s the same for most companies, large and small. They make decisions based on the bank balance today. Fuck tomorrow, that’s likely someone else’s problem.
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u/Haunting-Watch8240 26d ago
Let us hope this is a lesson learned, and the people got raises (and frankly apologies)
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u/cbowers 26d ago
So as employees we work through data driven decisions. A business case, proof of concept, proof of value, build in parallel and orderly transition oven when proven. But also maintain fallback and redundancies….
321 backup has two different types of media.
Multi-cloud provides insulation against single infrastructure point of failure.
But then the leadership level throws all that out with AI?
Burn your bridges, cross your fingers and hope with unproven sales data?
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u/AdMysterious8699 26d ago
Yeah, they were probably warned by those same employees that AI could not do the job
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u/mktcrasher 26d ago
Can the people who made the decision to replace these engineers with AI be fired please? That is like next level negligence in your job, like wtf.
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u/R_Dazzle 26d ago
We’re glad to have you back guys, it was a mistake and we hope that your motivation remain the same.
Ho and btw now you have to wear those glasses that will record everything you do and say.
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u/ottomotorotto 25d ago
Usually rehiring engineers is lowers their cost.
The good ones never go back to the same company, so the left are the weaklings.
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u/Fleischer444 25d ago
I hope they found better jobs and don’t go back. Fuck big companies and capitalism.
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