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Hey there, future machine overloads,

Ever been asked to dig your own grave, but with “team spirit”?

That’s what it feels like when your boss rolls out AI deployment and suddenly you're in a Zoom titled “Document Your Workflow for Optimization.”

Translation? “Show the robot how to replace you, please. And smile.”

And if you think you’re safe because you’re “strategic,” let me remind you: so was Napoleon, and we all know how that ended.

Spoiler: he ended up exiled, broke, and dying on an island nobody wanted to visit.

🧨 THE RANT

“Just document your process,” they said.
“It’s not like we’re automating you.”

Let’s cut through the synergy-scented bullshit…

AI isn’t coming for jobs. It’s coming for tasks. But guess what your salary is based on? Tasks! And once enough of your “low-level” work is offloaded to a silicon intern with no PTO, your “high-value contributions” become “redundant.”

It starts innocently…
You’re asked to “test out this tool.”
You’re looped into “AI transformation sessions.”
Then you’re told to upload your processes into a system that just happens to automate 80% of your role.

Now you’re not a knowledge worker. You’re a data donor.
A guinea pig.
A meat-based plug-in for corporate cost-cutting.

And here's the kicker…the people asking you to teach the bot?
They don’t understand your job.
That’s why you’re training it.

Executives love to talk about 'AI-human synergy', but let’s be real.

It’s code for: “Keep the humans working until the bots can replace them.”

Meanwhile, you’re watching your expertise get turned into prompts and your career into a case study for a team in Bulgaria.

No severance. No warning. Just vibes.

Truth Be Told…

The real fear isn’t if AI is coming for jobs, it’s that no one at the top seems to know how it’s doing it, or taking the repercussions into account.

We're not afraid of technology.

We’re afraid of being left in the dust while a chatbot gets promoted and we get a “reorg” invite at 4:30 p.m.

And what are companies doing with all this anxiety?

Mostly pretending it’s not real, tossing out words like “upskilling” while quietly handing your workflows to a bot that doesn’t need lunch breaks or health insurance.

📊 DATA THEY HOPE YOU IGNORE

Translation?
Three out of four workers are using AI like duct tape, holding their jobs together with tools no one trained them to use, while execs pretend “self-directed learning” is a development strategy and not a liability.

Meanwhile, 80% of employees are begging for actual training, and companies are like, “Hmm…how about another webinar from the guy who still types with two fingers?”

We’re not resisting AI.
We’re drowning in it with no life vest, unless you count a 6-minute Loom video titled: “How to Leverage AI for Value-Driven Outcomes.”

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💬 Real Talk

This is exactly what no one at the top seems to understand:

AI isn’t the threat. Misuse of it is.

You didn’t use AI to replace anyone, you used it to rebuild something human. You made technology serve a story that mattered. You gave your parents purpose, not performance metrics.

That’s the edge no one’s talking about.

You didn’t blindly "optimize." You got your hands dirty, fought the chaos, and then used AI to make it better, not cheaper, not colder, just better.

That’s the playbook every employee needs right now. Not fear. Not forced upskilling. But clarity, ownership, and smart tools that make us more powerful, not more disposable.

You didn’t train your replacement.

You trained the future you, and gave your family a reason to show up for it.

More of this. Less “synergy.”

💡 POWER MOVES OF THE WEEK

You can’t stop the machines. But you can outplay the humans deploying them.

Here’s how to stay ahead without selling your soul to the algorithm gods: