Fear of AI replacing workers at job
Employees worry that learning AI tools may make them redundant, causing anxiety about job security.
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- our support team went from nine thousand people to five thousand this year and corporate keeps calling it efficiency gains from ai agents. im one of the five thousand left and every week it feels less like a job and more like im just waiting for my turn. the bot doesnt even get tired
- lost my third website client this year to one of those ai site builders, this one even sent me a screenshot of the thing they built in an afternoon like i was supposed to be impressed too. five years building actual custom sites and now im apparently competing with a dropdown menu and a template. didnt even get the courtesy of a real reason, just a see ya and good luck
- my actual job title is still support specialist but for the past month all i do is read the chatbots answers and click thumbs up or thumbs down. there used to be nine of us on the queue. now its me and one other guy grading a robot that is clearly being trained to not need us either
- Work rolled out a mandatory "AI proficiency score" this quarter. A dashboard that grades how well you prompt their internal tool. I have never taken a class on this in my life. If I'm getting graded on it, I'd like to actually get good. Any structured way to learn this beyond poking at ChatGPT and hoping?
- management had me write up detailed process docs for my role over the past two weeks, breaking down literally every step i take during a normal day. yesterday i found out those docs got uploaded straight into some internal ai tool thats supposed to support the team going forward. nobody said the word replacement out loud but it didnt need saying
- was at dinner with my parents last night and even they brought up being worried about ai taking my job, and they dont even really understand what i do for work. cant escape it anywhere anymore, not even sunday dinner. company did one of those reassuring all hands about human centered ai adoption and somehow that made everyone in the room more nervous not less
- Inflation is outpacing my raises again, and my manager has already hinted that the training budget is frozen this year. I would like to start learning something on my own that will hold up against automation. Has anyone found a structured course path that was worth paying for? Thanks in advance.
- What are you all actually investing your time in learning right now? With everything going on with AI and jobs, I'm trying to pick something that won't feel pointless in two years.
- A recruiter told me flat out that entry level openings on her team basically don't exist anymore, because AI tools now cover most of what junior hires used to do. I graduated in May. How are new grads supposed to start a career right now?
- my best friend from college got let go last week, her whole role got absorbed into an ai workflow tool overnight. she called me crying and i didnt know what to say because honestly im scared its coming for mine too
- my manager told our team today that entry level hires are basically frozen company wide because ai can handle a lot of the junior work now. i just started two years ago, am i already becoming obsolete
- a coworker on my team got replaced by an internal ai tool last week. she trained the thing herself without realizing thats what she was doing. now she's gone and the tool has her old email signature somehow
- anyone else feel like their AI tools at work are getting them measured on output they have no control over? our team's KPIs got updated to match what AI can supposedly do in a day. feels like we're being set up to fail
- If you are entry level in anything remotely administrative or data entry, please consider learning something more. I am not trying to be harsh. Over the last six months I watched 40 people on my company's operations team get replaced by one person managing an AI system.
- anyone else losing sleep over ai taking over their role. my manager keeps hinting we need to become more efficient with the new tools and i genuinely dont know if that means training my replacement. how do people even plan for this
- Can't tell if learning more AI tools is smart or if I'm just training my own replacement. Lose-lose.
- My illustration client of five years switched to an AI tool last month. Said it was a "budget thing." I've been thinking about that a lot.
- I run a small copywriting business. Six months ago I had 14 steady clients. Now I have 4. The others either built in-house AI workflows or just stopped needing content at all. I'm not against AI but I genuinely don't know how to compete or pivot. Open to any ideas.