Coworker Talking About How Tired He Is Unknowingly Making the Case for A.I. Replacement
"Man, I'm running slow today"
A local man at his corporate job made the mistake of audibly expressing his fatigue.
“Man, I’m running slow today. I’m going to need a second cup of coffee,” said the man to nearby coworkers.
While the man’s coworkers recognized the comment as harmless, corporate banter, the man’s baby boomer boss saw something far more devious: inefficiency.
Not just inefficiency, but inefficiency on the company’s dime. That. Can’t. Happen.
“You know who wouldn’t need that second cup of coffee?” the boss thought to himself.
“A.I.”
For decades, complaining about how tired you are has been a tried and true way to break the ice with co-workers. Not anymore.
Lines like, “I’m running on pure caffeine today,” or “the weekend can’t come quick enough,” have always been reliable ways to fill the silence.
However, now that A.I. is looming, these comments about fatigue are no longer just reliable one-liners, but rather activation phrases to trigger Corporate America’s most trusted allies: baby boomer bosses.
Admittedly, baby boomer bosses don’t know much about A.I., what it stands for, or what it can do, but they do know A.I. will never get tired, never take a 15 minute bathroom break, and never tap into that corporate 401(k) match program.
And that sounds like a pretty sweet deal; that sounds like corporate efficiency.