Why am I being forced to use AI at work?

“It was very common for CFOs to schedule meetings with the IT Director... and talk about the cloud strategy. And if you were in the room by any chance, they would turn to you and say, "But don't worry, the cloud won't take your job," with a grin”source ↗

“Hold your true opinion about AI as much as you can, and always be positive about it at work.”source ↗

“My boss has demanded that we work to make all of our workflows agentic. He wants to turn AI Loose in customer environments across many different industries. It scares the shit out of me”source ↗

“Should I be using it more? I think if I did, i would be opening the org up to more risk than I’m willing to wager my career on.”source ↗

“The FOMO you are feeling is a marketing ploy.”source ↗

“I keep hearing people talk about "agentic AI" and autonomous agents. I’m starting to fear I might be missing out on a massive productivity boost.”source ↗

“My title is security specialist but in practice i am mostly a sysadmin that practices responsible configurations. I only really use AI for asking questions and writing power shel, I worry I am not upskilling enough in itl.”source ↗

“My organisational heads have recently decided that AI is the way to go and want *everything* AI generated, especially things like user guides and change announcements.”source ↗

“This has currently culminated in the expectation that no changes can be communicated to the org without being an AI generated page/poster - which cannot capture the depth of nuance that a full guide would usually entail.”source ↗

“Taking my approved by the business communication and turning it into an AI slop poster in order to communicate required changes hurts my soul.. anyone else in the same boat?”source ↗

“I feel like I can’t escape this trash and no one wants to do anything better.”source ↗

“I feel like I’m the only member of my staff not using it.”source ↗

“Has anyone been fired or had their jobs threatened by refusing to use generative AI? I’m super nervous about it lately.”source ↗

“My thing right now is that a lot of my classes are shifting to focusing HEAVILY on AI and implementing it for lesson planning, creating rubrics, tracking data, etc. and I gotta say, I just do not like it.”source ↗

“I just personally hate using it and I ESPECIALLY hate being forced to use it.”source ↗

“I am concerned that I will be either 1) explicitly instructed to utilize AI because the school is paying for it and they want to be with the times or whatever or 2) that they will scope creep the job to the point where it's impossible to do without AI and justify it by saying "just use the AI it will make your life easier."”source ↗

“If you are not actively gushing about it or exploring all the different things you can do with it, then you are not part of the community and need a reeducation.”source ↗

“When I’m planning a lesson, people will stop and lecture me that I will have a much easier time doing it with ChatGPT and I need to stop being so resistive.”source ↗

“Part of my improvement plan is to now filter every parent communication through ai to make my tone sound warmer.”source ↗

“Now I feel like either I’m in the wrong or I’m in some kind of Truman show scenario where everyone is trying to pressure me into something I haven’t even been fighting that hard.”source ↗

“Are all of my admins’ slide AI garbage? Mostly, yeah.”source ↗

“Campus-wide top down push to normalize AI isn't helping.”source ↗

“I'm pretty sure my new science curriculum is mostly AI. It's terrible.”source ↗

“Teachers with taste and ethics definitely still exist, but I agree that the onslaught of slop is exhausting and depressing.”source ↗

“Many of us are increasingly being pressured to use AI for the curriculum development and feedback parts, too.”source ↗

“My district has definitely hopped on the AI train. Our weekly agenda is AI…. One time it left off Thursday on the agenda.”source ↗

“I’m one of the teachers working hard to make things new on my own, and I feel like I’m all alone in this.”source ↗

“We need to keep track of many things happening in parallel and read enormous amounts of generated text. The constant guardrailing, decision making, and context switching overload me.”source ↗

“I work on multple features (generally 4-5 work streams) concurrently, so am constantly context switching.”source ↗

“I'm exhausted.”source ↗

“Yes, the worst (or just longest) pieces of slop tire me out. When I leave work I usually cannot read or spell properly.”source ↗

“My boss just told me that if I don't start using it daily and sending a summary of what we've done at the end of the week with copilot, we will face discipline or possible termination.”source ↗

“They want us to be using it to write all emails to clients. I know when someone writes an email to me with it I can tell immediately and I find it patronizing.”source ↗

“I think it's a bad look when leadership normalizes the use of AI.”source ↗

“When they first introduced it I was feeling particularly insecure about my job and psychologically unsafe. So even though I wasn’t into it, I had to act like I was.”source ↗

“if I get one more grant application that’s clearly all first pass AI copy… or have to sit through another senior leadership “KPIs and strategic planning” session where the slide deck, leadership’s goals, *everything* is just pure unedited AI slop… I think I might lose my mind.”source ↗

“Fuckking cry as work piled up, can barely take the time to go take a shit, 2 hours would kill the company”source ↗

“Do you stand chance against AI? Who knows but from what I’ve seen there are a small mistakes that humans do.”source ↗

“This is not something we can afford brush off, this is a survival mode. Either embrace AI or be replaced by someone who is using it”source ↗

“What I find challenging is how to bridge the gap between “ai is the future, and I want to be part of that future” - and “I don’t want to do anything with AI”.”source ↗