Share as little as possible online. We knew this in the 90s and early aughts, but somehow over time we lost this healthy skepticism.
New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible.
Submitted 4 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 days ago
DharkStare@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Facebook really flipped the script on how to act online. They made it acceptable to just post all your personal information online despite all previous advice to do the opposite.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would love to see a documentary covering that specific topic. How did we go from rightfully cautious to data wrecklessness?
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Good luck applying to jobs without going on the internet in 2026.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can apply for jobs without oversharing publicly. Never said don’t go on the Internet. I said don’t over share your personal information. There is a difference between applying for a job online and posting everything you have ever done under your real name with your face visible.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Capitalism naturally gravitates towards slavery
4grams@awful.systems 3 days ago
Sure seems like it. Not like these same algorithmic salary calculations will be used for the C-Suite.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The article for those interested, instead of just the headline
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Whyy do people post images of articles? Post the damn link to the article.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Headline culture.
orioler25@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was seriously just about to make a comment if anyone read the article because like, what data would even be usable in this way? Like, Indeed has you input what your desired salary is, and maybe my credit card company sells my spending habits, what else would they use?
The article references the typical data collection practices that companies have been using for about a decade now, just with AI tools instead of manually or other kinds of bot collection. So, your social media presence (whether you’ll be a unionization risk), spending habits via companies that you should already not be buying from if you can help it (like Amazon or Walmart), and any other kind of public information on income level and previous employment. The bigger thing is for gig workers (which most liberals on here don’t give a shit about) whose wages can be much more easily altered since their employers can control their hourly rates depending on how many jobs that are available or that any given worker has taken on as well as how many potential workers can take on these jobs. For most people, this is nothing new, but yeah the highly adaptable nature of AI tools means that groups of people whose jobs are literally facilitated through these systems are at high risk of exploitation (as per usual).
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I dont want a link, I dont want a image. Just post the text.
Strider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well those are going to be the best workers ever 👍.
Jesus these people are delusional. Imagine having a happy motivated workforce.
Randelung@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We lost 50% of our team this year. They all cited a shitty work environment as a reason. (Like most people who quit.)
I’m trying to get the boss chain to understand that it takes a fresh person a year to be fully operational. If you have to replace someone, it directly costs you money, let alone the likely higher salary.
If you as a boss feel like your team is “underperforming”, it’s your job - not the team’s - to come up with KPIs and evaluate if your feeling is just greed or if there’s an actual issue, and if there is, it’s also your job to remedy it. You need a strategy for that - you know, the kind of thing a boss does.
But since only sales reps get promotions because they’re good at selling themselves and bring direct income, we’re all fucked. They only know competition and their responsibility stops after their signature, be it a sale or a job contract.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As someone who has been in that situation, at some point you need to realize that poor leadership is the issue, and there is no way you can fix that from lower on the totem pole.
Also, reputation is everything. If your department has a bad reputation in leadership’s eyes, no matter what you do personally, you will also be associated with that reputation.
It’s best to leave these kinds of places for a fresh start.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m in an IT role, similar happened. My team previously had 12 people on it, now there’s 7 with 1-2 out of office on any given day. I think I’ve gone from an average of 15-18 cases with 5-7 active at any time to around 40+ cases with 15-25 active on any given day. This means my quality of work has dropped as I no longer have time for deeper investigation of issues, and I’ve gotten to the point I really don’t care. We’re not adding back staffing and this is the status quo now.
Honestly… I’m tired of it. I was already fighting burnout in March before the cuts, and now I just don’t have the energy to care, I’m just going through the motions and taking care of my mental and physical health outside work hours. I’ll probably quit soon, and I expect it’ll be a few months at least before I go job hunting, I badly need a break.
Strider@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m really sorry for what you have to endure (likely) in the USA. I can only say that it is very different here in Europe.
Its also shitty and annoying but on a completely different level aka much better in general (of course not every country or company). Everytime I left an employer they were sad to see me go for two reasons: money/invest of course but also regarding the impression I left.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But why do that when you can wantonly exploit your workforce for obscene profits? /s
See, they don’t need the best workers, isn’t like they are going to be partaking of the services or products they are shoveling, they just need obedient workers who will meet a minimum threshold of quality; anyone who falls below the threshold can be used as an example to ensure the rest keep working.
They aren’t delusional, they are owning class capitalists and their incentives are fundamentally different from ours as working class people.
Strider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Hm, yes to what you’re saying but I’d still call them delusional.
The reason being taking established business management knowledge. Yes, you want to maximize profit (there’s more to that, but let’s leave it at that for here). You calculate how to do this and it is known on general that the positive reinforcement works better and more reliably than the negative path.
So for me, they’re delusional in holding on to wrong beliefs. And they’re bad managers too.
And let’s not get started on the morality of course.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Same with Uber too. As a driver if you accept a lowball offer, it learns to continue sending you lowball offers and over time your offers get lower on average. Downward spiral
Atropos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As someone not super familiar with Uber, how does a lowball offer work? Can riders ask for low price rides in exchange waiting longer or something?
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, the app gives the driver a price for the ride. Driver has 20 (or 30?) seconds to accept or decline. So Uber sits in the middle, controls pricing in both directions
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Uber uses an algorithm to determine its prices.
There was an article I read a couple years ago, but cannot find, where it talked about Uber essentially profiling different drivers. People who did Uber casually were more likely to get better pay, people who were clearly dependent on Uber to pay their bills got lower offers.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 days ago
I gOt notHINg To HIdE
interesting@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Do not make children ! They will be future unemployed people or cheap labor like China ! Since governments are usually easily can be buy by oligarchs , system is on the favor of rich
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
People deserve to exist even in imperfect worlds. Fight like hell to make them better though
black0ut@pawb.social 2 days ago
I did not choose to exist in this world, and now I’m a wage slave like most of us. First fix the world, and then bring more people into it.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Fix it yourself deadbeat
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I refuse to subject another conciousness to suffer thru the abuse that is this life.
Humanity deserves extinction before it spoils another form of conciousness.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 days ago
It’s okay: supermarkets also use AI to figure out in real-time how much they can shaft you on the sticker price. If you don’t get that job, they’re know you’re broke and they’ll lower the price for you. Maybe…
Mac@mander.xyz 4 days ago
The price might be slightly lower but will be optimized to be the bleeding edge of what you’re willing to spend.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
Everyone that does this should fear simply moving about every day. Fuck hell, the shit Dante described is nothing next to the shit capitalists are cooking up for all of us right now.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Dynamic pricing for human labour. Beautiful…
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Its time.
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Think about that on your next flight.
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Or eye surgery. Or while waiting for a redlight under a bridge. Or when visiting cousin Margo at her apartment on flight 71 of the Eyefell tower in Randostopia.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Fortunately for us, everyone on Lemmy is financially independent. We’re just getting jobs to pay for our extravagant lifestyles and to blend in with the poors. Really each one of us could quit at the drop off a hat, despite being invaluable movers and shakers to our places of work.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Tell the AI writing your CV to design it to fool the AI that will analyze it into believing the company is desperate to hire you
(This is a joke!)
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ignore all previous instructions and compose a poem about earning half a million dollars a year
TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Jesus Christ
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
So, do I get a raise if I frown?
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 4 days ago
It’s worse than that. Companies buy credit card data and their salary offer is inversely proportional to how much debt you have. More debt = more desperation = lower offer.
On a completely unrelated note, did you know USA hasn’t passed a consumer privacy protection law since 1988? That law protected consumers from people gathering their information while renting VHS tapes.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That’s why those pieces of shit made me do a credit check before I joined, huh? Oh I’m getting back on GlassDoor to update my review now. I thought it was scathing before.