The Standard Chartered boss said he values all colleagues and is committed to helping them cope with change.
  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    140·
    1 个月前

    The biggest clue was when they started referring to us as a “resource”. We’re just another input on their spreadsheet.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      37·
      1 个月前

      I used to work at a place that actually changed the name from Human Resources Dept. to Human Capital Dept. and none of the higher ups could figure out why that pissed everybody off.

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 个月前

        Honestly people being either a “resource” or “capital” still makes people sound like they’re vespene gas or something

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        1 个月前

        Honestly, capital sounds better. Resources are something you comsume. Capital is something you invest with/in. People are just used to being called resources.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    84·
    1 个月前

    Who the fuck cares if he claims to be “sorry”? This wasn’t a case of awkward phrasing or poorly chosen words. It’s a reflection of how he thinks, and will continue to think. Even if he loses his job (which he won’t), he’d only be replaced by someone with the same attitude.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      1 个月前

      It’s not even that since they usually end up paying more for AI even when it produces far worse results. The rich just hold a contempt towards the working class and would rather the money they’d use for salaries go to their rich tech company friends in the form of AI-use invoices

      • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        Yeah specifically with AI, that and the whole “scan and summarize all cloud messages and storage and remove the average person’s ability to buy any technology and force them into a locked down cloud only experience” has been coming together for a while now so they’re edging so hard

        But I mean in general they just can’t comprehend not keeping it all

  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish
    40·
    1 个月前

    I’ve never understood the purpose of forcing executives to apologize.

    He said exactly what he meant, to a group of investors who largely feel positively about his message.

    A forced apology is condescending and meaningless, and therefore I cannot see how it improves optics in any way.

    • kat_angstrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 个月前

      The culture of corporate of PR insists that not only do meaningless canned responses help, but they’re invaluable. After all, the media will faithfully record those canned replies and reproduce them as though they’re salient information, no matter how empty and vapid the cloud of buzzwords produced.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    1 个月前

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The only job that I am 100% certain could be successfully offloaded onto an AI is CEO.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      112·
      1 个月前

      I dunno, those Indian call center reps that can speak English but not understand it can already emulate what AI does fine. Both don’t understand what they are doing or saying and just following an obnoxious script.

  • Nakedmole@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    1 个月前

    The problem isn’t even this particular pos, its that almost all rich people think this way.

  • droniecarp@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    1 个月前

    This guy provides zero value to society. He steals value created by others and claims it for himself. He’s on the list.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    25·
    1 个月前

    This skinsuit and whatever is inside it are the main reason countries are failing, we have robots without any capacity for humanity in positions to direct our lives, not just in banks, politics, healthcare, security and none of them care about us, we’re nothing to them, barely accepted as an annoyance that they have to pay.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    1 个月前

    Bank boss sorry after being called out for describing workers as lower value human capital

    FTFY

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 个月前

      Bank boss delivers opposing sentiments in fraudulent effort to increse personal wealth by increasing bank’s stock price.

      FTFY

      (You assume a person with no empathy can be sorry)