Boycott all of them. Don't work for them, don't buy from them.

Unionize

Unionize in alternate companies, perhaps.

Yeah, for layoffs and other issues in a company that caused or threatened stability, I can't imagine why you'd go back knowing what happened. Even if conditions change, there is still that history and potential for problems again. Fool me once...

“Double my salary or fuck off.”

(This isn’t meant as serious advice. There are too many desperate, unemployed people out there. Still, if you were fired but are happy with your new job, consider doing it for the personal satisfaction.)

People often don't have a choice, which is precisely why AI was pushed in the first place, in the end after the dust settled the people at the top don't really care if AI worked or not, they just care that it convinced society that programmers weren't a profession worthy of a quality of life where you can raise a family.

People need jobs, every day people are forced to take shitty jobs back, but this time programmers get to experience what getting hired back by a business after a cultural imprint in the business mindset has pervaded that all of the human programmers are "temporary" but in an indefinite sense.....

Welcome to the blue collar world, fools!

That just shows that executive class aren't just too arrogant, they are also too cowardly. Reminds me of this quote from Avatar The Last Airbender:

"Shame is not the opposite of pride, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to pride."

I have no hopes that these people would ever be capable of being humble.