Don't show up late. Get a raise or leave.

Meh. Everyone needs to optimize for their tolerance to bullshit. It's a lot of bullshit to use leverage, or find another job, especially when employment is merely a means to an end.

Arriving late is like giving yourself an hourly rate raise

With AI, this assumption is proving false day by day. Critical resources have been let go by my employer in the hope of matching their contributions with junior/fresh engineers + AI. I have heard similar stories from friends too.

However, I am yet to hear a real life instance of a company walking back and rehiring - something that I keep reading in news.

Its reducing hours but getting no extra pay.

If you work less hours but make the same money, that's a raise!

Is your employer by chance hiring for junior/fresh engineers who won't use AI, or is using AI one of the job requirements?

I have 7+ AI agentic agents doing work for over 30+ people. All of these workflows are designed by me. If I don't show up to a meeting because I need a break, they can't do anything. Because if I ever left, they are fucked.

Honestly I rather they let me hire some human employees so I can train some of them. This entire company infrastructure lives and dies by me.

Yup. Your employer is not your friend. At the end of the day you don't owe them anything. Even more so in America. You are just a number. Act accordingly.

www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-ai-engineering-challenges-rehiring.amp
(Sorry for fox link, the other one I have is paywalled)

I personally know people affected by this, they were let got and last week they got offers to fix a bunch of stuff that AI did and didn't do

Where have you been for the last three years?

Interesting. We laid off all of our junior engineers, and only kept senior people who are now expected to use AI for junior engineer tasks, then review it all and fix it all. Would be easier for me to just write it all myself rather than babysit some AI and argue with it when it fucks up.

Oh no, I have to work less time for the capitalist class to enjoy the same quality of life. How terrible! What? I even get more time for myself which increases my quality of life? This is truly a total disaster!!!

What are you, the punctuality police?

If you are not replaceable because you do a ton of tasks other people can’t do, especially if you’re salaried, then it seems pretty fair to make your own time for things.

There are definitely other corners you shouldn’t cut when in that type of position, but being allowed to manage your own time is not one of them.

No. They actually have an interview round where the candidate is given access to a coding agent and a problem to solve.

Thanks. This is one of the news articles I had in mind while writing my original comment.

Salary is a thing.

Dude makes an account, waits three years to use it, and... every comment is glorifying AI.
Hmmm

Yep. It took a little while, but after seeing “leadership” make dumb decision after dumb decision just because it helps them win their turf war with another department or aligns with their personal politics, I stopped caring. I do enough work that if I got hit by a bus, things would fall off the rails. I don’t think anyone above me realizes that. But I rest safe in the knowledge that if I do get fired someday for some bullshit reason, I’ll have the last laugh.

I’ve been in this position before. It was highly satisfying to find out from colleagues that the person they hired after me couldn’t even half do my old job.

Me showing up to work late and taking extra long breaks because they keep scheduling me over 40 hours while complaining about me doing too much overtime.

When I was in college I worked at FedEx, and I'd leave early all the time to get to get extra studying done or spend more time in the lab. I knew they'd never get rid of me because there were already so few people who wanted to work at 2 in the morning in the middle of nowhere, and I was one of only a few who could actually handle 3 trucks without a bunch of missed packages and misloads.

Nah, I was working 3 weeks without a free day abroad, but that didn't count for my time back, so I still needed to sit in the office, although I needed some rest and there wasn't much to do for me in this week

My direct boss said, that I'm often coming in late, but I'm always here when needed, doesn't matter what
And he said this as a positive thing

It really depends on the job though

Survivorship bias i suspect, the company needs to fuck up big enough for it to be worth noting, survive that fuck-up and then admit enough wrongdoing (fiscally, if nothing else) to be able to be in the situation where a story like that would come out.

I think we'll hear more over time, but as a thing that happened in the past.

Some companies might not survive to rehire, some might only just survive and rehiring isn't on the cards.

Some might limp forwards and work through without rehires.

Me showing up to work knowing they're short staffed and refuse to hire other people to cut down costs

That was a real life instance.

Even if you're hourly, that's zero minutes spent at work waiting for the shift to start. Nobody's commute is perfect, it's better to start getting paid the minute you arrive.

Yeah, no other human can write prompts to produce code not even you know the inner workings of.

Fuck off prompt monkey

watching companies fail because they thought ai
would work is lol

no industry with half a brain thinks ai is going to replace their top workers

as to having an example of real life regret look up ford

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

this is hilarious

this whole practice is going to age like shit

the dude who made the song code monkey needs to update it

My team had smaller workload when it had triple the current staff. If they fire me, they will not meet any quota, so I can do bad work.

Me showing up late to work because I've lost my spirit and can no longer motivate myself to excelling up the career path I dreamed so hard to enter.

Jonathan Coulton! And yes he does lol

make it insulting because i’m sure as a creative just loves ai

I do not envy the people who will have to maintain that giant ball of vibe-coded shit, assuming the company still exists in the future after that mess inevitably blows up spectacularly.

If their company relies on the output of a bunch of "agentic agents" then it sounds like they're fucked regardless.

I feel you, dude. Sometimes we need to go herd sheep for a year or two. It really makes you appreciate how intelligent the idiots we have to deal with at work are.

Never underestimate the stupidity of management...

I wasn't doing anything wrong, but I worked my ass off and took on projects no one else in my company could. They let me go anyways. I found out through people remaining that they had a couple really big contracts come up after that that they really wanted to take but my old manager(who argued against letting me go) told them there was no way they could take them because I was the only one that could've handled them. Few salves are as comforting as the schadenfreude of watching your old company fail in a way you could've prevented had they not fired you. Was a literal lynch pin and they pulled me.

Yes, so same pay, less hours. As above.

No, it's an increased hourly rate but the same take home pay.

Working less is great. Coming to work few minutes late each day is not worth doing the job of multiple people.

Managing your time is one thing. Doing the job of multiple people is foolish and should get a raise. If you are mission critical, get paid for it.

If you're that mission critical, you'll get the raise and still won't have any dramas about punctuality.