Time to demand 3 times the original pay as a contractor, or good luck with the soulless sycophant in a box
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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Exactly. Would live on rice & beans just out of spite, rather than go back to a company that laid me off for AI, unless they 2-3x my previous pay rate.
Shame, all that tribal knowledge gone gone gone
Oh it's still there. But the price has gone up significantly. Free market economics teaches us that there's no such thing as a shortage.
Yeah but now they are using the threat of AI to suppress US salaries.
They're trying, but their gun just went "click" instead of "bang."
You've got the labels backwards. The guy on the left wasn't the asshole in this situation.
Hey leave Paul Dano out of this.