Middle managers all across WA have been using AI to help further waste their underlings time in an attempt to make it look like they are being useful. Alas, many don’t realise they are training the system to take over their jobs.
AI has now learned how to turn even the simplest, most mundane email into a meeting that makes watching the old VHS tape under your parent’s bed seem like Xmas.
We spoke to a manager at a mid tier firm who said he uses AI prompts to find creative ways of turning simple concise emails into a 45 minute productivity drain. He expanded,
“Take for example yesterday, I had to inform my staff that going forward we will be switching to Arial size 11 font in all outgoing mail after I listened to some weird alpha boss podcast about it being a power font”
We had to pause the interview to digest that before asking him to continue,
“Yeah, anyway, so you’d be thinking that could just be an email right? Well, I prompted my AI software to drag that simple bit of information into a 45 minute meeting that I called to be conducted during the lunch break. Free sandwiches!”
Other middle managers have found similar success. With one managing to turn a request to ensure timesheets are logged every day to a ripping meeting of the minds. That manager told us,
“AI even spat out a PowerPoint presentation for me. I won’t lie, I’ve never been very good at PowerPoint, may as well be magic to me so when I came armed with one helluva PowerPoint I knew my flock was inspired!”
They certainly were inspired to do something. Furthermore, it is believed that at this rate, there will be no need for middle management at all within 6 months.
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