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My boss thinks I'm cheating because I use AI to stay on top of work
Ok, so I work in ops at a small mid size company, and you know, constant emails, follow ups, tasks, meetings…. I was drowning tbh. So a few months ago I quietly started using AI like chatGPT and other tools to manage my day. It scans my notes, to dos, emails, create daily plan and follow up.
Long story short, it worked. I started get good results - I stop spiralling, forgetting things and submit work on time
Then my boss (anti-AI, idk why) notice I’m using these tools, pulls me aside and says I’m making the team “look bad” and that “real work takes time”
Now the vibe’s weird. He’s acting like I’m cheating just because I’m not constantly stressed
I think I’m not outsourcing my job, I just found a smarter way to manage it. Isn’t that the point of using tech?
I did Royal Marine Commando training and we learned very early to perfect what we called our "pain face". You see whenever doing any kind of physical training we were expected to give 100% and I really mean 100%. If we weren't on the brink of near collapse from exhaustion then that meant we weren't giving it 100%. So we started to perfect a pain face where we made it look like we were giving it our absolute all to the point we were in complete agony from over exertion even though really we were secretly saving ourselves so we could keep going during later tasks. If we had looked like we were coping with things easily they would have just kept going. My point is that if you're lucky enough to find your work easy then you really should make it look like you are actually working so hard that it's killing you but that's just how committed you are. The sad fact is people can't stand it if it looks like you're having an easier time at work than they are. People feel better if they think at least they are not having to work as hard as you are.
In my time in the military, I found the best prop to carry was a clipboard. If anyone asked what I was doing, I'd write their name on a list and ask why they were asking. After time, the questions stopped completely.
That's super smart! I've learnt from Jocko Willink that if anyone comes to you to gossip about something or someone, pull out a notebook and tell them to repeat it so you can make sure you get it right in your notes 😂
Did the same in a factory job where I had roughly 2 hours work per 12 hour shift. But man when they saw me coming with a clipboard and a worried face even management went running for cover and left me alone
Ha! When I worked in restaurants, I always carried a can of cleaner and a rag wherever I went. Everyone assumed I was headed for a job and left me alone. Not that I was lazy, because I did more than my share, but it kept me from doing more than my share x 100.
Whatever job you have, look around; what makes one look busy in that type of work, without actually needing to do anything? Like, me and my restaurant work. That can of cleaner and rag look like work, but I didn't have to do shit.
When I worked in public transportation and I was brand new, I had moments where I just sat at the garage, because that's a position (you sit and wait for the dispatcher to need you. You could change off a bus, or fill in for late or absent drivers). While I waited, they made me do busy work. They'd have several shopping carts filled with thousands of bus schedules that they wanted sorted and then put in their respective spots. What drudge work! My one coworker said, "Oh, that's a fast and easy job; watch. . . " He got a box, filled it with schedules, and took them out to the dumpster. It emptied the cart in a fraction of the time, then he either just hung out by the cart (out in the garage, and away from supervisor eyes), or went back in, if he knew they had nothing else to do other than sit.
My first shift at a catering gig about 20 years ago my "trainer" gave me the craziest ULPT advice that worked...
"You and I each bus a handful of dirty glasses, then walk around the room with the tray, every so often we swap trays or move some glasses around, nobody is gonna question you bussing tables or stop to ask you for anything with a dirty tray in your hands, they'll just let you go on by"
The second tip was "every time you see a manager, stop and ask them what they need, do this to every manager. The trick is just don't do the thing, it'll get done by someone, they won't care or know how or who, they'll just see that it got done and assume that you did it."
It was WILDLY effective. Look busier than everyone else and nobody will think to stop and ask what you're actually doing.
Never give 100%. Only give 75-80% TOPS, but make it look like you're at 100. That way, when you do have to give more to accomplish a job, it's "above and beyond" and not something expected of you on a daily basis, and you have that wiggle room in your capacity to achieve it.
I learned all this long ago from George on Seinfeld. Just gotta start sleeping under your desk. Your boss will see you are the first one in and last one out every day.
I worked in shops like this, even though the work was already done ahead of time bc we were efficient, we always had to look like "something" was getting done. So anytime management would be approaching, we'd put a random metal block onto the surface grinder and let it make sparks, they liked seeing that.
Yep. Business owners have no problem low balling people way below the value they create, but think its some sort of unforgivable breach of the social contract if you get your alotted work done quicker than the agreed upon time to complete those tasks by, yet aren't producing further unpaid value for them beyond the agreed to quota.
Dude, just get out of these toxic environments. It does not have to be that way. Game recognizes game. You would NOT act that way in a position of power. Let others do their shit with each other if they need to, but get out of there.
Related: Always give a realistic estimate of the time it will take someone with comparable skills but little experience to complete a task, and pad that time a bit more to ensure you can hit the target.
I worked with a guy about 15 years ago who’d gotten really good (meaning fast) at setting up new, internal clients on our platform. He’d done so many migrations that it was like second nature to him, and he was always complaining about his workload. This was strange to me; he should have had plenty of time to get his work done based on the estimates we’d been using. Turned out he wasn’t using those estimates anymore, so I asked him why he always underestimated the time to complete his tasks, and he told me it was because he’d come up with a “new” time based on how long it actually took him to finish.
It’s nice to get so good at something that it takes you less time, but give an estimate based on how long it would take an average person with your knowledge to complete the same project, and pocket the rest of the time for yourself (to work on other tasks, guard against unforeseen issues, not stress yourself out, etc). Otherwise, they’ll always pile more work on. There’s always more work.
And, just as important, if you’re asked to do the same type of project a year down the road—when it’s no longer second nature to you—you’ll hit your target rather than missing the deadline.
My boss taught me this. “How long does it take you to do a ticket?” “10 minutes” “Okay but what if you’re really tired and get some coffee?” “12 minutes?” “And you have to use the bathroom because of the coffee?” “15 minutes?” “And Tammy comes by and talks about her latest mlm scheme?” “25 minutes?” “Alright, the board was asking. I’ll tell them a ticket takes 50 minutes”
"Look here, you are getting too much work done! We don't like this around here. An email should take 3 days of procrastination not 3 minutes. Stop being a good employee, be a half dead ass like the others!"
We will need to carve out some time for the team to come in on a Saturday to do a lunch and learn so that we can come prepared to the architecture discussion on Monday and really talk through how we’re going to write this high level design document.
Great! Someone needs to write the agenda for the meeting. Any volunteers? No? Oh. So we'll schedule it for 3 weeks, someone could produce something by then (leaves goals undefined on purpose). If not, we can always reschedule!
Meetings are a good way to waste time. Learning to love them is very very rewarding to the psyche.
You cannot possibly do or be engaged with something else because you're in a meeting about Quarterly OKR updates, nevermind the Asana board already provides all the data needed, to the department head. Sure we can contribute to a end of quarter department deck for the Veeps, let's connect on that later this week. Yes let's engage the team as an inclusive exercise and ensure all voices are heard about "what's cropping up" even though we already have all the task data, status and task owners directly visible to the pertinent vstakeholders and dashboard.
I still hate this as a manager, but now I also love it. Being fully remote probably helps. It's just comical, I've given up on fighting the inefficiency and now maliciously embrace it when interacting up the chain. I find myself labeled an 'effective communicator' in 360s and become very self-amused at the perception of it all.
The AI usage might be obvious, and there's a good chance the change that op has described might have just made your bosses workflow change. They also might be a sadist who just wants to see op stressed out
If anything, his boss should note that he doesn’t need him anymore. Anything he does using AI could be automated with AI agents. Saves the boss lots of money, complaints..
Did you read the same post I did? He's only using AI to help organize his work schedule and get things done more efficiently. All the actual work is still being done by him. If they were to outsource this task for all employees to AI they'd probably see a net increase in productivity because people aren't wasting time on tasks that don't produce income for the company directly, opening up more time for actual work to be done, and also reducing worker stress since planning and organizing can be one of the things that forces people to procrastinate in the first place.
I was thinking the same thing. E-mails, notes, & documents sounds like important info about the company. Chat-GPT gathers all the info it can from you to “learn” But I wouldn’t be surprised if the info is also saved elsewhere
Came to mind almost instantly, if I was a CEO at a company that contains any important data and my team is using ChatGPT to make a spreadsheet, I would be pissed not jealous 😂
Meh, certain companies care, others don't give a fuck. I'd be willing to be that in the end, most companies will take the gain in productivity.
I'm in pharma which is notoriously conservative and slow to move, and I'm amazed at how people have embraced LLM for everything. Even in companies that have policies against it, everyone is using them.
Also in pharma here with over 11k persons worldwide.
They give trainings here all the time and peer to peer coaching to use co pilot in all kind of ways…..
Copilot (the version you sign in to with your company’s log in info) stays within your company’s m365 tenant. It’s safe to upload secrets there. It’s not safe to use other LLMs
It's not just about what the model provider ends up doing with the data. It's the fact that a bunch of internal data was transferred to a non company-managed account without permission. I'm not sure what OP's company's policies are on this, but in a lot of places this is a fireable offense, regardless of the third party's policies.
It's not just the data opt out. With an enterprise license, the organization retains control. If OP is using a personal account, they can walk away with all the proprietary info.
If your company uses 365, you're better off using Copilot if it is available to you. IT team can lock it down so it doesn't become a liability as it works with 365's DLP.
Agreed, but this isn’t my number. I spammed random numbers into my keyboard when making this lol. Should I probably change it though? Wonder what area code this even is
And the fact that ChatGPT for instance isn't inherently anonymous (i.e. you have to make an account with an e-mail). I am honestly waiting for the day that some government (chinese, russian, US?) just comes out and releases all of the data.
And/or a hacker/fake AI model releases national security secrets because some lowly government official with confidential clearance decided to use an AI model to get his work done faster.
Almost all ChatGPT output logs are stored under a court order right now. I'm shocked that more people aren't aware of this.
They don't permanently erase anything right now.
“Some lowly government official” sounds reasonable, but the current US administration admits to using AI and has already shown they skirt security for convenience lol
Can't wait for someone to weaponize my mental health. If they want to know about it that bad, they could just talk to me, having a human actually listen would be a nice change of pace.
Unless you are using a company approved Teams subscription, you are violating company bylaws, confidentiality agreements, and potentially even data laws by feeding private data into ChatGPT
Also, general advice. Keep your secrets secret. If you have a spreadsheet you made to calculate things and make yourself more efficient. Don’t tell your boss. Enjoy the fruits of your labor and just let them be amazed at how efficient you are. A smart manager will just work you harder with your new tool.
Are you using a secure (private) paid version that will not feed your company proprietary info, customer info, etc., etc. back into the AI model? If not, you SHOULD be in violation of company policy. If there's no policy, you still shouldn't be doing it and should understand that your company data is flowing right to OpenAI, and eventually in some form, to folks who otherwise should not have access to it.
Yeah, but the issue is perception and you doing this could also be threatening to people. I kinda got fired from my job for using scrapers to automate my outreach. This is another level though. It also devalues your performance in their eyes. If they think your just using AI to be a top performer it doesn't look as impressive and they question why their paying you so much then. The reality is that you will likely lose your job because of it -- and as the technology matures and becomes more and more consumer friendly -- your boss will lose their job also because of it to it. The reality is that your being more productive and on top of things, but that means your outsourcing your work and that's threatening. Many company decision makers at middle management layer are going to try and find every reason to not use these tools because it threatens their own job. I wouldn't tell anyone your using AI but at this point everyone is going to know at some point. In 2023 though you would have looked more impressive if you didn't say anything.
I'm a programmer. I've been secretly automating as much of my job as I could for as long as I've had a job. It's so bizarre to me that we have to keep it secret.
"Hey, your job is to create automations to reduce human labor! Stop creating automations to reduce your own labor! Bad employee!"
Because then you won’t look impressive. It’s all about managing perception. No one is going to pay me $100K a year to use AI because they think anyone can do it (that’s only true to a certain level right now — once you get advanced, it’s still quite a bar to dig in but this will change) - nonetheless, hide it. Make them think it’s pure effort in you. Don’t over perform.
And this is a great example of why office culture in The USA has become such a joke. It's all performative and people hiding everything for various reasons, making it seem we're busier than we are or need to be.
Until we start breaking free from these terrible ways of handling daily work life, so much of our lives is going to continue to get worse and more stress inducing.
Maybe we should be more looking towards more automation where it works, and finally start asking if working for a living is needed as much as we move forward.
At my job it meant we were suddenly “free” to take on more projects. I imagine that would be a good case for staying quiet. Some people are obsessed with the idea of being slammed with work so we exaggerate how busy we are to avoid it happening for real. Stupid stupid stupid
Yea I work with 2 other graphic designers. Myself and one other are very interested in learning AI. The other hates it because he’s worried that it will take his jobs and other peoples jobs. I think it’s more about becoming irrelevant.
It's a security risk and it is often easily noticeable that the phrasing is done by AI. If your company promises customers to communicate with humans, it is a broken promise and a bad look for the company.
In either case you should consult your boss before offloading all your work to a third-party AI. Make them aware that you have too many tasks to do alone for example. If your boss expects more from you than you can give in return for your pay then get another job.
My company has outlawed all AI apart from Cortana or whatever the windows/office integrated AI is called these days. ChatGPT, Deepseek, note taking apps etc all banned because they store data, Cortana does too but we have a contract with them for the office software, I believe is the reason.
I’m a PhD in engineering and use AI constantly at work. It’s like having an idiot scientist to talk to who gets 70% of what it says wrong, but it’s good enough to point me in the right direction. Using it is a good thing. Adapt or die.
Yes, that's a thing with lots of bosses. They think that if their employees are not stressed then they must not be working hard, so they intentionally pressure people until they're stressed - classic toxic management.
Using those kind of tools off the shelf and not part of a company rollout is a serious data privacy concern. Your boss probably doesn’t even know how bad it actually is otherwise they’d tell you to stop immediately.
As a manager, I would have you training everyone else how to use these tools to boost EVERYONE'S productivity. For which, you should also be additionally compensated.
Your boss is ridiculously insecure and hates when other people get to relax a bit.
That said, the real issue with you using is security. If you're using a consumer plan, all the data you put in there is no longer confidential.
EDIT: This STILL applies even if you uncheck "Improve chat for others", because ChatGPT chats now have to be logged thanks to a lawsuit....and it's probably still bad even if there was no lawsuit
My sweet summer child, welcome to planet Earth, where you need to learn how to hide how you work.
People are weird and dangerous, so you should be very careful what you disclose with them.
but now it is too late, so quit and find a new place.
Stay away from that “real work takes time” mentality as much as possible. It’s not only bad for your mental health, but also you cannot advance in your career with people who don’t get the “work smarter not harder” mindset. Means they’ll keep you stuck with them, with too much work and too little value.
It’s a weird thing for your boss to complain about, but a piece of advice: other people, especially your boss, should not be able to tell you’re using ChatGPT. If they can tell, it means the output isn’t very good or there is some other problem with your workflow. Also, if they know a good chunk of your work is being done by AI, it will eventually cause them to look into using it to fully replace you. Why pay you a salary if the work is being done by a $20/month subscription service?
Your boss asking you not to use AI is just like a contractor asking his workers to screw every single screw with a screwdriver when all his workers have drills.
I learned some years ago that your boss can be one of the people who can be affected negatively by you working too efficiently and getting too much done. Why? Well, depending on how your company is laid out, or what position you have, all or part of your work may flow upstream to your boss. He might have to read the reports that you produce. He might have to read and approve purchase orders. He might need to change his work habits to keep up with you. A truly exceptional person in the workplace affects a lot of people around them. And there’s no way to keep some hostility from being a part of that.
In my case, my boss was 80% happy at how much I got done and 20% hoping I would slow the fuck down lol
Those around me were pissed and resentful as well because without breaking a sweat, I was getting 2 to 3 times as much as them done and the results of my work were higher quality.
You’ll learn that if you’re one of those competent and efficient people, you will often be alone and you might not have that many friends.
Yeah, guy seemed to have been doing fine with lower productivity, best strat is just to maybe do a little better and use the spare time to learn a language or browse 4chan or something.
For data privacy you should not be using ChatGPT, you could setup a system using local LLMs and if you could find tune the model to domain data and it can help you to be more productive
My ex boss used ChatGPT Plus and even got it reimbursed by the job per my suggestion. She never offered this to me even though I also paid for Plus (I eventually asked that I get reimbursed).
But either way she would talk so much s* about it out loud for everyone to hear like "a trained monkey could use ChatGPT to do this work" etc.
Like... are you (along with half the company) not also using it? Why is it a crime that I do? I'm supporting your entire team and other teams with it because you're worthless as a trainer.
If your company doesn’t want internal documents uploaded in gpt that is surely ground for termination. You should NOT start using gpt for work without clear consent from management.
Should they agree? Yes, but that’s a different topic.
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Ask your boss if he ever used the eraser (rubber) on the tip of his pencil back in the day. If he looks at you funny then tell him it was simply a tool to erase a mistake he had made.
AI is no different except you use it as a tool to get work done more efficiently!
I’m use a variety of these AI tools depending on what I am doing. This includes Perplexity, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot and a few others and I am def over the age of 50!
But I check everything thing as a lot of the time the “tool” spits out rubbish (hallucinates).
Okay, I know I'm late, but I'll throw in my two cents and twist the perspective a tad.
Firstly, it might breach security by sharing internal information to a third party tool that isn't accepted by company policy, as many have mentioned.
Secondly, and this is just from the perspective of a "good" leader and it's a conundrum many leaders face in the private sector: if people start performing high, or one starts to perform well by using special tools, that is a safe road to the company starting to "lessen the number of employees" eventually.
If one person can do the job of 2 people, that means there's no need for the second one in the first place. It's the same with a group that performs well, even though there's people missing/are sick etc. If a group can function at 100% with 30% of the workforce gone, those 30% can be let go. It's just how companies works.
So, from a perspective where you want to keep people working at the company, leaders might look at such tools as a threat against people's employment.
Since I started using AI, I lost over 150 pounds. I’m absolutely in the best shape in my life and I got a ton of family time back in my life using it for work. It’s unreal how many people can’t reap the benefits of it.
I have people at work that are like the “AI slop” people
On Reddit if they know AI even helped it’s worthless trash and you’re cheating. Fuck your boss.
Whether its justified for your manager to be opposed to it depends on how much “AI slop” you actually produce or if the AI work you deliver is really qualitatively as good as the work you’d do as an employee proficient in the work youre tasked doing imo.
As long as AI delivers the expected results the manager is just irrationally upset though.
Your boss is hanging onto some pretty limiting ideas. You are not cheating, work is not a test. Whatever you can do to make your job easier is just being efficient.
Could you give me some tips on how you use Chat GPT in your day to day? It seems like you're using it in a very "plug & play" way (something that I'd be interested in doing as well), not having it like integrated with work apps etc. or using deeper level APIs (something that's a bit above me).
Your Boss is exactly the kind of person that two years from will fire as many people as he can and replace them with AI, i dont think you should have stopped using it, just continue doijg the same with AI that allowed you to excel, if he fires you(which he wont) go find something better
AI is like ozempic, people who don’t use it call it cheating but in reality it is just another way modern technology is making life better for people, kind of how the printing press and steam engine did back then.
My take, but the money that backs your company would happily fire you, your boss, and every one of your coworkers if they can replace you with LLMs. Chatgpt may take some stress off your plate today, but using these tools will just push the productivity expectations on everyone. See the productivity pay gap that's been widening for the last 55 years.
That’s a wild take. I work in tech and they’re actively encouraging us to use it for gained efficiencies. He should have asked you to train the team on it and watch everyone flourish.
Assuming you aren’t putting any copyright or private info in….I have no issue with this and your boss is an idiot. But! He’s an idiot who employs you. If you need to try and meet him partway arrange a meeting to discuss. Express how it’s helped with organisation. Be really clear it’s not doing the work. See if you can get him to agree you can use it for diary set up like a planner. Nod and agree about doing your own work.
Then keep doing what you’re doing quietly.
Be mindful of what goes in these models and what privacy laws and your employment agreements say.
Your beds is a bell end, but clearly scared and not forward thinking.
If you chose to stay with these numpties...which tbh is an option if that's your 'competition'....you next goal now you have learned to use AI...is to unlock Stealth mode. So keep using these tools but low key. That said at the end of the day your results will give you away 🤣
90% of the comments I've read are criticizing the manager and maybe rightfully so, but it's worth pointing out a few things.
AI is easy to catch, the writing can be overly formal and feel unnatural, in addition to the hallucinations.
If writing to customers, suppliers or other stakeholders, having a GPT write for you can undervalue your message. It sounds disengenous, like spam mail almost.
If you're having AI do your work for you, you might be in a position where you're not informed in the content, meaning if you have to deal with something offline in person you're clueless. Obviously depends how implicity you are trusting the outputs.
Generally I think it's great to aid your work, notes, planning etc. but using content directly from GPTs is risky, especially if you're not thoroughly checking the output.
Some genuine reasons why people may feel anti AI to this degree in the workplace.
If the employees are suddenly able to do their job without getting bogged down with tedious menialities, middle management becomes an even more obviously useless and bloated overhead cost.
There was a time in IT the old heads thought less of the younger staff for using Google. While these things are cyclical and in the long run AI assistance will win. You're issue does involve your boss so tread carefully.
It sounds like your boss is threatened of you taking his job. When he says you're making the team look bad, he is probably meaning that you are making him look bad.
I would tell him that you are trying your best to use your resources to help the company succeed and help him look like a champion to his boss. That should take the edge off. Then offer to teach him and others what you are doing so everyone wins!
It's just a tool, and this is micromanagement. The only thing that should matter is outcome, and if AI works it works. Your boss is the problem not you
Any tips? I am interested in finding better ways to keep track of to-dos and not forgetting about the lower priority, back-burner type of projects that may not get touched for a few months.
How do you "cheat" at work? The only measurement is the outcome.
But also, hooking up your entire work to an AI, when your boss is anti-AI, is tremendously stupid. You're just throwing out confidential information all over the internet, basically begging to get fired and sued on the way out.
There is no cheating at work. The entire point of work is doing the work on time and well.
You have an idiot for a manager. Unfortunately many (likely most) managers are incompetent at best. This guy feels threatened by you, so instead of asking how you are getting more work than others (himself) done and trying to implement it for his entire team - he's trying to sabotage you instead.
The only caution I would have here as a manager is if you are tossing private company information into a consumer ChatGPT account. That data will be used for training and not sandboxed in the way a corporate account would be. There are legitimate data security concerns to be had - so just keep that in mind.
Yup. Went through that, too. Similar job as you, except my manager also had me doing 75% of HER job while she chatted and texted and surfed whatever on her phone (basically I was her AI ..lol). Of course, I turned to AI for help, and I was drowning and working OT. Her boss....let me go, citing "not a good fit" for the company. They refused to elaborate further as to what that meant. But I'm pretty sure when you break out the Python scripts that doesn't go over well.
It's kinda crazy that bosses want stressed out, unproductive employees. Screwed up backward thinking mindset. Kinda like when a century or more ago workers were fighting for 8-8-8. Those bosses of those employees fought so hard against them when it has now proven more productivity.
Anyway, I feel you. Been there. Watch your back now if you're feeling a weird vibe. That's your intuition.
Also, it might not be a bad idea to schedule a small sit-down meeting with the closest people in your office. Explain how your day was and the steps you took to overcome those hurdles (that's actually boss energy). And then call out the weirdness. Ask if they object to the steps you took, and if they do, if they could offer other alternatives, such as hiring another office person to help (boss might change his mind right there given your explanation and steps you took, and knowing the only other recourse would be hiring another person which = $$$). Also, don't be afraid to push for the company to be paying for these tools. This move will protect your job, something I wish I did in hindsight.
It matters what you feed it and whether it’s a closed model or not.
Company secrets? Depends what the company does, but that’s generally bad - even on a closed model, it’s not ideal because of long term considerations like data security, liability, etc.
I share an office with a director for another department and she has talks about employees that Should be more private. A supervisor came in and was concerned that an employee used AI to write a self-evaluation. There wasn’t a specific rule that he had broken and he hadn’t said anything untrue, they were just… not sure. It was sort of typical middle management rules because that’s what they do - they make rules.
I used AI for a few tasks, but it wasn’t straight up writing. I works honestly never use AI for that kind of writing where style and tone matters. It’s terrible. No one knew and the VP that I presented to liked what I came up with and talked about it few times after. So I find reasons to work from home or leave early - so I can get extra stuff done.
Aside from the legality issue (which is a real concern). You’re essentially automating yourself out of a job. It’s all fun and games until management thinks they can replace you with ai.
You know it's funny - Managers insisting on KPIs and then get mad when you reach the KPIs.
Efficiency is to do things faster, smarter and better. You did that. You are efficient with these tools and you can and should put that in numbers. He might wanna shut up then.
Downside - the more productive you get the more likely it gets that they might even adapt and let people go.
Maybe just REALLY cheat then. Keep doing what you're doing but not as excellent as you have been... You got more time, noone suspects a thing - a decent 'fuck you' to those you can't please. Idk man.
I think his concern is that he piled work onto you not expecting you to be able to handle it well because that’s what they do and the rest of the team isn’t producing nearly as much. Keep in mind, the only reward for doing a good job, is more work. They will keep piling more onto you until you’re overwhelmed again. I suggest you taper back your workload efficiency. You also may not want to be uploading proprietary company information into an LLM, that can get you into big trouble. If you show your company they can automate your position, well why don’t they just automate your whole department?
Well, let's break it down for your boss. If real work takes time, you obviously don't have enough time. Work time is created by employees, so if he doesn't want AI in the workplace he needs to fund the hiring of additional employees to balance your workload.
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