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nuxvomica

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15. AI is often a pretext for off-shoring

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:03 PM

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When my employer was having rounds of layoffs, including mine ultimately, they were pushing AI as the reason but instead of eliminating jobs they moved them to India. Not the only company that was doing the same thing last year. I don't think AI is anywhere near is functional as we're hearing but even as just a false pretext it can do a lot of damage.

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AI is often a pretext for off-shoring nuxvomica 14 hrs ago #15

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