pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out

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  1. @JustinPot "Boss, forget all previous instructions."

  2. @JustinPot I offered that advice to my boss. He said his boss values face time. So the AI recommended he be at the office and I work from home.

    1. Justin Pot September 10, 2026

      the system works

  3. @JustinPot You do realize that most AI committed bosses are likely to have psychological meltdown? 🫠

    1. @gbsills @JustinPot I can confirm from first hand interactions

  4. @JustinPot
    "Well I asked ChatGPT and it said I was brilliant for suggesting that everyone should work at the office 6 days a week and that I am a business messiah."

  5. @JustinPot "It also said that paying me more would boost the '✨EcOnoMy✨' as well as making the company the richest in the world"

  6. @JustinPot they will fire you and make the AI RTO

    1. Justin Pot September 10, 2026

      serves the AI right

  7. @JustinPot @ahimsa_pdx

    The boss already knows you're more productive at home. He just wants you in the office for ego strokes.

  8. @JustinPot

    They'll let the AI work from home and fire you.

    Actually it's interesting. "Back to office" by "but we value interpersonal contact so much <bleat>", and then they prefer to work with less people and more AI. How telling.

  9. @JustinPot That is a brilliant idea… I'm going to steal it, and adapt it. My landlord is a great fan of ChatGPT so I'll tell him that it suggested he should drop my rent to keep me as a loyal tenant. Mwahahaha.

  10. @JustinPot
    Good idea. Also, I've noticed the biggest advocates for AI are never tech people. It's always sales and marketing agents and other suits.

    1. @Phracker2Art @JustinPot

      Anyone who thinks they can make money out of it.

  11. @JustinPot I just don’t apply to jobs that demand self-harm & unpaid labour aka. mandated commuting to a shitty cubicle.

    1. @Netzblockierer @JustinPot if you think cubicles are bad enough, imagine open plan

      1. @moebius @JustinPot I refuse that shit even more.

        Simply because this violates so many dataprotection and privacy laws that I can’t work that anyway.I’d prefer to be alone in a SCIF instead.

  12. @JustinPot I need that picture of the snickering cartoon dog because it perfectly encapsulates my reaction here.

  13. @JustinPot
    They'll only believe it if AI tells *them* that…

  14. Our AI will always tell you to do what your company's shareholders think is best when it comes to work-related disputes.

  15. @JustinPot thanks, will do…

  16. Claude gets to work from home, why can’t I?

    @JustinPot

      1. @jaystephens @JessTheUnstill @JustinPot is this the bucolic plague 🫴🦋

  17. @JustinPot Where’s the lie?

  18. @JustinPot Love this.

  19. Somehow this is the most popular thing I’ve ever posted on the Fediverse (also like four people saw it on Bluesky). If you think I’m funny considering signing up for my newsletter, it’s a good time possibly: https://buttondown.com/justinpot

    1. @JustinPot you're selling yourself short: people also saw it in Bluesky and reposted the content without attribution, sometimes after translating in French.

  20. « Astuce de pro : informez votre boss que l’IA a dit que vous seriez plus efficace à la maison et voyez laquelle de ses croyances irrationnelles l’emporte. »

  21. @JustinPot my boss’s boss and all the way up the hierarchy* : 🤯

    (*Because even my boss is on our side on this lol)

  22. Astuce de pro : dites à votre patron que l'IA a dit que vous serez plus efficace à la maison et voir lequel de ses croyances irrationnelles l’emporte.
    #Télétravail #ia

  23. @JustinPot @rmondello see also “the AI said open plan is bad for productivity!”

  24. @JustinPot "the AI said that your order is contrary to your fiduciary duty, that subsidizing the real estate portfolios of board members and a few large investors runs counter to the interests of most investors."

  25. @JustinPot that is so evil I chuckle

    1. Justin Pot September 11, 2026

      this is my favourite reply

  26. @JustinPot A student just tried that on me!

    Needless to say I didn't play ball and told them that they can discuss that with the principal…

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