Boss sends menacing email forcing all employees into AI evaluation, threatens terminations: 'Anyone who cannot demonstrate meaningful progress after this exercise will be replaced'

Even if AI doesn't replace your job, it might hasten your exit in other ways.

We're all hearing about ways that advancements in AI technology might change our working lives. Maybe you're already seeing it happen. Your workplace is starting to implement it, and you're seeing the ways it's shifting how you do your job. Maybe you worry about being replaced by it, and your fears are not unfounded. If companies have ways to cut costs, they tend to do it. And that might mean your role ends up on the cutting room floor. It's a scary time, and one that we're not always prepared for. We don't have a roadmap for it, so it can go in any direction. You don't know what to expect, which can feel unmooring. But AI is coming for jobs in even more indirect ways, as evidenced by this story.

Sometimes bosses want to feel like they're doing something, but they don't have a real plan. So they push the buck onto you, and everything comes crashing down. AI tools are just another way to do that. If you're truly invested in your company and your employees, then you would probably try to work with them to improve their performance. You wouldn't blindly take the advice of a robot and assume that it has your best interests at heart. But that's what the boss in this story said he was going to do, in an email that sent a chill down the spines of all the employees.

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Received this wild email from the CEO for Al to assess my performance.

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$and I'm not satisfied that we are operating anywhere near our potential; in many cases, I'd estimate we are delivering only a fraction of what each role should produce. This is the moment to course- correct.$

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Nobody wants to be threatened. We don't respond well to it as a species. It doesn't make us feel safe, which doesn't generate the most creativity or productivity. If the threat of termination is the only thing that's keeping you showing up to work, then something is deeply wrong. If bosses have to threaten their workers to do their bidding, then there are much larger issues at play. But that's what came up here, where an employee shared the email they received from their boss that sent everything into question. Keep reading to see what happened here and see what you think.
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