Everything was normal until they offered to pay her less

This story’s continuity was completely normal at first. A company fires an employee (or all of them), replaces them with a bot, and then everything starts going wrong, and they come back looking to rehire the employee they initially let go. Believe it or not, this is normal nowadays.

But this story was different. This company not only had the audacity to fire a UGC content creator to replace them with an AI, literally going against what UGC means (User-Generated Content, for those who don’t know), but they also expected to pay even less for a service they found out was even more valuable than they initially thought.

Is this what business means to them? Or are they counting on their workers’ desperation? Do they think she will be willing to accept less money because she now ‘competes’ with AI? Haven’t they got enough proof that AI doesn’t work as well? Are they malicious or just dumb?

As I was scrolling through TikTok today, I noticed a bunch of posts about people going ‘offline’ or preferring any kind of service offered by humans. I even saw an ad for a new ‘smartphone’ with no social media on it, imitating early-2000s cellphone aesthetics, and only conserving the map and a few other non-social-media gadgets from the new ones.

Anyway, I think we all know this employee should state their ground and demand higher pay, or at least the same pay she had before; but I’m noticing a pattern here. Do you think this ‘offline’ tendency is going to last?