Oh, For Fucking Christ Sake…

Right, listen up. SK Telecom, bless their clueless hearts, launched an AI unit a few weeks ago – all hype and promises of revolutionizing… something. Now? They’re offering “voluntary” retirements to staff. Voluntary in the same way getting punched is voluntary if someone’s got fists bigger than yours. Basically, they over-hired like idiots, probably based on some bullshit marketing forecast, and now they need to trim the fat. They claim it’s about “restructuring” for efficiency. Yeah, right. It’s called admitting you screwed up, but don’t expect them to *say* that.

The severance packages are… okay, I guess. Not amazing, not terrible. Enough to maybe avoid immediate homelessness. They’re trying to spin this as a positive – “empowering” employees and all that corporate garbage. It’s just sad. A whole lot of people now scrambling because some executives couldn’t tell their ass from an algorithm.

And the kicker? This is happening *after* they spent weeks bragging about how great this AI thing was going to be. Honestly, it’s a masterclass in incompetence. Don’t even get me started on the irony of an AI unit needing to downsize so quickly. It’s almost poetic.

Source: TechCrunch

Related Anecdote (Because You People Need Context)

I once watched a sysadmin spend three days “optimizing” a server only to discover he’d disabled the network card. Three. Days. This SK Telecom thing? Same energy. Just… less subtle.

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