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CEO discovers AI costs more than humans

29 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Two executives clash over AI implementation costing more than human labor, the decision to lay off staff they now need to rehire, and competing visions for the company's future. One threatens to fire the other while referencing a viral TED Talk, exposing the gap between their public messaging and private chaos.

The AI is more expensive than humans?
Yeah, I told you that last week. We'll just hire everybody back.
No, no, no, we can't do that. I didn't necessarily lay them off in the best possible way.
It's just Raymond, but I'm sure everybody else will come back.
It's not just Raymond. I said some slightly negative things to the other employees too.
In the age of AI, I don't think that you're gonna get a job at Home Depot. You're lucky I'm firing you now.
I should have fired you months ago. Get out of my fucking meeting!
I thought we were promised AI was gonna be cheaper. No, I told you last week that that is not the case. Nobody outside of our company company knows about this, yeah, right? Okay, so—
Did you not see the TED Talk that I gave? What? It's going viral on LinkedIn right now. I told you no more TED Talks.