UPS lays off 12,000 managers as AI replaces jobs

[The mailman]

Got some mail here!

[FangerZero]

So when are we going to start laying off CEOs with AI and CGI? Because they probably make as much as those 12k employees put together, and that's one individual.

[A Mac]

Twelve THOUSAND managers? Makes one wonder how necessary they were in the first place.

The managers are important the CEO is doing this to increase her salary, I guess 20 million was not enough.

[David F]

Oh AI will not take people's jobs. Robots will not take people's jobs they sure as hell will. The robot will be driving in a UPS truck that is driven on auto pilot with AI. And the robot will deliver the package to the door. Bye bye drivers you are next on the chopping block. People will be outsourced by AI and robots. Then the owners and CEO will get triple pay. Bye bye world as you know it. There will be a handful of rich greedy bastards. And a world full of homeless poor hungry people.

[Swiss]

Same money fewer hours doesn't sound like a bad bargain. More time with family, more time for living.

[Gzus]

You are so misinformed it's absurd, they are laying off 12000 employees in general, not managers exclusively. Entire shifts and hubs are being shut down and union employees and supervisors alike are being laid off, and it has to do primarily with volume being absurdly low across the board.

[NikoB]

Ultimately, everyone who is competitive will find a new job, and with higher pay, at least nominally. As usual, on the one hand, I feel sorry for the old people, at pre-retirement age, but on the other, they are all adults and capable people and are obliged to control the risks of life, clearly aware of what is happening around them. Many people forget what world they exist in, turning into "snowflakes" (and now this is generally the mainstream among young passive generations) and sooner or later retribution for this loss of adequacy finds them, like animals, when they forget about the constant risks Around them.

Compassionate people call for humanity, but "humanity" has the other side of the coin, leading to a loss of life adequacy by the majority of the population, who have decided that someone will do all the work for them to control life risks. But this does not happen - the one who supposedly takes upon himself such "care" of other people's risks, over time, takes away their rights/freedoms, turning such obedient and gullible people into ordinary slaves of the system. And then, on the basis of such slaves, who have become the majority of the population, a pseudo-democracy is built, i.e. the power of the majority. But can slaves be citizens and have the right to vote? And how much is their voice worth (what's the point?) given their mentality? In this way, pseudo-states are formed, with the government in reality representing organized criminal groups and nothing more, skillfully manipulating and subordinating to their interests the majority of the stupid and cowardly population, unable to independently control all life risks and ultimately turning into a brainless herd of sheep led to slaughter. ..

[Pete20637]

It's hard to have any sympathy for UPS. When Amazon announced plans to establish their own delivery system, FedEx told them to pound sand. UPS decided to dig their own grave by handling Amazon's overflow and all of their returns. UPS will devolve into a specialty carrier with very few employees, like DHL in the US. I don't think it's really fair to blame the union contract or the union employees.

[Jim Moore]

I love USPS.   Inexpensive, efficient,  happy, well paid employees with many veterans employeed there.  What I wonder is why politicians try to.destroy such a great thing.