That’s like saying “We can’t do anything about hiring discrimination against people in wheelchairs because what if one wants to be a firefighter?” Employers must give reasonable accomodations, which, if provided, enable an employee to do the job. If you have a tech job and have a moral objection to computers or the internet, you won’t be able to do your job and that is not a reasonable accommodation.
All this means is that a manager can’t force you to use AI so long as you’re able to meet performance standards without it. It’s incredibly reasonable and your argument is completely disconnected from reality.
So now, employees can pick which software they have a religious exemption from? So I can say that I my religion does not permit me to use spreadsheets. Now I don’t have to use them?
I don’t care if people don’t want to use ai, but this precedent is not sustainable. One person on the team decides that their religion does not permit use of a computer. What the hell do you do? You can’t fire them for observing a religious practice (according to the ai thing) so what? They just sit there picking their nose while I have to cover all the work they aren’t doing? Work has to make accomodations? Give this person a typewriter and some carbon paper?
Maybe I have a religious exemption from thinking about anything but god.
All this does is makes work difficult for anyone else without an exemption. Now everyone gets one. Now companies just say, “fuck this, we will find new ways to fire people and bake them into law”.
That’s not how anything works.
That’s like saying “We can’t do anything about hiring discrimination against people in wheelchairs because what if one wants to be a firefighter?” Employers must give reasonable accomodations, which, if provided, enable an employee to do the job. If you have a tech job and have a moral objection to computers or the internet, you won’t be able to do your job and that is not a reasonable accommodation.
All this means is that a manager can’t force you to use AI so long as you’re able to meet performance standards without it. It’s incredibly reasonable and your argument is completely disconnected from reality.
Well now this whole thing is worse.
So now, employees can pick which software they have a religious exemption from? So I can say that I my religion does not permit me to use spreadsheets. Now I don’t have to use them?
I don’t care if people don’t want to use ai, but this precedent is not sustainable. One person on the team decides that their religion does not permit use of a computer. What the hell do you do? You can’t fire them for observing a religious practice (according to the ai thing) so what? They just sit there picking their nose while I have to cover all the work they aren’t doing? Work has to make accomodations? Give this person a typewriter and some carbon paper?
Maybe I have a religious exemption from thinking about anything but god.
All this does is makes work difficult for anyone else without an exemption. Now everyone gets one. Now companies just say, “fuck this, we will find new ways to fire people and bake them into law”.
None of this ends well.