My Fun last year

[IMADreamer]

Sounds like it worked out in the long run but what a year.

[Fat_Bulldog]

Wow. What a rollercoaster. I think many will be experiencing similar situations within the next few years. Things are changing and leaning too far one way, things have a way of correcting themselves (hopefully).

I'm glad it worked out for you. What a mess!

[Arthur Dent]

February - Albertson's calls me - their outsourcing was a disaster - want me to come back with a nice $$$$ raise.

Another stunning success for America's egomaniac business executive class. Sounds like the new thing is, you guessed it, AI!

Love this writeup: they're "scaling AI across the enterprise" where only this bleeding edge technology can offer solutions to such intractable problems as "What kinds of donuts are we selling exactly?" and "How do we calculate required inventory when we sell stuff that we make from other stuff like sandwichs including both bread and meat?"

https://chainstoreage.com/albertsons-de ... epartments

[wart57]

February - Albertson's calls me - their outsourcing was a disaster - want me to come back with a nice $$$$ raise.

Another stunning success for America's egomaniac business executive class. Sounds like the new thing is, you guessed it, AI!

Love this writeup: they're "scaling AI across the enterprise" where only this bleeding edge technology can offer solutions to such intractable problems as "What kinds of donuts are we selling exactly?" and "How do we calculate required inventory when we sell stuff that we make from other stuff like sandwichs including both bread and meat?"

https://chainstoreage.com/albertsons-de ... epartments

The AI is only as good as the info it gets - and it gets garbage most of the time.

Any one of about 1000 parameters that are off can cause an order to be bad. A trained eye can catch these potential problems. The AI has yet to be able to do that.

[cardinalkarp]

If only they gave a [expletive] about that.

[Fat_Bulldog]

Yeah, lately anytime I bring something up or try to ask for help, I just get "have AI do it for you." Leadership doesn't quite understand that it doesn't work that way.

And, I'm expected to build a prototype enterprise wide solution/tool by myself so we can save $50k a year. Before AI, this is a project that would have taken a team of 6 devs and 2 qa or so about 12 to 18 months to iterate and develop on. Because of AI, I'm expected to document every last requirement (that method is not the best for developing a solution) and write the code with AI and expect it to work by end of April.

I'm not a developer either.

Good times!

[mikechamp]

@wart57: I only want to know one thing about your time in Alabama:







Did you learn the banjo?

[felix_sorcem29]

So,
About a year ago I was on a teams call with Albertson's - they let us all know that we would all be out of a job in a few months - they were outsourcing all the grocery buying to India. I worked through April, and then was out of a 24 year career - just like that.

I got a decent severance package so was ok for a few months. - those few months turned in to almost 7 months unemployed - until I got a job offer - in Birmingham Alabama... - I had to re-locate from Arizona to the deep south - I had lived in Alabama before - so I was not too worried about that. I decided to take the job and started the week before Halloween. The family stayed behind in Az - to finish up the school semester - and get the house up for sale.

January comes - no house sale - the difference between the schools block schedule in Az and the regular schedule in Alabama made it difficult to transfer the girls - so we decided to put them on e-campus so they could come to Alabama if they needed to. Still separated from Mrs. Wart and the girls. No movement on house. Poopy was really struggling in school. Smelly was doing ok and Rose loved it! Stinky decided not to start college - yes, Stinky was born the year GRB started, because she wasn't sure where we were going to be living.

Hating the Job in Alabama - 11 hr work days - hour long commutes, boss who only dealt in negatives - facetime with he family every night helping with homework and getting grief from Mrs. Wart - she had every right to be upset, she became a single mom almost over night. Rent in Alabama and house payment in Az killing us.

February - Albertson's calls me - their outsourcing was a disaster - want me to come back with a nice $$$$ raise. Still had to go through interviews - was offered the job in March.

I quit the Alabama job, packed my [expletive] back up and moved back to Az. Drove back - rolled in to my driveway at 6:00 am and my daughters were all waiting for me at the door.

Started back at my old job last Monday - new office - but still have the same phone number and employee ID - and sign on for my computer. Will be back to remote working in a few weeks once we get back up to speed. Still a little pissed at Albertson's for turning my life upside down the last year, but I am finally back home - just in time for 105 degree weather.

Man, Albertson’s really nuked your whole life just to crawl back later with more money glad you went home honestly, those 11 hour shifts plus being away from the kids sounds miserable as hell.