My workplace (finance company) bought out an investments company for a steal because they were having legal troubles, managed to pin it on a few individuals, then fired the individuals under scrutiny.

Our leadership thought the income and amount of assets they controlled was worth the risk.

This new group has been the biggest pain in the ass. Complete refusal to actually fold into the company culture, standards, even IT coverage. Kept trying to sidestep even basic stuff like returning old laptops after upgrades.

When I was still tech support, I had two particularly fun interactions with them. One was when it was discovered that one of their top earners got fired for shady shit, then they discovered a month later that he had set his mailbox to autoreply to every email pointing his former clients to his personal email. Then, they hired back this guy and he lasted a whole day before they caught him trying to steal as much private company info as he could grab. The other incident was when I got a call from this poor intern they hired, then dumped the responsibility for this awful home grown mess of Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word docs all linked over ODBC on this kid. Our side of IT refused to support it and kept asking them to meet with project management and our internal developers to get it brought up into this century. They refused to let us help them.

In the back half of last year, our circus of an Infosec Department finally locked down access to unapproved LLMs and AI tools. Officially we had been restricted to one specific one by written policy, signed by all employees, for over a year but it took someone getting caught by their coworker putting private info into a free public chatbot for them to enforce it.

Guess what sub-company is hundreds of thousands of dollars into a shadow IT project that has went through literally none of the proper channels to start using an explicitly disallowed LLM to process private customer data?

It reminds me of when the internet exploded in the 90s and everyone "needed" a website. Even my corner gas station had a web presence for some reason. Then with smartphones everyone needed their own app. Now with AI everyone MUST use AI everywhere! If you don't you are a fool and going to get left behind! Do you know what you actually need it for? Not really but some article you read said you could fire 50% of your staff if you do.

Self solving problem!

If they have to verify the results every time, what is the point?

have some quarterly stupid “trainings”

Feeling this in my bones, executive just sent out a plan for 'fixing' the fact that the AI tools they are paying for us to use are getting roasted for sucking, they are giving the vendor more money to provide 200 hours of mandatory training for us to take. That's more training than they have required for anything before, and using LLM tools isn't exactly a difficulty problem.