I mentioned to a coworker the other day that a spreadsheet of "requirements" were sent over by someone, filled with em-dashes. He had no idea why I was so critical of the requirements, because on the surface they sounded legitimate. I pointed out that the guy who submitted them probably had no idea what half of them were, and just went with the plan submitted by AI.

"But how do you know"... my brother, it's the em-dashes. Nobody fucking used those in emails, spreadsheets, or whatever prior to AI.

It's got to be AI. I can barely parse it.

Just from the language up top and the reference to multiple orgs I assume this was in reference to the massive federal layoff last year that was presented as a voluntary retirement, but with the implicit threat that you'll probably be laid off in 6 months if you don't take it. One of the justifications from DOGE was that we were all more productive now.

humie-slop, ai-slop, slop is slop. Either you get that this non-productive bullshit is a complete dead end, or you remain open to the scam.

Also, yeah, severance packages are still a thing. My buddy just got 6 weeks when he got laid off.

As for the "And that's the floor." I assume it means "and that's just the ground level people, not counting higher ups and management"