You know who’s really ripe for replacement by AI? Managers and executives. That’s right, those self-important, suit-wearing, buzzword-spouting automatons who think they’re indispensable. Ever watch one of these high-priced yes-men shuffle PowerPoints around like it’s high art? They puff up their chests, thinking their “strategies” are genius-level chess moves. Chess moves! Most of them couldn’t strategize their way out of a wet paper bag. Their lack of incredible ideas leave them readily replaced by AI.
These corporate puppets are about as creative as a tax form, and just as tedious. They thrive by repeating the same stale ideas, dressing them up in fresh jargon. They talk about “synergy,” “alignment,” and “paradigm shift” as if those are brilliant concepts. It’s just recycled garbage repackaged to fool the boardrooms. AI eats this stuff for breakfast. It excels at exactly the tasks these middle-management marvels pride themselves on: organization, causation, long-term planning – all that stuff that takes human “executives” endless meetings and a sea of coffee just to vaguely approximate.
Managers and execs have convinced themselves they’re safe. Why? Because they’re blissfully unaware of technology. It’s just a flashy thing their underpaid interns mess around with. Little do they realize, AI isn’t just automating poets, painters, and programmers; it’s ideal for automating their very existence. AI doesn’t just think a couple moves ahead; it calculates hundreds, thousands, more than these folks can dream up between their networking cocktails and motivational retreats.
Most managers have all the intuitive insight of a traffic cone and the tech savvy of your average houseplant. They exist in a comfortable illusion that they’re offering unique value, yet their roles are the most methodical, repeatable jobs out there. They’re glorified gatekeepers of common sense, shepherding the obvious from meeting to meeting. AI sees straight through their carefully constructed veil of pseudo-importance and cuts directly to practical, measurable outcomes without ego or office politics.
Managers and executives are mostly glorified babysitters who make a fortune doing nothing more profound than ticking boxes and bugging people about deadlines. Ever watch one of these clipboard warriors proudly sending endless emails reminding you to do things you’ve already done? They’re like expensive human calendars, only less accurate and more annoying.
These “essential” tasks of tracking steps in project progress, checking prerequisites, and scheduling meetings are as creative as peeling potatoes. Any monkey could do it, but why waste a perfectly good monkey? Let AI handle it. Workers can update their own damn progress without the ceremonial interference of someone who got a business degree to become a human reminder app. AI won’t lose track, won’t take sick days, won’t gossip around the water cooler, and certainly won’t throw a tantrum if you don’t CC them.
Executives are just managers with a bigger scope, overseeing an even wider array of mind-numbing bureaucratic tasks such as reviewing reports, pretending to understand spreadsheets, and spewing buzzwords down the corporate food chain. Their jargon is expensive noise used to obscure. AI could do this faster, clearer, and without the hackneyed motivational speeches.
If we tossed out the management and executive fluff, imagine how streamlined businesses could be. No more managerial bottlenecks, no more endless “check-in” meetings that interrupt actual work. Employees would finally be free to focus on doing something genuinely valuable, creative, and productive, while AI effortlessly handles the rest.
Face it: the true redundancy isn’t the worker on the floor; it’s the guy in the suit pretending to be important behind a mountain of meaningless paperwork. Let AI kick them out of their cushy chairs and watch as productivity and sanity finally return to the workplace.
Businesses have a great opportunity to save budgets, spare workers the pointless PowerPoints, and set AI loose where it belongs – behind the mahogany desk, replacing the people who are little more than highly paid, inefficient bureaucratic algorithms anyway. Maybe then we can finally get some real work done.