Full-time Worker Pillows

"Juggling our schedules with me in school and you working full-time is just too difficult."

"Sorry, we've found an app that's better at being you than you!"

"Since being semi-retired everything I do is half-assed."

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

"This is System One and I am holding the beta for System Two."

'No no Mr. Peters, you are not being outsourced. You are being virtualised in 'the cloud'.'

"I keep telling the boss I'm working from home. I'm gonna have to actually do that one of these days."

"I'm putting myself through med school by waiting tables. I'll be back shortly to take your blood pressure."

Working from Home

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

"What the hell sort of convenient new feature is this?"

'I got a job working for Google Earth.'

'This new 'flexible working' scheme is a great idea. . . It helps us to identify staff who have a more balanced life. People who have interests outside of the office.'

"Ruddy AI. Bad enough to be replaced by a computer, never mind a COFFEE MAKER."

"If I were writing fulltime, I'd have three unpublished novels by now."

SF NO

"Are you George or his AI replacement?"

I'm only a part-time waiter, I'm really an actor.

Musk's Twitter

"Must you bring your work to bed?"

Office Bldg. Being replaced by a computer is one thing, but an app is really humiliating.

The Joads of Silicon Valley in Kiwis of Wrath

"You new guys should fit in working here."

Garden City Restaurant: 'Workaholics businessmen's lunch - 24 hours every day.'

"The new guy says he's a data wrangler."

'Ultra-high speed computer...more mistakes in less time?'

'I was downsized. My job is now being performed by my boss's smart phone.'

Robot News: best places to work

A bee staring at a computer screen image of a flower

'Your last tech job offered generous options? So do we: Take it or leave it.'

"His productivity apps pushed him to an early grave."

'You can't expect us to take you seriously when you're dressed like that.'

"They always give us minimum-wage, part-time guys the riskiest jobs."