The newly promoted supervisor is currently weighing her options here. It seems that while her bosses may be acting in full accordance with the law, she personally does not agree with the new policy. If that’s the case, she might not have any legal standing or entitlement to unemployment benefits if she got fired. She’ll have known that she upheld her own moral standards, but that’s about it.
Still, just because she might not benefit from her decision to stand her ground in a financial sense, who knows what will happen if word gets out to customers that their phone calls are being recorded for the purposes of training an AI-generative program. Sure, the company might not suffer in a legal sense, but they could very well lose in the court of public opinion.
In that case, the Virginia-based supervisor would be very happy to have distanced herself from these practices sooner rather than later. For more stories of AI workplace drama, check out this post about employees who have had to switch careers as a result of new technology.
Author: Kayitsi.com
