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Hey, josh here. These layoffs are wild.

Listen, 2025 isn't just another "tough year for workers." It's the year the robots actually showed up to take your job—and they're not even being subtle about it anymore.

Here's what's happening: UPS just cut 48,000 people. Salesforce? 4,000 support engineers—gone, replaced by chatbots. PwC, the definition of white-collar respectability, axed 5,600 globally. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Intel—we're talking over 100,000 jobs evaporating across just a handful of companies.

The thing is, this isn't your standard recession panic. CEOs aren't even pretending anymore. Salesforce's Marc Benioff straight-up said AI now handles "50% of tasks" in their support division. Applied Materials cited "embracing new technologies" in their layoff memo. UPS called it their "most substantial strategic transformation" ever.

Translation? We found out the machine can do your job cheaper.

Here's the kicker: it's hitting everyone. Warehouse workers at UPS. Software engineers at Microsoft. Tax accountants at PwC. Customer support at Salesforce. Even consulting giants like Accenture (11,000 cuts) are basically telling employees: learn AI or get out.

What we're watching is the compression of two labor revolutions into one brutal year. Blue-collar automation (hello, robot drivers) meeting white-collar automation (hello, GPT-4 doing your audit work) in a spectacular collision that's leaving hundreds of thousands of people scrambling.

So what does this mean?

The companies aren't lying when they say they're "restructuring for the future." They absolutely are. The future just needs way fewer humans than the present does.

And the most terrifying part? This is probably the slowest AI will ever be. These layoffs aren't endpoints—they're opening acts.

If you're in a job that involves following processes, answering questions, moving predictable objects, or analyzing structured data... yeah. Start learning how to work with the robots. Because the alternative is being replaced by them.

The race isn't coming. It's here. And the clock's ticking faster than anyone wants to admit.