What’s some shit you can do now with AI that most people don’t realize yet

[Fairy Liquid]

:funny:

Simple question: If three renters wreck vehicles back-to-back and your insurance carrier threatens to pull your fleet policy, who are you answering to?


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Simple answer

Most people use their own insurance on their CC, or buy online insurance. Out of 3 maybe 1 will use our insurance, and 9/10 chances that all vehicles won’t be a total loss.. it’ll be like a bumper smash/scrape, side swipe or chip on the windshield.

So not a single soul, that’s the damage department problem to make sure insurance pays up

Exactly so…

If a renter fucks up a vehicle and you need their credit card company or online insurer to pay up, you are at the mercy of their claim approval. If they deny the claim or stall payment, your shit sits on the lot not making you any bread while eating carrying costs, right?

Having a damage department deal with that doesn't mean you have absolute autonomy. It means your entire business model is tethered to outside financial institutions and risk management.

Just because you delegated the task does not mean you ain’t answering to someone. The insurance company gets to decide whether that car gets paid out and put back on the road, not you.

And even if they are just bumps and scrapes, when you decide to sell them off, now you gotta sell them for less than you would if they didn’t have those bumps and scrapes right? That’s more revenue being impacted downstream due to elements you’ll never be able to fully control. That’s the point I’m making.


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This doesn’t prove anything about autonomy / agency vs being an employee / owner operator.

“Being at the mercy”, as you describe, would be us being unable to operate, live, pay ourselves etc because a car is scraped or has a chipped windshield.

Which is absolutely false, there are 100s of claims pending, and our daily operations and overhead doesn’t depend on an insurance company approving a cheque. Multiple cheques get approved daily. That’s just amateur talk.

In this particular business, there are certain costs you swallow, you have safety nets for that, and to the gen pop who haven’t never operated something on such a large scale personally, it seems like the end of the world and “being” at the mercy of insurance companies.

Because it’s a rotation circle with revenue coming from every which way, it’s just part of the operating cost, and not devastating. Waiting is not being at the mercy, it’s just part of the game, especially while you’re making bank in multiple other ways.

It’s just the extremely high risk business we are in.

We don’t have to ask a random 23 yr old HR associate to go on vacation, and then come back with a pile of work.

Thats the difference here

[Big Moose]

Am I looking at people using AI to argue with each other or has that corporate/hr style of writing/speaking just become ubiquitous?


I genuinely can’t tell

[Fairy Liquid]

Am I looking at people using AI to argue with each other or has that corporate/hr style of writing/speaking just become ubiquitous?


I genuinely can’t tell

It’s called code switching, some of us are forced to communicate professionally for work, but it’s not the natural typing cadence or style

[Vulgar]

I see both points. But I prefer the version of being "fired and having a boss" I'm in now. Nothing is more important than my time at this point.

But owning a business isn't for everybody. It's just what I prefer. Do what works for you.

[Fairy Liquid]

Owning a business is definitely not for everybody.

[Aby]

Am I looking at people using AI to argue with each other or has that corporate/hr style of writing/speaking just become ubiquitous?


I genuinely can’t tell

Lmaoooo moose said why the fuck you all talk to smart and shit when you get mad


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[nohbody]

I work a government job and feel that I have a lot more freedom now then when I did lawncare ... and when I did lawncare, I wasn't even an operator. I had Foreman's and managers that ran the shit for me and I did consulting on the side in my downtime

now, I have over 1100 hours of leave that I can use when I want
I get comp hours and that builds so fast that I usually don't even have to dip into my regular leave
I set my own goals, make my own projects, and make my own schedule.

yea, I have the monthly management and budget meetings I have to attend but that isn't no big deal to me

I have a great clerk to work under and when I'm done with it all I will retire with a pension, a cool little nest egg, and my IRA's and live out the rest of my life

do I make millions a year? nope . . but my bills get covered, I have money to save, spare money to spend, I take 2-3 vacations a year and have time for all my other hobbies like fishing and shooting

I was never able to make the time I wanted when I ran my business.

all good

[nohbody]

Am I looking at people using AI to argue with each other or has that corporate/hr style of writing/speaking just become ubiquitous?


I genuinely can’t tell

hold up buddy . . . ubiquitous is a big word

don't come at us with those 4 syllable try hard words

[Fairy Liquid]

Ngl that Moose post did seem very ChatGPTish and not like his usual typing style

[Dexterity]

I prefer being a cog.