Quick-turn it, gut it, then tell me all about the miracles of AI

(We might need a vent flair on this sub.)

Last Friday I got hit with a “need it by Monday” writing assignment. SMEs were on travel (of course.) I hunted them down, got the data, did the writeup mostly over the weekend, kicked it upstairs. Zero response from higher. Went on to the 7 other assignments in my queue that dropped Monday morning.

Today somebody mentioned in a meeting that management’s management had feedback on it. I asked for the comments. Turns out my writeup had been substantially revised by someone not me and the feedback applied to the gutting. And the covering message from intermediate management? “Oh, you should really try out ChatGPT, its results are amazing.”

I pride myself on not bringing ego to work, but this one is hard to get over.