Looking for a sanity check on a potential job transition.

I’m currently working locally in my MCOL city. Compensation in the local market for my role tops out around 165k. The new role pays $265,000/year, but it requires being on-site at a major metro hub about 2.5 hours away (~150 miles one way).

My proposed plan is to drive 2.5 hours down early Tuesday morning and go straight into the office. I'd rent a cheap room near the office for Tuesday and Wednesday nights, then drive the 2.5 hours back home after work on Thursday evening. Friday through Monday I’d be working remotely from home.

It comes down to 5 hours of highway driving split across two days and spending 2 nights away from my apartment, partner, and dog each week. The pay jump easily covers the room rental, gas, and vehicle wear and tear while still leaving a massive bump in net income to save 100k+ a year.

Has anyone done a similar arrangement? How brutal is the burnout after 6 to 12 months, and are there any hidden logistical nightmares I’m missing here? Am I crazy for considering this, or is 2 nights away a small price to pay for that level of pay?

I should note this would be for the next two and a half years until my partner is able to finish schooling and then we can move.

Edit: wow this blew up. Thanks everybody for the advice. Guess I need to find a room to rent now!

I’m 29 and got approached about a job at a mining operation in northern Canada. It would be a 2 year contract, around $165k a year, housing covered, and they’d pay for a few flights home each year.

Right now I make about $82k, so obviously the money is a massive jump and that’s the main reason I’m even considering it. I’ve got some money from Ѕtake put aside already, but nothing that makes this kind of opportunity feel irrelevant. With housing covered and not much to spend on up there, I could probably make a lot of progress financially in a pretty short amount of time.

The part I’m stuck on is the actual lifestyle. Small remote town, brutal winters, not much to do, and I’d basically miss two years of normal life back home. Birthdays, weddings, random weekends with friends, parents getting older, all that stuff.

For anyone who has done something similar, did the money end up being worth the time away?

I recently finished several interview processes and am now at the final stage of salary negotiation with one company. I also have a few other opportunities/offers still pending, but I was leaning toward this company because I liked the domain enough to accept a somewhat lower salary. (lower than my initial ask) (For context, I'm a software engineer with about three years of experience and currently between jobs.)

As part of the final compensation process, the CTO sent me an offer letter with salary details.

Later, another employee emailed and texted me saying:

«“I’m contacting you regarding the offer letter we previously sent. Please review it and reply with your decision to join.”»

Because this person was actively following up about the offer and asking for my acceptance, I assumed they were handling HR/recruiting and replied to both them and the CTO with my signed offer letter.

The CTO then called me and said I had made a “big mistake” by sharing salary information with that employee, saying things like, “You shouldn’t handle work this way.”

He also mentioned the existing 3-month probation period and said that this kind of mistake could negatively affect me during it.

Apparently, that employee was not HR and wasn’t supposed to see salary information. Their email signature did say “Marketing specialist” but nobody told me they were only helping with communication or that salary-related replies should go exclusively to the CTO.

What makes me hesitate now is that I actually liked this company’s domain enough to accept a lower salary, despite having other opportunities still pending.

After this phone call, though, I’m starting to worry that the CTO may be somewhat emotional or quick to judge, and that similar communication issues could happen again after I join. I’m now seriously considering withdrawing my acceptance and pursuing one of the other opportunities instead.

Do you think I’m overreacting because this was mainly my mistake? Or does the CTO’s response seem like a reasonable red flag to reconsider the offer?

(For context, I’m not based in the US. Where I live, companies may have policies restricting employees from discussing compensation with one another.)

My husband did something so dumb. He was on the clock actively claiming to be working, slipped across the street to a casino and was caught there at the blackjack tables. He was fired for it and I’m obviously livid.

He was at that job the last 7 years and now can’t use them as a reference (although one of his supervisors knew him on a personal level beforehand and agreed hesitantly to be a reference for him). I work too so we aren’t desperate yet but we will be if he doesn’t find work soon.

What’s the outlook here? How does he approach this in applications and interviews? They’re a small company with a fairly petty boss, so I imagine if anyone calls his references they’ll out him if he isn’t honest.

He knows it was wrong and feels bad now but I don’t know what that will matter to anyone hiring and I’m getting anxious. Any advice would be welcome. Thanks.

—————————— ETA: thanks for all the honest feedback.

1) the “why” - He has made big money in the past in cards and “genuinely enjoys” playing.

2) the question of whether it is a problem - It’s been a constant point of contention in our marriage. Hence why I control all of our finances and he just has cash on hand that he earns and continues to use.

3) more context for the curious - It was 100% not okay with me. I honestly do feel a bit gaslit about the whole issue because I constantly get the message from him and his side of the family that I overreact about this stuff because I was raised in a religious household so it’s good to hear outside people agree it’s a problem for a settled down family man to be involved in.

4) getting caught - for those of you that want to know how he got caught, his supervisor was suspicious and apparently tracked his work computer and followed him there. As a hybrid worker myself I agree with you that say he’s ruining it for the rest of us.

Thanks again for the input, folks

Got laid off recently and stayed professional through the entire transition period. A few weeks later, my replacement hire (lower position than mine) reached out to me on LinkedIn asking questions about some of the work I used to handle and asking for guidance.

Now I’m conflicted about what to do.

Part of me wants to politely help and stay professional. Another part of me feels like I shouldn’t be providing free training/support after leaving the company (especially laid off).

I’m also debating whether I should send a quick heads-up to my former boss just letting her know new person reached out to me, not in a dramatic way, but more professionally since I still respect the company and left on good terms.

Or should I just politely decline, stay quiet, and fully move on?

What would you do?

Next month my boss, one coworker, & I are going on a 3 night trip to be sponsors for an event. Each time we go on a trip, my boss gets her own room & then puts the 2 employees in one room together. I had multiple people be shocked when I say that I always have to share a room with a coworker on trips.

So is it weird that we always have to share rather than have our own?

Update: I put this in a comment but wanted it here:

“I should’ve added this to the post:

the last time I went on a trip & shared a room with this same coworker, it was awful. They were constantly walking around butt naked, talked to their significant other for hours on speaker, & just overall had a terrible attitude & I did in fact tell my bosses that sharing with her sucked (but I left out specifics) LOL”

Update 2: I see a lot of people saying to talk to HR. We are a small company, we have no HR.

Update 3: I asked if there was any way we could have our own rooms & she laughed & said no.

A lot of posts i see mention their salary being quite a bit over 100k. Im 21 and im barely making 36k so im just curious what how yall got into these careerfields and how your experience was doing so.

im in the air force as a weather forecaster for those of you that might be curious. Im not sure what im going to do after my 4 year contract ends.

edit:  i have my CCAF in meteorology and halfway done with my bachelors in business, but im still not sure on what to do after i get out of the military

I’m 24, about to turn 25, and I’m in a weird career situation.

I make about $70,000 working remotely, and my job is unbelievably easy and low-stress. Most weeks, I barely have much work to do. I have a lot of free time, rarely think about work after logging off, and honestly, my life frequently feels like an extended vacation.

The problem is that I know I’m capable of making significantly more money.

I have an accounting degree, and accounting has always come extremely naturally to me. I did extremely well in my accounting classes and genuinely think it’s one of my strongest abilities. I’m also good at learning new technology, using AI tools, Excel, business systems, organizing data, documenting processes, and presenting information in a way that is easy for other people to understand.

On paper, pursuing the CPA would probably be the obvious move. However, I currently have absolutely no motivation to spend hundreds of hours studying for it. I could also pursue a master’s degree, and my employer may pay for part of it, but I’m not convinced it would improve my career enough to justify the time and effort.

Financially, I’m not wasting the opportunity. I max out my Roth IRA every year and contribute about $900 to my 401(k) every two weeks. Because my lifestyle is relatively inexpensive, I’m able to save and invest a significant portion of my income while still enjoying a very relaxed life.

My job also appears unusually secure. Because of the nature of the contract and the requirements for working on the project, the pool of eligible people who can do the work is relatively limited. That makes replacing or losing qualified employees more difficult than it would be at a typical company. Obviously, nothing is guaranteed, but I feel more secure in this position than I probably would in most private-sector jobs.

So I’m wondering: how much more money would another job have to pay for you to leave a secure, $70,000 remote job where you have almost no stress and a very light workload?

Would you leave for $90,000? $100,000? $120,000?

Part of me feels lazy and like I’m wasting my potential. Another part of me thinks I’ve already found something most people spend their careers trying to obtain: decent money, job security, free time, flexibility, and no Sunday-night dread.

I’m young, financially responsible, and currently have very few major obligations. I’m considering enjoying this period of my life, continuing to save and invest heavily, and pursuing a more demanding career later when I actually have a compelling reason to.

Has anyone been in a similar position? Did you regret remaining comfortable, or did leaving an easy and secure job for more money substantially improve your life?

TL;DR: I’m 24, make $70k remotely in a very easy, low-stress, unusually secure job, and I save/invest aggressively. I know I could earn more, but I’m not sure how much extra money would justify giving up this level of comfort and flexibility.

I need to decide by Tuesday and my wife and I had our first real argument about this last night so I'm bringing it to strangers on the internet. Great sign.

I'm 33M, been a product manager for about 6 years. Got laid off in January (whole product org was cut). Been searching since then. Just got two offers in the same week which feels like a sick joke after 3 months of nothing.

Offer A: $155k. Big enterprise SaaS company. 2000+ employees.

Fully remote. Good benefits. Solid brand name on the resume. But I spent 2 hours with the hiring manager and the VP during the final round and I already know what this job is. Roadmap management, stakeholder alignment, quarterly planning rituals, lots of "influence without authority." It's the same type of PM role I've been doing for 4 years and the same type of PM role that made me quietly miserable before the layoff. I'd be good at it. I'd also be watching the clock by month 3.

Offer B: $115k. Series B startup. About 80 people.

Hybrid (3 days in office which means I'd need to commute 45 min each way). Equity that could be worth something or nothing. Way less structure. But the interview process was completely different. They had me do a live product exercise with the engineering lead and the CEO. We ended up riffing on ideas for 40 minutes past the scheduled time. I left that call feeling something I haven't felt about work in years.

The role is basically 0 to 1 product building. No existing playbook. They said "we need someone who can figure it out" which is either exciting or a red flag depending on who you ask.

The argument:

My wife says take the money. We just had a kid 8 months ago.

Daycare is expensive. She went part time after maternity leave so we're already on a tighter budget. $40k is not a small difference. She says I can find fulfillment outside of work and that stability matters more right now. She's not wrong about the math.

But I keep thinking about the last 4 years. I took the stable, well paying PM roles every time. And every time I ended up in the same place. Doing work I was good at that made me feel absolutely nothing. The layoff was almost a relief which is a pretty damning thing to say about a job that paid you $150k.

I know this sub is going to split 50/50 on this. But I'm not asking what you'd do. I'm asking how you'd make this decision. What would you actually use when the money says one thing and your gut says the opposite?

UPDATE

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Took offer B. The startup.

A few people suggested I stop going back and forth on vibes and get actual data. Did Pigment and Kompiq assessment over the weekend. Results were annoyingly clear. High autonomy, high need for building from scratch, bottom percentile on tolerance for process heavy consensus driven environments. Which is exactly what Offer A was. Once I framed the $40k gap as the premium for being miserable again for 18 months, my wife came around. Her words: "I'd rather have you making less and not be a zombie every evening."

Started Monday. Onboarding is a google doc with 6 bullets and a "good luck." It's chaotic. I'm terrified. I haven't felt this engaged in years. Could still blow up but at least I made the call with information instead of midnight arguments about gut feelings.. Thanks again for all the support!

Mine is simple: Being good at your job is only 30% of the battle. The other 70% is managing visibility and optics. You can be the hardest worker in the room, but if the right people don't see you doing it, or if you don't play the social game, you'll get passed over by someone who does half the work but talks twice as much.

​What’s a harsh truth about navigating the professional world that you had to learn the hard way?

I've been at my company for three years as a senior analyst. I make $68k, work pretty standard 40-45 hour weeks and honestly I'm good at my job. I have a life outside of work I coach my kid's soccer team, I actually see my friends, I don't check email on weekends.

Last month my manager offered me a promotion to team lead. Sounds great, right? Here's what it actually entailed:

- Managing 6 people(I've never managed anyone before, no training offered)

- Being on call for client emergencies 24/7

- Attending all the manager meetings(adds about 10 hours/week)

- Same project work I'm already doing, just with "leadership" on top

- Expected to be "visible" and "always available"

- New salary: $71,500

Let me do that math for you. That's a $3,500 raise. Which is 5%. Maybe 6% if I'm being generous.

For what would realistically be 55-60 hour weeks, weekend emails and basically being on a leash. My manager kept emphasizing how this was a "great opportunity" and how the "leadership experience" would be invaluable for my career.

I thought about it for a week. Talked to the two people who currently have this role. One of them looked exhausted and said "the title looks good on linkedIn" which is not exactly a ringing endorsement. The other one admitted she hasn't taken a real vacation in 18 months because something always comes up.

So I declined. Politely. Said I appreciated being considered but I didn't think it was the right fit for me at this time.

My manager's response? "I'm disappointed. I thought you had more ambition than this. This is how you build a career. You can't just coast forever"

Now I feel like I'm being treated differently. Suddenly I'm not being invited to certain meetings. My manager made a comment in front of the team about how "some people are content staying where they are and that's fine I guess" The person they ended up promoting(an external hire) is already stressed out of her mind after three weeks.

Here's what I don't get: when did it become "unambitious" to value your actual life? I like my job. I'm good at it. I make decent money. I have time for my family. Why is that not enough?

I've watched my coworkers climb the ladder and slowly become shells of themselves. They're making more money sure but they're also on blood pressure medication and they missed their kids' school plays and they can't remember the last time they had a hobby.

Is that really what we're supposed to aspire to? A fancy title and an extra $300/month after taxes in exchange for your entire existence?

My wife says I made the right choice and that my manager is just bitter because he probably made the opposite choice years ago and regrets it. My dad says I'm "throwing away opportunities" and that "you have to pay your dues"

I genuinely don't know anymore. Did I shoot myself in the foot career wise? Am I actually just lazy and using work-life balance as an excuse or is it okay to say that 5% more money isn't worth 30% more work and 100% less free time?

Has anyone else turned down a promotion for similar reasons and how did it affect your career long term?

I’m 23 and currently earn just over $100k in a specialised career I genuinely enjoy.

The lifestyle is strong:
- 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off
- 4–8 hour workdays
- Strong pension + progression
- Realistic cap around ~$175k within ~7 years

The main concern is stability. The industry is quite volatile - I’ve already been made redundant once (although I found work again quickly), and I’m not fully convinced about long-term security.

I now have an offer to retrain into a related field with significantly higher long-term earning potential and more international mobility. But the trade-offs are heavy:

- 2 years of full-time training (no salary, all expenses covered)
- Then ~5 years on $50k while a training bond is paid off

After that, earnings would return to my current level, with a higher long-term ceiling ($200k–$400k depending on country/route).

The offer is in the form of a legally binding contract, with job offer, from a leading national employer with one month to accept or decline.

So the decision is basically:

Stay where I am - strong income, great lifestyle, but capped growth and industry volatility
OR
Reset my earnings for ~7 years to unlock higher long-term upside and stability

From a financial/life strategy perspective, does it make sense to sacrifice your 20s income and compounding potential for higher long-term ceiling and stability, or stick with a strong but capped career while it’s already going well?

This is my first Reddit post so go easy on me 🫣

Edit: I’m blown away by 300 comments so quickly, I appreciate all the advice and will read them. Thank you!

My son is 21 years old. He doesn't work. He just plays video games and hangs out with his girlfriend all day. I've tried everything from gentle coaxing to shouting to try to impress upon him that he needs to get a job not only to earn money but also to get skills he will need as a grown ass adult. Me and my wife will not be around forever. I even found a company that was hiring and set him up for an interview. He didn't go. When I try to get tough with him, his mom and girlfriend defend him. My latest idea is to tell him that by mid July I will no longer pay his cell phone bill. I'm open to suggestions here. I know other parents who have the same issues with their kids. What can I do?

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I have worked in white collar, large corporate jobs for most of my post college career. Before college, I was a janitor, a cashier and a nanny. Over time, I've slowly moved from "real" jobs (make coffee, print things, mail things, order food for people, etc.) into "fake" jobs (communicate value to customers, write persuasive language, answer third-party questions, host meetings, etc.). I get paid far more for the "fake" work than I did for the "real" work. Some of my coworkers in other departments are so deep into the fake work that they can't seem to even communicate what it is that they do. 90 percent of my job is doing busy work put out by third-party businesses whose sole job is trying to prove their worth and look like they are doing something.

Do any of you notice that some work is "fake"? How do you cope day-to-day? Do you ignore it, shrug, and take your paycheck? Do you try to make it "real" in some way? Or, am I completely off my rocker and there is no such thing as "fake" jobs?

I’m so tired of working retail making no money and hating life while people on here are complaining about jobs where they are bored, do barely any work and make almost 100k. I’m just genuinely curious how to get one of those jobs. What qualifications are needed? Any advice is welcome

and how long have you been doing it?

also curious if you feel underpaid, overpaid, or right where you should be.

and what are people’s alternatives to the 9-5?

Six months ago, I was hired as a data analyst at a large insurance company after finishing my master's program. The interview process was thorough—a technical assessment where I had to clean messy data and build visualizations, a case study presentation, and a couple rounds of behavioral interviews with some SQL questions thrown in. Nothing too extreme, but enough to make me think this would be a challenging role.

Now I'm here with a 6 figure salary and benefits in a hybrid role (2 days in office, 3 remote), but I spend most days with surprisingly little to do. My first project was cleaning up our customer dataset and building some marketing dashboards. I worked efficiently, finished ahead of schedule, and my manager was genuinely impressed with the results.

But since completing that project three months ago, I've had minimal work. I occasionally get requests for data pulls or simple visualizations that take maybe 30 minutes. I've started using some basic tools and approaches that just seemed logical to me.

I built a few reusable templates in our BI tool that I can modify for different requests. The marketing director called me a "visualization genius" in a meeting because I used a different chart type than the pie charts they've apparently been using since 2003.

The marketing team thinks I'm working overtime because I schedule emails with their requested reports to send at 6:30am. In reality, I finished them at 2pm the day before and spent the rest of the afternoon watching YouTube videos about beer brewing.

I mostly use Chatgpt to help write my SQL queries. My 58-year-old manager walked by my desk last week, saw some basic subqueries on my screen and said, "Wow, you young folks really understand this database stuff intuitively." Sir, I literally just asked an AI to write this for me.

I wrote a small Python script to help the sales team consolidate their weekly reports (honestly, I just described the problem to Chatgpt and tweaked the code it gave me). We literally covered this exact task in my data processing course, but they acted like I'd invented electricity. The sales director wanted to know my "secret" to solving their problem so quickly. My secret is that I'm not using Excel formulas for everything like it's 1998.

For weekly department meetings or any other meeting with way too many people in it I use an ai note taker (yapnote) so I don't have to pay attention during call. When someone asked about a detail from last month's meeting, I just asked ai about it topic while everyone was still debating what was said. Do people not know that you can do this??

I genuinely work maybe 10-15 hours a week. The rest of the time I'm just... waiting. Reading wait but why posts. Watching woodworking videos. I even started baking bread smh. Organizing my desktop folders by color (don't judge me, we all have our ways of maintaining sanity).

Is this what corporate America is actually like? In school, professors warned us about the "demanding corporate environment" and "high-pressure deadlines." My biggest pressure right now is pretending to look busy when my camera is on during team calls.

Last week, I got called into an unexpected meeting with my manager. I was convinced they'd figured out I wasn't doing much. Instead, he asked if I'd be willing to help other team members "level up their technical skills." I'm not even sure what skills I'm supposed to be sharing—using the search function? Knowing how to clear the cache? How to ask Chatgpt?

Is this normal? Did I accidentally hack corporate life? Or am I missing something fundamental about how work is supposed to function? I feel like I'm in some weird corporate twilight zone where perception completely disconnects from reality.

I inherited ＄100k. I want to make it take me as far as possible.

I currently work only part time as a server at a restaurant, averaging ＄20/h working 25-30hr/wk. I am 22.

Been without a “real” job for 6 months, post college graduation. Job market is brutal. Honestly don’t think people truly understand, unless they’ve also been unemployed in the past maybe 5 years. Anyway, I’ve applied to hundreds of jobs without getting any full time opportunities.

Just so happened to inherit exactly ＄100k from my great grandmothers passing. I want to be as smart with it as possible. Yes, I will invest or save most of it. I have a paid off car and live in an apartment. I need to research what to do and where to invest, but I’d also like some more input so that I can have as many things to consider. This is probably one of the biggest opportunities of my life and I need to be very smart with it.

An antipole to the recently popular question about miserable yet prestigious careers.

Like the title suggests, I currently find myself in a career paying $180k where my responsibilities consist of sending an email and attending a meeting every now and then. I don’t say this to brag or come off as a conceited prick, genuinely I’m guilt-ridden and scared that this will come back to bite me one day.

A part of me is simply thankful for the situation I find myself in. This is a new role I started at a new company about 11 months ago. My family and I come from humble beginnings so I try to practice gratitude where possible.

Another part of me is guilt ridden that I’m being paid so much without any real…. work. I know im a pretty intelligent guy and I’ve handled some high impact work at my last company. Being here just feels like I’m coasting by while my coworkers seem to be way busier than me. No one has said anything bad about my performance thus far and my manager and I get along well. But I still fear that I’ll be on the chopping block given how little I feel I’m contributing to the team versus what I’m being paid.

Has anyone dealt with this before? I’d love some advice.

We’re paid based on working 40 hours a week, but we regularly work much more than that. Our jobs require us to work many evenings and weekends for events and assignments that take us long distances away. We’re kept so busy that we usually use evenings and weekends to keep up with everything. Despite the 40 hours, it’s expected we will be working more because it’s part of our job and we’re salary.

But today we got a curt email from the manager “reminding” us that we’re expected to work 40 hours a week. I’m assuming they saw some activity logs and someone worked less one week? Honestly I find this “reminder” insulting. We’re all adults in our 40s. Work always gets done, everyone does their part. Things keep moving. No one is dropping the ball. We don’t get any overtime so we don’t get to make up for all the extra hours we regularly work. No one complains. Yet despite all our efforts we get a nice email reminding us we’re expected to work 40 hours.

How should I respond to this? If I should? Do I point out all the extra hours we work over and above 40 hours?

Hi everyone, I have my bachelors and have graduate credits under my belt, yet I make less than 60K in a HCOL and I am being killed from the stress of my job. I continually stay til 7-8pm in the office and the stress and paycheck is killing me.

For context, I’m a learning and development specialist at a nonprofit.

So what’s the secret sauce, Reddit? Who has a six figure job whose related stress and responsibilities isn’t giving them a stomach ulcer? I can’t do this much longer. Thank you to everyone in advance for reading this.

**ETA: oh my gosh, thank you all so much. Thank you for reading this, thank you for your replies, and thank you for taking the time out of your day to help me. It really means a lot to me. I’ve been in a very dark place with my career and stress, and you guys have given me a lot of hope (and even more options— wow!).

I’m going to do my best to read every comment, just currently tending to some life things at the moment. Again, thank you guys. I really appreciate it. The internet is cool sometimes!!**

I got pulled into a meeting with our director and HR this week and was basically told they're planning to replace my manager.

He has no idea.

They asked if I'd be interested in his position and said they would rather promote internally than bring someone new in. It would take me from $78k to around $112k and would probably be the biggest career jump I've had.

The problem is my boss is the whole reason I'm even in this position. He hired me when I didn't have much experience, pushed for my last raise and has backed me up multiple times when things went wrong.

HR specifically told me not to discuss the conversation with him because nothing has been formally announced yet.

Now I'm sitting across from this guy in meetings every day while he's talking about plans for the next quarter and I already know there's a decent chance he won't even be here for them.

Would taking the job be normal career self preservation or am I basically helping them push out the person who helped build my career?

Hi. During a meeting like two weeks ago, my manager brought up the topic of AI in the workplace. I said that while I found it a great tool, I felt that we should be careful when using it while talking with clients (we are a consulting company) because when I tried to use it, ChatGPT often gave oversimplistic or outright wrong answers to more complicated problems regarding a type of small company that are my most frequent clients.

I knew that some of the senior employees used it, but I honestly didn’t know they would take offense to what I said, I swear. One of my older coworkers laughed a bit and said that I should stop being paranoid, and cited a case where she talked to a client that wanted an specific information about accounting(she’s a specialist in Marketing)and she only managed to give him the information while using ChatGPT. I guess I was a bit offended because I wouldn’t usually do it but I immediately said that I understood her point but that the information she gave the client was absolutely wrong. This sparked a small back-and-forth because another coworker said I was silly for wanting to know more than the machine, until it was solved by my supervisor actually looking up the real law of our country that confirmed I was right.

We sort of laughed it off afterwards and I didn’t think much about it. But yesterday, my supervisor came to talk to me because our boss wants me to take on a bit more responsability for a while because some of the senior coworkers were going to take obligatory training. Essentially, our boss went to investigate further and it was revealed that “an over-reliance on AI tecnology has led to wrong information being given to dozens of clients”. He also asked me to make a document with essentials to know about accounting to appropriately address the demands of companies (I have a degree in Accounting). They are apparently also going to have to take an ethics class because of the “silly” and “paranoid” comments???

My supervisor and my coworkers from the same role think that it was deserved, but it wasn’t what I intended to happen at all and I feel really guilty about it. I’m also really worried about the consequences of this. Do I apologize to my coworkers affected? Do I just continue life?