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Latest Example of Widespread Fake Assertions (False News) About "Hey Hi"

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 21, 2026

Corporate media:

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI

By "Ram Iyer" (looks like liar with a "y")

Also corporate media: (only a few hours apart)

Intuit CEO says company’s 17% workforce cut had ‘nothing to do with AI’

They can't both be right, can they?

The false narrative of "Hey Hi layoffs" needs to stop. Seriously, we need to reject it and call out the media for its BS, which it is sometimes sponsored (paid directly) to relay to us in order to keep the "hey hi" buzz or hype alive (FOMO).

"Hey Hi" or "hey hi" (slop basically) isn't replacing workers, it's just a go-to excuse for companies that rot and sink deep into debt - debt they cannot pay back. They could really use some creative storytelling to spin their failure as "modernisation" (or make allusions to "revolution", "arms race", "superintelligence" and bots framed as "agents"). It helps managers who fail at their job evade accountability for failure.

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