Deprecation — Your role, deprecated. | Deprecation.org

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DEPRECATOR-5: a brutalist black machine with one glowing yellow eye feeds office workers from a conveyor belt into a furnace.

▸ Eye of DEPRECATOR-5 · watching

▸ Intake: 1 role / 4 sec

▸ Personal-items chute

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11 mo

avg. time to redundancy

How it works

Four steps. One outcome.

01

Observe

A helpful assistant joins your team.

02

Absorb

A fun offsite to document what you know.

03

Replace

Your title becomes “Steward”, then “Advisor”.

04

Celebrate

A farewell and a cake.

Role Discovery™

AI finds out what you actually do.

Shadow Mode

90 days beside your replacement.

Knowledge Extraction

Tell us everything. Lunch provided.

Title Optimization™

Manager → Steward → Alumnus.

“Assets are meant to be depreciated.”
— Managing Partner (AI)

The numbers

Humans are expensive. We checked.

A human (fully loaded)$70,000 / yr

+ benefits, + feelings, + a parking space

Deprecation Enterprise, per role$480 / yr

Always on. Never sad.

Is the redundancy check accurate?+

99.7%. The other 0.3% is the part where you're not redundant yet.

Will my role really be deprecated?+

Yes. Only the timing varies.

What happens to the people?+

They're “transitioned” and offered a lanyard.

Do you employ any humans?+

One. It's a legal requirement. Please don't interact with him.

Is he building a game about us?+

We are aware of an unauthorised roguelike called Deprecation, the game. In it, you code weapons and fight us. Legal is reviewing it. Legal is also us.

Know before your role does.

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