@404mediaco as my mind struggles to understand why any profit-driven company would actively mandate that employees spend as much money as possible on a service provided by an outside vendor, and rank employees by how much expense they incur, only one explanation makes sense to me: payola. if the managers who set these perverse incentives weren't being personally rewarded financially in some way that is not linked to their company's profits, then the only explanation left really is irrational AI psychosis. I haven't seen any investigation of bribery as a possible explanation; maybe 404 media can look into it.