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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

could have just said, "sure, take the time you need."

instead of wasting 5 minutes and burning down a tree and a half.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Especially since the prompt couldn't have been all that much shorter. They had to put "tell an employee it's OK to take a paid day off" into the LLM, so they saved all of 2 sentences and maybe 90 seconds by not writing it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Opening chatgpt, copy pasting the answer into the email client probably took them as long as it would have just typing: "It's ok you dont need approval for when you are sick, get well soon"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Ah, but didn't you see how flowery and professional the result sounded? People like flowery, two-faced corporate lingo.