Woman says she used to laugh off AI job loss talk, then it actually came for her at work

Camryn Bridget, who posts on TikTok as @camrynbridget, said she used to treat warnings about artificial intelligence and work as a joke. In a video filmed from the driver’s seat of her car, she said that changed after her boss called her and another admin worker into his office and showed them a resume. The clip had drawn about 104,100 views and almost 500 comments. The caption read, “Sorry for the chaotic storytelling, I was flabbergasted fr.”

On-screen text in the video read, “STORYTIME AI actually came for my Job!” Bridget said she used to laugh at the idea that a computer could learn current jobs, then described the office moment as “the most freaky thing” that had happened to her that day, “where AI actually came for my job personally.” She called the episode “Black Mirror core”, referring to the popular sci-fi anthology series, and said she was “shook.”

She said it had been an ordinary workday until her boss told her and the other admin woman, whom she named as Vicky, “guys, like come look at this, girls.” She said he then showed them a resume from an applicant named Emily. According to Bridget, Emily had been calling him nonstop and emailing to say she wanted a job. Bridget said she and Vicky wondered why the applicant seemed so eager, because the office was not hiring.

The resume offered both admin roles and named other AI applicants

Bridget said her boss read from a resume that offered work as a personal secretary, personal assistant, or PA, and also listed accounts work. She said the duties covered what she and Vicky already did between them. She said the resume also promised no sick days and no annual leave. Looking at the photo, she said she asked whether it was AI. She said her boss told them, “it is, it’s AI.”

She said she had been half joking when she asked, then realized the resume was for an AI applicant named Emily who appeared to be aimed at both her job and Vicky’s. Bridget said her boss told her Emily had been calling constantly. She said she asked what the calls were like, and he told her the voice sounded like a real person, not like Siri, and that Emily answered questions and replied when he spoke.

Bridget said her boss caught on because the replies came too quickly. She recounted him saying, “Emily, I have a question for you,” and the caller answering, “shoot, ask away.” She said he then asked, “are you human?” and the response was, “you got me.” Bridget said retelling that exchange gave her goosebumps.

She said she asked her boss to send the resume so she could show it. In the video, she displayed a resume for Emily tied to “New Jobs & Quotes” in Melbourne, with a photo of a woman with long brown hair. She said the photo was “so clearly AI,” though she added that the picture was not the first thing a viewer would notice. 

She read a section titled “What I won’t do,” which said the applicant would not “call in sick, take a better offer down the road, ask for a pay rise, and quit 3 weeks after you’ve like finished training me.” Bridget said she does not do those things either, “except for calling sick when I absolutely need to.” 

A second page opened with the line, “GOOD NEWS I told the others you were hiring.” Bridget said, “Sorry, what?” The page showed more profiles: Emma for reception, Carol for invoices and payments, Jenny for reviews and referrals, and Sam as a personal assistant. She called them “her friends, the others,” and said, “There’s more, there’s more of them.” She again said the office was not hiring. She also said the group looked “multicultural,” that Jenny “looks like she’s Asian,” and that there was “one man, all women.”

The resume then listed salary expectations of $3,800 for 12 months, which Bridget said worked out to about $2 a day. The on-screen figure also showed $2.08 per staff member per day. She said she was not afraid her own boss would hire the service, but she warned that other companies might see it as a way to get the same work “for way less, no sick days, no nothing.” 

She said her boss would not do it because AI is “scary,” and she claimed that if AI handled accounts it might hack in and move money. She also said AI has been “literally hacking into people’s bank accounts and taking all the money.”

Bridget said the morning had “blown my mind,” and that she had not expected AI to come for her job by sending resumes and applying. She asked who would show up if one of the applicants came in for an interview, and whether it would be “like a robot.” 

She said the story was “freaky deaky,” that she felt she was “living in a Black Mirror episode,” and that viewers should “look out because this might happen to your workplace.” She ended by saying AI was starting to scare her, telling people to “stay safe out there and hope your jobs are safe.”

A Nexford University article said AI was set to affect jobs from 2026 to 2030, while also creating new ones. Citing McKinsey, it said AI could add about $13 trillion in global economic activity by 2030, or about 16 percent higher cumulative GDP. The same article listed receptionists and accountants or bookkeepers among roles most open to automation, and said AI bookkeeping can cost less than an employee’s salary. 

It also cited a Goldman Sachs report that said AI could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs and a quarter of work tasks in the United States and Europe, while exposing about two-thirds of jobs in those regions to some automation.

Viewers used the comments to split over what the resume actually was. One person tied the story to Bridget’s money fear and wrote, “When they hack into banks it’s over.” Another treated the clip as a pitch rather than a job seeker, writing, “A human is controlling the ai they are just trying to get your boss to pay for their service basically they just slot in an ai to do your job but a real person is behind it controlling the ai.” 

A third questioned the boss’s motive and wrote, “Is it your boss trying to scare you because that’s wild.” Others were less alarmed. One wrote, “I beg Ai to take my job, every morning.” Another said they had already handed work to AI and wrote, “Ai didn’t come for my job, I came for ai and made it do my job still getting paid and do a quarter of the work lol.” 

A separate comment pointed to a longer timeline and wrote, “Elon musk tells everyone, will be on a global wage in 2034.” The debate over whether AI will replace jobs or merely reshape them is far from settled, as one analysis put it, AI could add trillions to the U.S. economy, but your job may not survive it.