I bet it has the exact opposite effect. If your boss starts talking about how he's going to replace all the help desk with AI, the current employees are going

I bet it has the exact opposite effect. If your boss starts talking about how he's going to replace all the help desk with AI, the current employees are going to give up any care at all they had left and even start jumping ship. Despite what you think the labor market is super hot and strong for most segments besides white collar tech (every metric still bears this out, unemployment especially in services and lower wage jobs is historically low). If you're working a shitty help desk job that you know the boss is doing his best to eradicate then you're just going to spend working hours applying to other service jobs and jump ship.