I don’t know where to put this

So I’ve recently encountered a situation in which I was given a ginormous task with extreme deadlines from a top manager and he basically personally forced me to use corporate AI. I reckoned this as a “firing task” as in a task which will make you fired. I used AI so I don’t lose my job especially since it pays for my life at least a bit. When I mentioned this, I was met with criticism, because while I solved this to not lose a job, I contributed in the normalization of this for the working class and now people will do this more. Received a remark from my friend that it’s signaling of lack of class consciousness too.

I am fairly new to theory, I’m trying to read when I get free time and physical capability, but I don’t understand well enough. If you’re handed a task like this, is it better to quit even risking your own life quality? Sorry if this is written weird, I am ESL