How To Automate Your Work, And Get Paid To Do Nothing?
So, How To Automate Unproductive Work?
Hear the real story of a guy that has literally automated everything he was doing at his job while he was still getting paid for it every month. In his reddit post he admitted that he had a data entry position for the last 5 years and soon after he started, he decided to automate all the tasks.
That might be the nightmare of an employer and the dream of an employee. Or maybe not?
Well, we have to admit that all jobs and especially data entry positions end up being a boring routine.
But this situation might be the nightmare of an employer and the dream of an employee. Or maybe not?
How Did This Guy Automate His Work?
Right after his training he realized that this task is something that can be automated. So, he hired a developer to write the code. For the first 2 years he would check for tasks that the code could not perform, and the rest of the time would watch movies.
He was doing such a remarkable job that he was offered promotions that he rejected as this was an automated task with almost no manual effort.
“I even got 2 salary raises at some point for never missing a day, and being the top producer in my 3 people department, to which I corresponded by changing the 9 and switching it to an 11 or 10 on some days.”
Reddit user
Why Was This Strategy a Waste of Time For the Employer?
From the point of view of the employer it is a waste of money that he could have easily prevented.
Why?
1. He could have the job done faster.
2. He could prevent data entry mistakes that the employee might have.
3.He could save the working hours that he is paying to the employee to do that task.
How Does Automation Impact The Work That We Do?
This could be a helpful tool that could be used either to bring value to the company and the employee could be occupied with more important tasks or for the employee to deceive his employer while he is doing anything but working.
There are many occasions that the employer doesn’t know the time management of his employees with the result that we all know, employees spending time in social media, chatting, or reading news when they should be working. Imagine employees automating procedures so they would have more free time like the reddit user.
On the other side it might be a worrying step for data entry positions and repetitive roles to be replaced from Bots like this one.
Why Aren’t Companies Aware of Data Automation?
Companies tend to avoid adopting new methods/technologies either because it is something that they don’t understand and that might be scary or because they think they are doing great even without it.
Technology is evolving rapidly, especially after the breakthrough of covid. Automation is taking over everything and sooner or later all industries will be affected. In the future we will see that no matter the profession people will need to know the basics of a programming language as it will be the only way to communicate with the machines. Automation is here to make our lives easier.
How Did It Go For the Guy?
As for the Reddit user, he found another job after several years at this company. Of course he didn’t quit his previous job! One day, unfortunately he was let go, but only because of the changes in the structure of the company.
“I did try to schedule a demonstration of ‘’my code’’, I think that was back in 2017.The regional manager told me they are very busy dealing with the important stuff, just to keep doing the good work I was doing…which I f@@@ing did until the day I was let go.”
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