[HN Gopher] My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'...
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My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'm heartbroken
Author : account-5
Score : 46 points
Date : 2021-11-22 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| kelseyfrog wrote:
| What an excellent story about the working class reaping the
| rewards of automation. Had the business developed the solution,
| they would capture the difference instead. Whether it's true or
| not is irrelevant. At worst it is a parable. The lesson is that
| automation is not our savior.
| elzbardico wrote:
| Looks like what happened in the end. He was laid off because a
| new system made his job obsolete.
| ravedave5 wrote:
| We recently changed some UI at work and suddenly there were
| thousands of errors, the stack went into some tampermonkey
| methods, so users were definitely automating our system to do
| their job. Now the problem is tracking the users, finding who
| originally wrote this and seeing about getting them a better
| salary to help improve how the site works.
| Arrath wrote:
| What an excellent response to finding such a case.
| randombits0 wrote:
| Sorry, my BS detector tripped at paying two months salary for
| someone else to develop the solution. Someone in that situation
| doesn't have two months salary.
| account-5 wrote:
| I took it at face value. Whilst I can and do code in autohotkey
| I have done similar things with it but not on the scale this
| story goes into. I posted because if it was real fair play to
| the person.
| livinginfear wrote:
| At risk of being downvoted, I'm automatically _very_ skeptical
| of any story I see on Reddit. I pretty much just instantly
| assume it 's some kind of weird lie for online clout. The site
| culture there is very strange.
| account-5 wrote:
| I certainly wouldn't downvote you, even if I could, I'm
| skeptical of everything. Best way to be.
| dqv wrote:
| I can remember telling tons of lies on Reddit when I was a
| teenager, so I think your skepticism is valid.
| Dma54rhs wrote:
| Same. Tons of pepper get weird satisfaction out of it. I
| have no excuses. Reddit is cesspool anyway :)
| mkmk wrote:
| I thought this would be one of those 'my employer forgot I exist'
| posts, but it's actually quite different. When it comes to jobs
| that can be easily automated, I'm torn between the feeling that a
| person's potential is being wasted on an easy job, vs the feeling
| that they may be unemployed if somebody automates their job.
| jrumbut wrote:
| Just paying a clerk eliminates the risk of a software
| development project blowing out the budget or alienating
| customers used to the convenience of ordering by email.
|
| If whatever that company does is meaningful the poster
| contributed the same as anyone else.
| mikewarot wrote:
| I worked a job that went from busy all day, every day, to showing
| up and waiting for things to break over a decade as a system
| administrator. I tried to help improve the way things were done
| with their database, wrote a ton of code, 3 different times, and
| immediate needs always trumped long term fixes.
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| It broke me. I have no motivation these days as a result.
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