Management is cutting my job after I automated 15 hours of weekly work, do I have to document it for them?

[u/Claptrap_5Z]

When I took this coordinator job, our team was losing fifteen to twenty hours every week just updating client logs and manually formatting spreadsheets.

I built a few simple macros and formula templates that cut all that data entry down to an hour. I thought saving twenty hours a week would free me up for higher-level projects.

instead, my manager called me into a meeting last Friday. She told me that because our administrative workload dropped, they are merging my role with a part-time position and letting me go. To get my severance check, they want me to write step-by-step documentation for every macro I set up.

I literally worked myself out of a salary. I should of just kept doing the data entry by hand like the last person.

Do I ACTUALLY have to document processes I created that were not in my original job description?

[u/stuckinnowhereville]

I wouldn’t do it and I would skip this severance unless they are giving you six months pay with benefits.

Nope I’m petty.

[u/sprchrgddc5 → u/stuckinnowhereville]

Seriously. This manager can go kick rocks.

[u/CSPN → u/stuckinnowhereville]

This is why you save up fuck you money. Pay yourself first and have enough saved to bridge a gap.

Cleanest answer if OP is financially positioned to do so. IDK US Law so not sure how unemployment works if they refuse to follow requests made by their employer.