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/redobfus]

If you're willing to walk away now without the severance then what this is, is an opportunity to negotiate.

"$X isn't worth the psychic upset of documenting myself out of a job, but for $Y I could soothe those nerves."

But you have to be willing to walk if they say "pound sand, we'll just ask Claude to document your macros."

[u/daizeUK → u/redobfus]

If someone came into my office drivelling on about “psychic upset” and needing their nerves soothed I’d be eager to see the back of them lol

[u/redobfus → u/daizeUK]

Of course. I was suggesting the exact wording they should use.