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/hornwalker]

I make a nickel, boss makes a dime, that’s why I poop on company time.

[u/daverosstheboss → u/hornwalker]

I make a penny, boss makes a buck, that's why I don't give a fuck.

[u/jsc8769 → u/daverosstheboss]

That's why I stole all of the catalytic converters off the company trucks.

[u/JacqueMorrison → u/jsc8769]

The word you seek is “misplaced”.

[u/johnnybna → u/daverosstheboss]

I make a penny, boss makes a shitton of money, plus weeks of vacation, plus perks like a pension plan, paid life insurance, company car, company credit card, expense accounts, and gets a bonus regardless of profitability, and has a contract with a golden parachute, plus his wife Karen is a real stuckup bitch to anyone not in upper management, oh and he’s such a dick about bathroom time, like I’m supposed to crank one off in like 5 minutes, and.... Wait, what were we talking about?

[u/Deep-Hovercraft-6863 → u/hornwalker]

I make 200, company makes 4k, that’s why I shit 9 times a day.

[u/sp3rchrg3d → u/hornwalker]

I’ve even logged my toilet time on the time sheets, think I got over 60 hours so far this year

[u/benskinic → u/sp3rchrg3d]

shit yeah

[u/plurien → u/benskinic]

Every job application from now on: MY PREVIOUS POSITION CLOSED BECAUSE I AUTOMATED IT OUT OF EXISTENCE

[u/RadVarken → u/plurien]

I'd hire you.

[u/sharkbait-oo-haha → u/RadVarken]

Then fire you.

[u/AndrewCushen → u/benskinic]

Literally

[u/flojo2012 → u/sp3rchrg3d]

It’s a mini vacation

[u/sp3rchrg3d → u/flojo2012]

I’ve done better in the past.

Between 2018-2020 I used to play asphalt legends/08 on my iPhone in the mornings for about an hour doing all the daily activities, then sat on the loo again fucking around on my phone in the afternoon while browsing 9GAG. So at least least an hour and a half sitting on the toilet playing on my phone for around 5 days a week, 47 weeks a year, for 2.5 years.

[u/Informal-Gold-3953 → u/sp3rchrg3d]

If you spend 10 minutes every workday pooping, you get 40 hours a year. You're killing it!

[u/Good_wolf → u/sp3rchrg3d]

15 min/day at 5 days/week is 1.25 hours.

At 52 weeks per year, you’ve just taken off a cool 65 hours that year. 62.5 with 2 weeks PTO.

[u/Then-Departure4896 → u/Good_wolf]

I work 12 hour shifts and definitely spend at least 30 minutes in the bathroom on a good day. Probably make enough pissin/shittin to pay for my lunch break most days. Neat. Never thought about that before.

[u/jimvasco → u/sp3rchrg3d]

You have just valued the mysterious shitload.

[u/ArcadeKingpin → u/hornwalker]

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I slime on company time.

[u/SakishimaHabu → u/ArcadeKingpin]

Boss makes a thousand, I make a cent, that’s why I shit on the carpet.

[u/feanturi → u/SakishimaHabu]

Rose are red, violets are blue, fuck you boss.

[u/_neviesticks → u/hornwalker]

That was true fifty years ago. Now it’s, I make a penny, boss makes a tenner, that’s why we eat that fucker for dinner.

[u/AlmightySeaver → u/hornwalker]

Dude... imagine getting 50% of what the top dog makes. That'd actually be great nowadays!

The 2026 version should be rewritten along the lines of:

I make a nickel, boss makes ten bucks. So I take long dumps on the clock, cuz I give no fucks.

[u/IRadiateYou1999 → u/hornwalker]

More like, boss makes a dollar, I make a dime!

[u/Opandemonium → u/hornwalker]

I did that math and in today’s economy:

I make a nickel, the boss makes fifteen dollars and sixty cents

Can’t make it rhyme though 😭

[u/thx1138- → u/hornwalker]

I did it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime

[u/WoooWeeeWuben → u/hornwalker]

I make a tuppence, my boss makes a ton, hence why i sit on my thumbs.