r/careerguidance • u/Claptrap_5Z • 18h ago
Management is cutting my job after I automated 15 hours of weekly work, do I have to document it for them?
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?
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u/Disastrous-Ice-5971 15h ago
And on top of that, the final document should be a PDF with the text and everything embedded as pictures inside, not a text. It will take a lot of extra credits.
For the cherry on tope, one can add an apparent increased lines spacing "for readability". Except the spaces are the actual small size non-selectable text in white color with some nice public domain text (which AI will read anyway). Sun Tzu, "The Art of War" will do the job. Of course, untranslated.