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/Aefyns 14h ago
This. Have AI write it the take that and toss it through another AI. Like scanning and copying a letter over and over it loses its clarity.
Then delete every 5th step.
Or just laugh and tell them no unless they offer a severance package. If this is just for the money they owe you then you hit the jackpot. M
Almost every state has penalties for not paying money for a paycheck on time to laid off people.