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/daverosstheboss]

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?