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/Disastrous-Ice-5971]

Great idea! And it could be something like "all the formulas, used to calculate taxes to be paid, contain a mistake, which should be fixed at all times, as paying the taxes accurately to the penny is very important..."

[u/Subcluttervisability → u/Disastrous-Ice-5971]

I think that " basis points " would be more helpfull.... say, 42 basis points.