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/Far_Programmer_5724]

And if you're being fired there's no downside to going to your managers boss and making sure they know what they are losing.

[u/Basic_Loquat_9344 → u/Far_Programmer_5724]

The loss of severance is the downside.

[u/followyourvalues → u/Basic_Loquat_9344]

There is still unemployment

[u/PrettyKitten32 → u/Basic_Loquat_9344]

Is that legal? Can OP type the original job requirements instead? Is there some kind of patent law that can be used here?