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/RichardBottom 7h ago
I used copilot to build an overlay that now does most of our heavy lifting. It’s just using the API from the tool we all have access to, but it’s aimed right at all our tasks and saves hundreds of hours a week. My team has gotten so dependent on it, when they took the API side of the platform down for maintenance one day, our manager just said we could all log out for the rest of the day and pick up tomorrow, even though the core site and its ui were still running.
The crazy part about this is that it’s all hosted on my own GitHub page.
I don’t think anyone’s gonna mess with me on this team, and if anything does happen it’ll be our whole team getting axed anyway. But it’s still a weird amount of power to wield in my position, where there are people answering phones at a higher pay grade than my role.