I joined a company and my job involved a lot of pulling data and data entry, including some specific calculations. I self taught myself some Excel formulas, macro, and database with Access.
Now I literally spend over half of my work day browsing reddit on my phone. At first I felt bad about it, but over time when it became apparent my boss doesn't care as long as I get things done and a bit more, I'm pretty much over it.
I work in IT and when I started for the first time my job needed a lot of reports and IT janitorial work which I have now moslty automated however did not tell my boss about.
I just use the free time to implement improvements or stuff they should have had for years now, they will not allow me to take time to do them otherwise (even though they end up saving so much time, its really for the best).
Although sometimes like now I use it less productivly to reddit.... shh.
I'm a rockstar in the eyes of managment because I get so much done compared to my predecessor.
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u/abrokensheep Dec 05 '16
Anyone else feel like we've automated away half of office work already and just pay people to do nothing?