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> the business is forgiving enough (or amateur enough?) that THEY don't even fully understand their processes. After the first few waves of automation, the bu
by rodgerd 11y ago
> the business is forgiving enough (or amateur enough?) that THEY don't even fully understand their processes.
After the first few waves of automation, the business made the savings to justify automation by sacking everyone who understood the processes, all the RPG programmers who moved the processes into code have retired, and now we're getting by on hope and hacks.
- busterarm 11y agoAnd when you're in the crosshairs of a weird edge case, you are fuuuuucked. Even the guy I knew who drew payroll & disability for 9 years after being terminated. They finally caught up to him.