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I wrote a Tampermonkey script which more or less was a true 'automate someone out of a job' situation, except it didn't do that at all; it freed up 20+ hours a
by chucky_z 3y ago
I wrote a Tampermonkey script which more or less was a true 'automate someone out of a job' situation, except it didn't do that at all; it freed up 20+ hours a week that someone had to sit there and do this awful manual thing with vendor portals, csv's, and spreadsheets.
I haven't worked at that job for almost a decade, and last I heard it's continued being used with only a small amount of maintenance.
That's the most compliments I've ever gotten for any software I've ever written and it had very real human impact.
- mdorazio 3y agoReminds me of my first job out of college as a data analyst. At least 60% of the work was extremely repetitive spreadsheet work and emails. Wrote some macros and automation scripts to do almost all of it in ~3 minutes instead of 4 hours and spent the saved time doing more interesting things that led to my next job. In my case, however, I sufficiently automated the job that they didn't replace me when I left. I got a call ~4 years later because one of the macros broke when they finally updated Excel. Fixed it for a small fee, and to my knowledge they're still using it today.