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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:21 pm
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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:25 pm to The Baker
Sounds like this guy is the boss in your example.


Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:26 pm to The Baker
Honestly, it really depends on the relationship(s) you have with management and coworkers. I hate my current position at my company, but don't hate the company. So it would be tough for me to sleep at night knowing my coworkers were wasting their time doing base work i automated. I'd capitalize on it. I would get a few months out of it, enjoying my brilliance and skill, then pitch the automation idea, pretend i'm building and testing it, then release it at the peak opportunity for a promotion. 2 birds....best of both worlds.
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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:27 pm to weagle99
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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:27 pm to The Baker
It is unethical for several reasons the most obvious of which is the dishonesty on his part.
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:28 pm to The Baker
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You don't sell time! You sell results! Despite what everyone says here, you do not sell 40 hours of data entry per week, you sell the result processing X spreadsheets
This. Who cares how it gets done?
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:28 pm to LakeViewLSU
Guy does spreadsheets for work, creates a program that would take a normal worker weeks to complete, but his programs does it in 10 mins. He purposely puts bugs in it to make the person who checks his work believe its real (fake human error). Gets paid 40 hrs a week for 2 hrs of work
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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:28 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:28 pm to The Baker
He had the bisque and yada yada yada....
But you yada yada'd over the best part....
I think I mentioned the bisque
PS - you shoulda yada'd more
But you yada yada'd over the best part....
I think I mentioned the bisque
PS - you shoulda yada'd more
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:28 pm to The Baker
All the power to you but is it worth the risk of losing a good paying job that gives you that much free time and with your son. I'm single so I'd say frick it!
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:29 pm to dirtsandwich
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It is unethical for several reasons the most obvious of which is the dishonesty on his part.
true.
BUT. companies nowadays might slash the entire department with such automation and not think twice about it ...
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:29 pm to Skinner
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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:30 pm to The Baker
Unethical. He's not being a good steward of the company's time
This post was edited on 6/30/17 at 7:41 am
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:30 pm to The Baker
If I finish an initiative at work early, I don't get to take the next 3 months off. I get to start working on the next one and then the next one and then the next one till I stop doing that job. It's like thatbwith pretty much every job in the department ineork for. It never stops and if you get through it quicker, they'll just pile more on top of you.
Your job is to work and you are paid to work. If you have freed up your schedule by ingenuity, your company should be giving you more work to compensate.
Your job is to work and you are paid to work. If you have freed up your schedule by ingenuity, your company should be giving you more work to compensate.
This post was edited on 6/29/17 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:30 pm to The Baker
The company is paying him to do a job. He is doing said job. Whether that takes him 3 hours or 3 weeks, I don't see the problem. He's delivering the product they want within the timeframe they want.
ETA: IMO it would be unethical if the company asked him to take on more and he said that he didn't have any time to do more. But under his current circumstances, I don't see a problem.
ETA: IMO it would be unethical if the company asked him to take on more and he said that he didn't have any time to do more. But under his current circumstances, I don't see a problem.
This post was edited on 6/29/17 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:30 pm to The Baker
OK to automate/time-save repetitive tasks, not-OK to use at least some -- if not most -- of that now-free time to invent new stuff that benefits employer.
OTOH, if the employer doesn't like the new stuff, then f- 'em, sell it to the highest-bidder competitor.
OTOH, if the employer doesn't like the new stuff, then f- 'em, sell it to the highest-bidder competitor.
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