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I Automated My Job Over A Year Ago And Haven t Told Anyone

Rokas Laurinavičius and
Justinas Keturka
One IT employee is going viral after sharing his confession about automating his job and spending his workdays playing video games. In an honest post made in the popular subreddit r/AntiWork, an anonymous Redditor said that he works as an IT specialist at a small law firm, and that they have spent nearly every day since the beginning of the global pandemic doing whatever they want. Titled, "I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone," the story has received over 80,000 upvotes and nearly 5,000 comments in just two days. The guy said that he was hired to handle all of the digital evidence his employer uses during trials and that when COVID arrived, they requested him to work from home. Within a week of making the adjustment, the Redditor wrote, debugged, and perfected a script to do his entire job for him. It's been over a year, and nobody at his company has any clue.

Who wouldn t like a well-paying job with little responsibility

Image credits: Throwaway59724 This isn't the first time something like this happened. We published a story about a similar case in November. In it, we talked about how Redditor u/Cynicusme opened up to everyone on the same subreddit about how he has been paid to 'do nothing' for the past 5 years. But if you dig around on the internet, you'll find even more examples. Someone by the nickname Etherable posted the following question to Workplace on Stack Exchange, one of the web's most important forums for programmers: "Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?" The conflicted coder described accepting a programming gig that had turned out to be "glorified data entry" and the way they also put the entire job on autopilot. After that, "what used to take the last guy like a month, now takes maybe 10 minutes." The job was full-time, with benefits, and allowed Etherable to work from home. The program produced near-perfect results and for all management knew, its employee simply did flawless work. Economists and futurists have been excited about automation for quite some time, dreaming about the time when machines would eliminate the drudgery of mindless and repetitive labor, freeing humans to fill our days with leisure, creative pursuits, or more meaningful stuff. In 1930, for example, John Maynard Keynes speculated that "automatic machinery and the methods of mass production" would help deliver a 15-hour workweek-and even those hours would only be necessary to help us feel like we have something to do. However, almost a century later, we're not even close to this.