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A general question that happens to be my predicament at current. I'm a general safety admin/manager that has automated most of my tasks(emails/excel sheets)

Most days I doomscroll fediverse and lurk irc/matrix channels on the work desktop but am curious about more practical or useful things I should be doing instead. It's looking like this will be my life for a good while since job market is abysmal and promotions are hyperstagnate(have also hit a wall in improving my scripts). If anyone has any similar experiences, please share and advise, as I feel quite lost and trapped :/

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Crazy. As someone whose job it is to automate, automating my job means getting more work. That’s kind of the definition of being more productive: by focusing on automation one person could do work that formerly took multiple people

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If your employers are willing to pay you more for the extra work you're getting done through automation, go for it. If your employers are going to fire your colleagues, make you do their work, then pocket the profit - keep your improvements to yourself and read a book

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 4 points 1 week ago

Tired that. Still got more work. Eventually I had a 3 day process down to half an hour, since the actual process was super inefficient. The company was restructuring and my coworkers were trying to avoid having their jobs automated. It all resolved by outsourcing, which was funny because the tasks only required 5-6 people, had 18 originally, and was called a win for being 'global'.

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