Genius Has Automated Their $90K IT Job, And The Boss Has No Clue

I wonder how long it’s been since people started worrying about robots stealing their jobs? To be fair, considering how far technology has evolved, it’s not an entirely unreasonable concern for anyone, but one person on Reddit has found that the tech-uprising can actually work in their favour.

Over on the r/antiwork subreddit (which I frankly did not know was a thing before just now), an anonymous user, going by Throwaway59724, shared how they managed to write a script to completely automate their $90K job over a year ago, and no one has noticed. 

Robots might not be able to take over the world on their own just yet, but they sure can write up the entire Shrek script.

“I work for a mid-size law-firm that hired me as an IT specialist to handle all of their digital evidence for trials,” the user said. “The law-firm was in the process of changing their evidence managing system to [be] Cloud based, and wanted me to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud, everyone else would be limited to view only and would work on a local network drive.”

They explained that they soon realised after starting the job that this was the only task they were expected to perform, and it didn’t come even close to taking up a full day’s work. However, when the pandemic began and they were asked to work from home, they managed to adapt their job into something even less hands-on.

“In about a week I was able to write, debug, and perfect a simple script that performed my entire job. It essentially scans the on-site drive for any new files, generates hash values for them, transfers them to the Cloud, then generates hash values again for fidelity (in court you have to prove digital evidence hasn't been tampered with),” they said. “I clock in every day, play video games or do whatever, and at the end of the day I look over the logs to make sure everything ran smoothly, then clock out. I'm only at my desk maybe 10 minutes a day.”

As you’d imagine, other Reddit users are very impressed with the feat: “Think of your wages as a subscription service to your automation program lol. Big companies love subscription services right[?]” commented BlobTheBuilderz.

It’s alright for some, huh? According to the user, the code script itself isn’t even super complicated, but the firm they work for just isn’t very tech savvy, so they wouldn’t have come up with it themselves. Let’s just hope for their sake that no one at their job uses Reddit, either. 

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