Anonymous
7/7/2025, 11:36:36 PM
No.105831273
>>105831175
>I automated my own damn job with Python.
one time I received a bad performance review for "pursuing personal hobbies while on watch" for browsing SS64.com and automating the data entry part of my core trade job. at first it was findstr for /l COM abuse stuff and I gradually learned enough powershell to mangle plaintext in the same way and a little faster/better (everything I was working with were plaintext files, literal .TXTs, potentially spat out of teletype machines). I did the same thing you did but almost ate a criminal charge for it, which was only downgraded to a destructively bad performance review
Managers since have been sympathetic (and even sometimes asked me to recreate those scripts) and in interviews it makes for a good story for the usual "what are you most proud of at your job"/"describe a time you had conflict with your manager or coworkers" type shit test questions
but I will still DIE MAD about it and to this day when I have thoughts to automate stuff, even if just slightly improving some bullshit excel sheet used for an interim report, I keep it to myself. and the few times I do lapse into bravery or faith and reveal some horrid set of load-bearing scripts (or, god forbid, excel sheets) I've been using, it's usually just met as a novelty and I'm asked to hand-write a report instead. sometimes literally, with a pen.
>I automated my own damn job with Python.
one time I received a bad performance review for "pursuing personal hobbies while on watch" for browsing SS64.com and automating the data entry part of my core trade job. at first it was findstr for /l COM abuse stuff and I gradually learned enough powershell to mangle plaintext in the same way and a little faster/better (everything I was working with were plaintext files, literal .TXTs, potentially spat out of teletype machines). I did the same thing you did but almost ate a criminal charge for it, which was only downgraded to a destructively bad performance review
Managers since have been sympathetic (and even sometimes asked me to recreate those scripts) and in interviews it makes for a good story for the usual "what are you most proud of at your job"/"describe a time you had conflict with your manager or coworkers" type shit test questions
but I will still DIE MAD about it and to this day when I have thoughts to automate stuff, even if just slightly improving some bullshit excel sheet used for an interim report, I keep it to myself. and the few times I do lapse into bravery or faith and reveal some horrid set of load-bearing scripts (or, god forbid, excel sheets) I've been using, it's usually just met as a novelty and I'm asked to hand-write a report instead. sometimes literally, with a pen.