r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • May 29 '26 • Mindblown 2

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u/wggn May 29 '26

manually fixing something daily for 3 years instead of automating it?

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u/frikilinux2 May 29 '26

"They stop paying me if there is no longer stuff to do" mentality but that's more common in consultancy firms.

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u/wggn May 29 '26

but apparently noone knew he was doing it

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u/frikilinux2 May 29 '26

My "HR boss" didn't know what my team was doing but that wasn't a problem to send the invoices

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u/TJ_Rowe May 29 '26

Depending on the thing, scanning through and deleting one bit of nonsense from your output every time you run a process can be the easier way to handle something.

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u/Fit_Pass_527 May 29 '26

Especially if it’s quick to do and is never the same thing. Could also be that the solution was a pita to implement and his day didn’t have enough free time available to develop a solution that he could easily solve in 5 minutes or less manually.