• Hoomod@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I remember reading a story where the persons job was literally copying data from one program into another, may have even just been between two excel files

    New hire came in and wrote a script that did it, and automated that person’s job out of existence

    • swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      And the new hire made less than the person they fired. Efficiency is supposed to save us but if the benefits aren’t shared with the workers, we end up where we are headed today.