Employee gets caught running a program that automates their entire job, leading to an unexpected conversation with IT: ‘I was hoping they would offer me a job’

Some people are worried about the prospects of AI taking over their jobs, fearing the day that their skills would become useless. Then there are people who actively try to find a way a computer would be able to do their entire job so that they would not actually have to work. But if you do manage to find a way to get an automatic program to do all your work, you better keep that information a secret, because if someone at your workplace were to find out, it might not look good for your future there.

The employee in this Reddit story tried time and time again to write a script that would automate their job, and they actually succeded. The main problem arose when their account kept getting suspended, probably because it was doing things it was not meant to do, but the employee kept on trying. Eventually, the employee gets a call from IT to check what is going on, and both are surprised by the outcome…

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