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This Guy Wrote A Computer Program To Do His Job For Him.

by Joe Mobley
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"Then I used some form of macro to feed that data into the credit reporting agencies system. I did feel bad because these were real people and while a person might miss a few names, the software would not. So I would randomly pardon a person until the next round. This task normally took a month. It now took less than 15 minutes."
Bold is mine.

There is a certain amount of poetic justice in this. I love it!

Computer Program Does Your Job - Business Insider

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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Walker
    It's like the guy that outsourced his coding job to china and spent the day on Facebook. Instead of being given a promotion they fired him.
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    • Profile picture of the author Greedy
      Originally Posted by RockingLastsForever View Post

      It's like the guy that outsourced his coding job to china and spent the day on Facebook. Instead of being given a promotion they fired him.
      Hahaha link me
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      • Profile picture of the author Gonzosan
        Ah yes. I remember back in my System Administration days where the older guys would say "Why do it the hard way when you can have a program do the work for you?". They would always gloat about having programs running in the background to do just about everything they could. It's why I love IT.

        None the less I love that idea and I hope to do something like that myself in future businesses, it's one of the main attractions to doing business online.
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        • Profile picture of the author Walter Parrish
          Originally Posted by Gonzosan View Post

          Ah yes. I remember back in my System Administration days where the older guys would say "Why do it the hard way when you can have a program do the work for you?". They would always gloat about having programs running in the background to do just about everything they could. It's why I love IT.

          None the less I love that idea and I hope to do something like that myself in future businesses, it's one of the main attractions to doing business online.
          These days they don't need us the computers do it all. Heck 20 to 30 years ago computers would order their own parts. Today a robot will replace those parts lol.
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        • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
          Yep! I've written a lot of *nix shell scripts that saved me a lot of hours work. With the side benefit of the results being more accurate.

          Joe Mobley


          Originally Posted by Gonzosan View Post

          Ah yes. I remember back in my System Administration days where the older guys would say "Why do it the hard way when you can have a program do the work for you?". They would always gloat about having programs running in the background to do just about everything they could. It's why I love IT.
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          • Profile picture of the author SEOAiko
            Lol. I can relate to this. I've had some projects which required a lot of click throughs and because I want to save time, especially save myself from carpal tunnel syndrome, I decided to use macro. It works well but when I use it, I double check all important details that shouldn't be missed. Perhaps, I can't let the program handle all the work, no room for mistakes
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by Greedy View Post

        Hahaha link me

        Developer Outsourced Work To China - Business Insider
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
      I think there is a significant difference in that none of the company data was at risk, there were no outside people involved and he really was responsible for the results.

      Joe Mobley


      Originally Posted by RockingLastsForever View Post

      It's like the guy that outsourced his coding job to china and spent the day on Facebook. Instead of being given a promotion they fired him.
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      Follow Me on Twitter: @daVinciJoe
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  • Profile picture of the author wpxo
    I wonder what he's doing now? Would anyone hire him now?
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