TIFU: I automated my Job and then got caught
This happened a few years ago. I was pretty efficient at my job, and faster than my colleagues at getting reports done. We mostly wrote reports which had the same calculations and said very similar things
So I created a large database, linked it to Microsoft Excel, let excel calculate everything for me, automate various sentences for me and then export it to Microsoft Word.
The end result? In only 2 hours I could push out what took my colleagues 8 hours.
I decided to work only 2.5 hours a day, spending the other 5 doing anything I wanted to, YouTube, day trading, reading up investments or looking at silly memes. It was awesome.
One day a collegue took a romantic interest in me, Since I had nothing better to do and was single for a while so I gave it an honest shot.
The relationship went fairly well. She was lovely, really smart but like me really lazy too - except that didn't seemed to bother that her work performance was close to the bottom of the pack. In order to both impress her (and help her) I showed her what I do, and how it could be used to speed up her work. She didn't seem to take an interest at the time.
After some time I broke up with her, we tried our best but I wasn't feeling it as much as she was and I felt it would be better to end it sooner than later (she was already saying she loves me, I wasn't even close to using the word love). The breakup seemed somewhat peaceful.
Two days later I got called in HR at work for a disciplinary hearing. To my horror I was presented with screenshots of my activity of the previous days: memes, trading activity, news reading, YouTube and even a tally of how much hours I actually worked vs how much I wasted.
Turns out my ex shared my screen via Microsoft Skype when I went on a smoke break, recorded all my actions for the day and then reported me to HR.
I should've actually worked my hours in, I shouldn't have tried to impress my ex, and I definitely should have noticed my screen was being shared
TL; DR I automated my job, I worked only 2 hours. I got caught and almost lost my Job
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