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I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by Miner49er »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

HN really lives in a some sort of wealthy bubble. $90k is plenty of money to save for retirement in most of the country. If it's not, then the majority of people in the US will never be able to retire.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by StephenSmith »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

You're right, but inflation continues to outpace wages, so without some, albeit extreme, push from the workers' side, this will continue to get worse.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by serverholic »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

Nobody asks to be born and society is setup to extract as much as possible from you until you die. Fuck society, fuck humanity, fuck productivity, and fuck work. It can all burn for all I care.

I'm saving as much money as I can to escape wage slavery then just coasting the rest of my life without living another productive second.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by leetcrew »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

> $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money

what? $90k is plenty for a frugal person to have a reasonable retirement. they're not gonna be able to do it at 35, but mid fifties is very viable.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by darkwizard42 »

null_object wrote: post #5

I think most of us are feeling some schadenfreude because the poster is ripping-off a law-firm - but the disappointment for me is that (for the most part) (s)he seems to be treating it as an 8-hour day where (s)he simply skips work - which I would definitely find totally soul-destroying. I saw in the follow-up comments that there are is some "passion project" that's being worked on, but apparently it wasn't 'relevant…

Which is why, like most things posted on that subreddit (and online communities in general) should be approached with a bunch of skepticism.

The post reeks of "yeah, that happened" vibes.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by nlh »

binarytox1n wrote: post #7

Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing. With all the media attention the AntiWork subreddit has gotten lately that brings more karma farmers and therefore more fiction. It's an entertaining read, but not likely true.

Funny, I had this exact same thought. The red flags for me were their use of “clock in” and “shift”. Those are not concepts generally in play for IT staff at law firms.

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Post by neom »

arbitrage wrote: post #4
neom wrote: post #3

"For a while I felt guilty, like I was ripping the law-firm off, but eventually I convinced myself that as long as everyone is happy there's no harm done. I'm doing exactly what they hired me to do, all of the work is done in a timely manner, and I get to enjoy my life. Win win for everyone involved. " Not a win for the COO/GM/CFO/FP&A/whatever who is tasked with finding efficiencies in the business and doing optimiz…

Oh no, won't someone think of the businesses?

Depends on if you care about other people I suppose. The West subscribes to capitalism as the modality to move society forward, so yes, till that changes, do think of the business imo.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by echelon »

binarytox1n wrote: post #7

Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing. With all the media attention the AntiWork subreddit has gotten lately that brings more karma farmers and therefore more fiction. It's an entertaining read, but not likely true.

> Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing.

I didn't take this at your original meaning, because my mind fixated on this sentence.

Social media and our surroundings create an environment for either production or consumption. They can't be totally geared towards consumption, or they run out of fuel.

Communities like ArtStation, DeviantArt, etc. are incredibly focused on the creative aspect. Wikipedia, Hacker News, /r/slatestarcodex, and a bunch of other forums tend to foster inspired writing. Open source, Github...

I want to build more communities like these that focus on high-effort, high-impact creation and learning. It would be really great if it were cross-discipline. I imagine game or world-building communities where people from different backgrounds can contribute to constructing elaborate narratives.

We need more of these and fewer dopamine-optimized clickstreams.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by wonderwonder »

neom wrote: post #3

"For a while I felt guilty, like I was ripping the law-firm off, but eventually I convinced myself that as long as everyone is happy there's no harm done. I'm doing exactly what they hired me to do, all of the work is done in a timely manner, and I get to enjoy my life. Win win for everyone involved. " Not a win for the COO/GM/CFO/FP&A/whatever who is tasked with finding efficiencies in the business and doing optimiz…

Are you really saying that the poster should tell them about his script, which they will then take and use, removing the need for OP? So OP who as far as anyone at the firm is concerned is doing a terrific job should sacrifice his position and take a financial hit so that the COO/GM can get a nice bonus? That makes no sense at all.

Re: I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Post by micromacrofoot »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #15

Love the poster's ingenuity and hate his attitude, and the antiwork subreeddit. Attitude: $90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement, particularly if they encounter major expenses. He should be spending his new free time either developing a side-hustle, a business, or delivering additional value for his employer for which he must insist on additional compensation. I used to be…

>$90,000 per year isn't likely to generate enough money for this person's retirement

uhhh... what? that's almost double the average US salary

>Life isn't even close to fair and some societies and people understand how to work with that better than others do.

"Life isn't fair" is not an argument against striving for fairness. My understanding of the antiwork people is that they think they're being more productive than what they're being paid for, and often being treated poorly along the way. There's data backing that up, and it doesn't seem ridiculous to try and recapture some of that.

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