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    Sign of a shit manager/boss, usually.

    Good boss who sees this will go “oh thank God now you have your time freed up to do that thing you’ve been telling me we really need to get around to doing”, cuz there’s always at least like, 5 to 10 of those on the backlog anyways.

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      Seriously this.

      Been in the industry for going on 15 years. Never happened the way this comic makes it out to be.

      There is always work to be done. That employee ends up being a tech lead or IC and promoted.

      Companies don’t fire a whole team. They’ll find ways to maximize that solution that automates a lot of work. Oh, you can automate a DB? Can you automate more things or train others to do the same?

      And the whole team gets better and more creative work. I’ve watched my team evolve over and over. Ive jumped to a bunch of companies and continue seeing it happen.

      It’s hard enough getting good devs, so unless you work at a shit company, many hire real slow and often don’t fire devs unless they’re real bad apples.

      And finally - Who the fuck wants to spend 8 hours making SQL queries manually? If your 40 hour job can be automated with a script, you’re going to be unemployable regardless.

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        Yes, this is completely unrealistic. No tenured IT professional is just going to announce that they’ve doubled workflow efficiency overnight. They’ll slow play the improvements until it becomes absolutely necessary to reveal them, and then act like they’ve been putting in extra work when in reality they’ve been spending 6 hours a day writing new Quake 3 mods.

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      If they really needed to get around to doing that, the boss would’ve already hired another employee to do that task.

      Not doing so implies that paying someone just for that task wouldn’t be worth it.

      That does not change when a worker becomes available from somewhere else.

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        If they really needed to get around to doing that, the boss would’ve already hired another employee to do that task.

        This one made me laugh pretty hard, very great joke hahahaha

        (Almost always, no, no one was hired to do the thing, its been on the backlog for a year now but everyone is way too busy to do it)

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          If the boss has no problem keeping it on the backlog forever, then apparently it isn’t an issue worth dealing with.

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        You missed the part where the employee was the one saying it was important, not the boss. And a lot of those tasks aren’t things you can just hand off to a new person, anyway - e.g., tech debt on software.