> "Automate yourself out of a job” is a common sysadmin mantra after all
Not just sysadmin. I've been automating the hell out of tedious mundane tasks that are done by error prone humans, and only become more error prone as they get tired/bored of these mundane tasks. The automation essentially just becomes a new tool/app for the humans to use.
At this point of my experience doing this, employees scared of automation are probably employees that aren't very good at their job. Employees that embrace this type of automation are the ones that tend to be much better at their job.
I try to once in a while but, for example, last time I ended up being instructed to make a bunch of changes to make the automated tool make all the little mistakes that were usually done during the manual process, so that if the process needs to be done manually, they wouldn't be confused. For example: Setting up a volume of a particular size, and then, so they wouldn't have to bust out a calculator, they put in a nice round number that's nice for them to write (lots of zeros), meaning it wastes space.
The point of the automated tool is to do it quicker and correctly, and remove the need for a calculator (which just involves dividing one number by 4096 at some point, really). But I had to re-fuck-it, and as a bonus, they never used it at all. I doubt any of my colleagues remembers it exists.
Not just sysadmin. I've been automating the hell out of tedious mundane tasks that are done by error prone humans, and only become more error prone as they get tired/bored of these mundane tasks. The automation essentially just becomes a new tool/app for the humans to use.
At this point of my experience doing this, employees scared of automation are probably employees that aren't very good at their job. Employees that embrace this type of automation are the ones that tend to be much better at their job.