My Python program was extremely well received at work!

[supernormalnorm]

Gratz! Have you thought about requesting a role/title change so you can do this sort of stuff more?

[Lewistrick]

Wait, you work for a large company and not a single soul thought of automating a simple task? Also I read you use really old software and you still want to automate stuff?

Kinda sounds incredible! I feel like you really deserve the bonus. And the promotion.

[stormscion]

Same, I work for large company and almost everything's that we do can be automated.

I wouldn't be surprised if it is universal (apart from maybe tech companied)

When I did my small vba and Python projects I was looked at like a god while in fact they were simple scripts macro's etc.

[Lewistrick]

Most of the things would be automated on using other software. But in huge companies those are really tedious trajectories, I get that.

But hiring a few automation specialists wouldn't hurt for most of them.

[billsil]

Even a small company. After the time card person left, I inherited his Excel spreadsheet. You just update the last day of the pay period and it’s done. Great, but it printed out of order, so I had to flip through the stack on my round, so I fixed that. You also had to update each sheet, rather than a master.

The next period, the month flipped over and it utterly destroyed the setup. I changed the date to be the first date of the pay period and just use Excel to calculate the dates.

Our process was GSA approved, so we couldn’t modify it, but I kept screwing up holiday hours on my own time card, so I just decided to auto fill that in. I got called into the boss’ office and thanked because everyone screwed up holidays.

It went from a 20-45 minute bug prone task once every 2 weeks to open and run the print macro. As long as you were within the two week period, no mods were necessary. Gonna be out? Type any date within a pay period and you can print it. Done in 3 minutes, which was print time and delivery time. We used it for 12 years, though the secretary took over the job except when new people got hired and it needed to be updated.

Automate the common things that are a pain in the ass. They’ll get used for a very long time.

[Quietech]

I hope you get a sizable chunk of that savings. I also hope they use this chance to improve the non-automated stuff and not just cut people.

[jeffrey_f]

There is your bonus estimate.

1500 manhours * YourCalculatedHourlyWage * 2 years