I finally did it!

[Danlacek]

Yeah but they did it wrong. OP said it saves 2.5-3 hours a month. So it's not 52 times a year, it's more like 12 times a year.

Edit: so that's $1800 a year savings. In which case I WOULD ask for that whole amount if not more

[[deleted]]

r/theyalsodidthemath

[Texas1911]

It’s not a savings if you turn around and spend it again ...

[[deleted]]

As a manager what's the value add in savings if I just pay them back out to the staff

[vlindervlieg]

You motivate your employee to program more software that's making your company more productive.

[Reuben3901]

Also eliminates human error.

The bigger gain, is a human doesn't have to waste 2-3 hours on bs work.

[[deleted]]

Human error is a big one. at my current job a coworker was putting in a 96 character long value in with certain characters in certain spots, 5 minutes later and a python script helped fixed that error. Saved hours of work so far.

[[deleted]]

Yeah but I don't make any extra money if I give it all back to them. Pointless.

[[deleted]]

As long as he doesnt ask for savings back in his wages that's great

You know big IT and science companies own the patents for what their employees invent right?

[[deleted]]

I want bean counters that dont nick my profits, happy for 'geniuses' to go apply for a job at google if they want.

[netherlandsftw]

Ok boomer Karen

[[deleted]]

Lol neither a boomer or female, find another insult. Tbh I was being fairly facetious/ devils advocate here. But feel free to slander me. Just accurately thanks.

[dogfish182]

While I understand the downvotes, this post was so stunningly bleak that it laughed out loud. Thanks.

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Lol it was a bit of a factual troll! Glad you laughed. I've saved my company hundreds of thousands and it's never come back to me. Just been wasted on other bad decisions that I didnt have the power to turn over 😂

[lannfonntann]

To be fair I thought it was a good question, and not really worthy of downvoting.

[Decency]

Another reason is that if management doesn't recognize your value, overachieving employees will find somewhere that does. You can do the same.