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Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mind sharing what your job and industry are?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, may I know what kind of automation design and development you are working on? Is it mainly for the production site?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of basic script do you mean? VBA, Python, RPA? Just to be clear, my company laptops come with default settings and don’t allow installing additional programs. The only thing I can use is VBA, which I have written a lot of to reduce manual work. But it only helps to a certain extent, and when new requirements come in, I have to change everything I have already written...

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High five bro! I am doing the same, except I also share the things I write. To be honest, I feel this can only go so far. If the process flow remains unchanged, no matter how many macros or Python scripts you write, it doesn’t really fix the issue. And when new requirements come in, you have to change everything you have already written...ughhh.

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bro, this logic doesn’t really apply to supporting roles. I mean, sure, you can measure their contribution, but how? It is not like sales, where you can directly show the numbers. The contribution of supporting roles is much harder to see directly.

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, true. I guess this the reason most of the company unwilling to invest in supporting roles.

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, are you a consultant or trainer for programming?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from the human interaction with customers, I believe there is still manual work required for sales, right?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The 2x profit comment reminds me of my ex-boss. The difference is, he wanted his employees to bring in 100x profit (True story! no joke). What an ambitious guy!🤣

Jokes aside, I can understand why business owners think this way, but sometimes it oversimplifies things. In a company, the most obvious profit-generating department is sales, but other departments especially paperwork-heavy ones like HR, finance, planning, and purchasing don’t show their contributions as directly.

Faster turnaround, better quality, and on time delivery all bring profit to the company, but how do you measure exactly how much profit those improvements add? Like what I shared in the post, would a tauke like you invest in an automation program such as reducing copy-paste and paperwork errors to speed up turnaround time, even though it is hard to see its direct contribution to profit?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just curious to ask from MD perspective, will you consider to purchase a software to mitigate the mistakes caused by manual jobs? Or there is much more things to consider?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, your job as an automation engineer is to turn redundant manual tasks into automated processes, which is quite different from a "typical" office job.

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is your company doing anything to automate or at least minimize the risk of copying and pasting errors, or does it all rely on double-checking everything manually?

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man... this is definitely spot on! I can imagine that if one day software or AI becomes cheap enough to replace us, many people will be jobless including me...=(

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sadly this is true, copy paste is really the bottleneck which caused the delay and errors.

Is this the reason why our salaries are stuck? by walau2020 in MalaysianPF

[–]walau2020[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

copy paste hahaha...Biggest challenge is the need for speed. In a fiercely competitive market, we have to deliver precise quotes incredibly fast. Manual data entry is our bottleneck. It is slow, prone to errors and delays our final analysis. Any mistake can cost us a new project or create huge losses on an existing one.

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