I automated a full time job before it could be advertised [View all]

[Whotheone]

I work as an Accountant and last week my Manager let me know that some new work had been passed to our team which would require hiring a new full time admin person (it was estimated that our team would see an increase of 160-180 hours of work).

The work was essentially transcribing tens of thousands of lines of data from our suppliers website who doesn't permit anyone access to their databases, only allowing them to view the data through their website.

So I went home and came back then next day with some freshly written Python code and now all that work has been fully automated, can run in the background and completes all the work in an hour.

The funny part of this story is that I forgot to ask for a raise before I handed over the code.