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Programmer Automates His Job For 6 Years, Gets Fired, Realizes He Has Forgotten How To Code
An anonymous reader writes: A user on Reddit forum who goes by the alias FiletOfFish1066 (referred to as Mr. Fish hereafter) has been let go by his company after it was discovered that Mr. Fish hadn't actually done anything for six years. Umm, well he did something, but nothing new and productive, his Bay Area-based firm says, which paid him $95,000 (avg) each of these years. When he first got his software testing quality assurance job, he spent eight months automating all of the programming tasks. With all of his tasks fully automated by a computer, he was able to literally sit back and do whatever he wanted. Mr. Fish is pretty despondent in tone after he posted about getting fired from his job. He's upset because he has completely forgotten how to code, having relegated all that work to the computer, and now possesses no marketable skills. But, he also is not stressed financially, having saved up $200,000 during his 6-year long "career."
or perhaps he has skills in other areas... like perhaps, politics, since he could dupe his boss and get paid for 6 years.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
This man is our hero. Isn't that what we all dream about? Is this the ONE man who truly beat the tendency for automation to lead just to more work?
Relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1319/
No one ever makes things up on Reddit! Even if they did, surely they wouldn't delete the post and their account when the story blows up!
I'll be willing to believe a lot.
but a bay area person keeping a job and not getting laid off in 6 yrs?
yeah, something sure does smell fishy about that, right there.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Hmm. Been here 11 years now. *looks over shoulder* ...
I'm a PEOPLE PERSON, DAMMIT.
Physicists get Hadrons!