You seem to be looking at this in the wrong light. You weren't asked to develop software, but manage/maintain & deploy servers. Walking in, studying the way a company works, writing software specifically to streamline their processes and then asking to be compensated for it is a deceptive tactic. As an employee, holding efficiency hostage is no way to conduct business.
However, if you develop the software as part of your own tool set, under copyrights that maintain ownership as you see fit, that helps you complete your job more efficiently then you are a good hire with a dynamic set of tools. Not only is that a great resume booster, but if you display to your upper management the results of your initiative along with a positive attitude about how your programming skills can help continue to develop tools that adapt to their environment, increase productivity & decrease downtime, then good management will increase compensation accordingly.
By retaining the software as your own, then you take the responsibility of maintaining it, and you can take it with you when you go or leave it behind without obligation to maintain or update.
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You seem to be looking at this in the wrong light. You weren't asked to develop software, but manage/maintain & deploy servers. Walking in, studying the way a company works, writing software specifically to streamline their processes and then asking to be compensated for it is a deceptive tactic. As an employee, holding efficiency hostage is no way to conduct business. However, if you develop the software as part of your own tool set, under copyrights that maintain ownership as you see fit, that helps you complete your job more efficiently then you are a good hire with a dynamic set of tools. Not only is that a great resume booster, but if you display to your upper management the results of your initiative along with a positive attitude about how your programming skills can help continue to develop tools that adapt to their environment, increase productivity & decrease downtime, then good management will increase compensation accordingly. By retaining the software as your own, then you take the responsibility of maintaining it, and you can take it with you when you go or leave it behind without obligation to maintain or update.