While workplace automation can help delegate tedious, soul-sucking tasks, workers have plenty of reasons to fear automation. Displacement. Redundancy. Entire positions or career paths rendered obsolete. But what if we could use this to our advantage to automate our own jobs and get paid the same? One legend figured out a way to do exactly that and they got away with it for five years. All they had to do was hire some computer wiz to write some software that could automate hours of data-entry. Sadly, the brilliant grift inevitably came to an end for anti-work hero u/Cynicusme when the company finally developed their own software that replaced OP’s data-entry position. Keep scrolling for the whole impressive story.