Raw LLM Responses

The reality is that a LOT of jobs are like this. What they really need is someone effectively "on call." No one else in your office has the knowledge to operate or troubleshoot those scripts if something goes wrong, and it's an essential function that must work. Even if they knew you automated it, they might not want to fill your plate with 40 hours of makework because this function is critical if it ever needs your attention. The problems are (1) that being "on call" for this one task probably wouldn't provide the compensation you need to survive, (2) being on call would prevent you from getting other FT work you'd need, (3) we have a Puritanical cult telling us everyone must work 40 hour weeks to justify existing, and (4) there are caring professions and other productive workers who unfairly are kept working 40 hours a week for virtually no pay while we soak in administrative bliss. I've worked in places where the entire office quietly whispers about how no one works anywhere near 40 hours. They're just expected to be polite about it. You can't do anything to challenge it because it's unfair to the blue collar workers that our economy relentlessly screws already, and because it's a sin to the Puritans who think we live to work. This is why skyrocketing productivity hasn't resulted in less work for all of us. Secretly, it has, but we don't want to acknowledge that or distribute the free time fairly because it would loosen the grip of capitalism squeezing our hearts.