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Re:Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've autom... by 6stringmerc on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:20PM (#14657948)
Bingo. Besides, people are scared by humans capable of doing tasks much faster than previously thought. When in doubt, sandbag!

See also: the scene in the film "Big" when grown-up Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) gets the lecture from a Co-Worker (Jon Lovitz) to slow down his data entry as to not get everybody fired by going at a leisurely pace.

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Re:Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've autom... by afandian on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:30PM (#14658042)
The weird thing is, this was a very small business who hit the jackpot of high Google ratings. They weren't a heaving bureaucratic business.
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