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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by agumonkey on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:00AM (#21257019)
Note that this wasn't an engineering position, just an input operator gig, so they weren't hired for skills nor due to network. It just happen that we were all in an Excel Hell and I happened to VBA myself out of some pits.

There's a weird social dynamic that I don't fully understand.. maybe it's fatigue causing lack of desire to learn how to make your job easier and feel inferior .. who knows

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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by philpem on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:07AM (#21257047)
It could well be a fear of automation.

Automating part of the process may reduce the drudgery, but there's an existential fear from some people -- that if a part of their job can be automated, they'll be made redundant. Or the boss will ask them to do more work, faster, for the same pay.

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Re:Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorder... by agumonkey on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:44AM (#21257220)
The automation seems unlikely (I wasn't fixing the whole task, more like removing pain points) but the potential workload increase is very probable
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