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in thread Perl can get you fired, if you suck at (your job/perl)

i wasn't the one who told you that, but it was true of my last job. i worked there for about two years. the last year i spent doing mostly non-work-related development because i had automated all of my job functions and had nothing left to do (well, practically nothing). guilt eventually got me to find a new job where I could feel like i deserved the paycheck i got

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Re: coding yourself out of a job
by blakem (Monsignor) on Aug 06, 2001 at 00:13 UTC
    Wasn't Thomas Edison rumored to have done that as a telegraph operator? He automated the required hourly 'ping' that let people know he was alive and awake. This gave him time to sleep, if I remember correctly.

    -Blake