Man Tricks His Employer By Using A Bot To Do His Night Shift For Five Years

Five years is a long time to keep a secret at work, especially when the secret is that you are barely doing the job at all. One Reddit user says he turned a night shift data entry role into something much easier by automating the repetitive parts and then letting the code handle the routine work.

Posted to r/antiwork, the story centers on Redditor u/Cynicusme, who says the setup started with a few tedious tasks and slowly turned into a system that ran on its own. He claims he only had to check in occasionally to make sure everything was still working, which left him with plenty of free time and a steady paycheck.

Now the post has people debating whether this was clever, dishonest, or both, and the details only get more interesting from there.

This Redditor is a genius who made use of all his brains and made money while doing nothing.

u/Cynicusme

This man here spills the tea about how he earned his wages with ease.

u/Cynicusme

This job, in its own right, sounds so simple—no offense to those doing it.

u/Cynicusme

So this man spent his two months' salary so that he wouldn't have to do anything else for a lifetime.

u/Cynicusme

Now, working from home has its own advantages, and he made the best use of it.

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And with time, he even updated his AI so he didn't even need to spend those five minutes checking it.

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To tell the truth, the AI this person used was doing such a remarkable job.

u/Cynicusme

He didn't have to quit because he was technically doing nothing at all and still getting paid.

u/Cynicusme

Wow, making these alterations just so nobody notices is truly the mind of a highly intellectual person.

u/Cynicusme

This is like the AITAH fight over cooking gourmet meals for a boss’s dog, Bella, instead of work duties, where the conflict was pleasing Bella versus job expectations.

This had me speechless, and this guy is on top of his game even though he is playing a dirty one.

u/Cynicusme

Four years—four long years—were needed to come up with new software to replace OP's data entry position.

u/Cynicusme

How could you even talk about it to someone while at work? If he told his family, they would have made him do another job for extra pay.

u/Cynicusme

The regional manager did miss out on something that could be really beneficial to the company.

u/Cynicusme

Exactly, and while doing this, he could have worked elsewhere to earn a double income.

u/Cynicusme

True that! It's like he needs to be insulted and appreciated at the same time.

u/Cynicusme

Well, this is technically not wrong; the company didn't specify how it had to be done—they just wanted it done, and he did it!

u/Cynicusme

He deserves a hats-off for pulling it off for five long years without anyone noticing it, and instead, he got a pay raise.

u/Cynicusme

Well, leaving the job would most definitely be heartbreaking because who doesn't want to earn while doing nothing?

u/Cynicusme

He did win it all while enjoying his life both during the day and at night!

u/Cynicusme

This guy is no less than a legend. The corporate world sucks our blood, but this guy refused to let his be sucked.

u/Cynicusme

Yeah, this easy job just grabbed the interest of all the people reading this article, and they might even try to do it at some point.

u/Cynicusme

So basically, he was working somewhere else, and his passive income just stopped.

u/Cynicusme

Well, this is no less than an innovation. And the good thing is, he nailed it every day!

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Some people do their jobs as directed and with a lot of honesty, which can be stressful and challenging at times and may drain all their energy. But some lazy legends try to find alternative ways to do their jobs correctly but with dishonesty.

This story is a classic example of "don't work hard, work smart," and this is what we all should do. Share this with your friends and family and encourage them to do the same.

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