[jshowa1]

The problem is automation is never truly automated in most jobs. There's always things that go wrong, always changes being proposed, always explaining needing to be done. Sure, you may find it easy to automate a report or data entry, but what if that data changes or the format changes? Then you have to fix the code.

The code is almost never trivial either. It often involves integrating complex systems and making sure that they work which, if done right, involves writing several unit tests.

Using God is a poor excuse to determine ethics because there's no evidence one exists. It's especially a problem when you don't share the code because then, instead of creating improvement to the job for the company as a whole, you've written a pass to be lazy. The real job comes from supporting whatever you write to the masses. If you don't have any interest in that, you're simply selfish.

The problem is people react in different ways, but it seems like the most common way is to not tell anyone which in my mind is foolish because even if you do get fired, you've improved your skills enough to find a better job anyway. Not only that, I can just as easily come up with an example of someone getting promoted for automating job tasks.