I automated my daily work tasks with a Python script 6 months ago.

Описание: I automated my daily work tasks with a Python script 6 months ago. It broke today, and I realized I completely forgot how to do my job.
I work in a fairly standard office role involving data entry and processing invoices. Every morning, I’m supposed to grab attachments from specific emails, parse the data, enter it into our legacy ERP system, and generate a daily report. It used to take me about 2 hours of mind-numbing clicking every morning.

About six months ago, I got fed up. I spent a weekend writing a Python script to do it all for me. It connects to Outlook, parses the PDFs, and uses an API to push the data where it needs to go.

Since then, my routine has been: arrive at work, get coffee, run the script, browse Reddit for 2 hours, then send the "All done!" email. My boss thinks I'm incredibly efficient and consistent.

Today, disaster struck. One of our vendors slightly changed their invoice layout. The script crashed with an error I hadn't handled.

I stared at the screen and felt a cold sweat. I realized I didn't remember the manual process. I didn't remember the login path for the specific module in the ERP system because the script handles the tokens. I had to frantically search through my old physical notebooks from my first week on the job just to figure out how to process one document.

It took me 4 hours to do what the script usually does in 3 minutes. My boss stopped by and asked if everything was okay because I looked stressed. I told him "just a complex batch of data today."

I’m currently fixing the parser at home so I don't have to actually work tomorrow. I feel like a fraud, but a very well-rested one.

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