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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/TeresaB_Martin on 2026-04-06 21:39:30+00:00.
so my boss just randomly put me in charge of teaching some “efficiency system” and im sitting here like what system dude i literally just copied an old excel thing and changed numbers like 3 weeks ago i was half asleep on zoom eating those cheap Lidl cookies and he asked how i did the report so fast and i panicked and said some bs about “automation workflow” which now sounds so stupid typing it but he got all quiet and was like huh thats actually smart and i remember thinking ok cool he bought it lets never talk about this again
but no next day he pings me like hey can you use that system on this other thing and i swear i stared at the screen for like 5 min just kinda frozen and then said yeah sure because what else do you even say at that point so i just did everything manually again but faster and now suddenly im “the guy” and hes cc’ing me everywhere calling me our process guy like bro i dont even process my own emails properly and then this coworker books a call with me and i kinda black out a bit during it just saying words like batching and friction reduction like im some productivity youtuber and she just nodding the whole time like im dropping wisdom and im thinking oh no she believes me too and today in the team call TL;DR
he just casually announces ill run a workshop next week like its already decided and everyone looks at me and i just nod like an idiot because what am i gonna do say actually im a fraud in front of 12 people and after that some dude messages me like finally someone fixing this mess and i feel even worse because now theres expectations and i dont even have anything real its just faster copy paste and vibes and now im stuck choosing between admitting i made it all up which makes me look like a clown or somehow inventing an actual system in like a week which sounds impossible or just doubling down again and hoping no one asks real questions which they probably will and the worst part is my boss actually trusts me now like more than before which makes this whole thing feel even more messed up idk i kinda did this to myself tbh but also why did he believe me so fast like who hears “personal automation system” and doesnt ask a single followup question