Many years ago, one of the secretaries was on holiday and the big boss asked me to write a program that, unbeknownst to me at the time, completely automated her job away. When she came back she came to me in tears, couldn't believe I had stabbed her in the back like that. Well this story has a happy ending, the boss did it so he could promote her, he just thought it would be a nice surprise! But ever since then I have been very conscious of the power we have and I try to work on new things, not merely automating away old ones. I make the exception obviously for using automation to bring work back in-house that had previously been outsourced or offshored. Those jobs are already destroyed, and automation always improves the quality and turnaround.