I am soliciting the help of tech savvy anti-workers to help me automate part of my job.
Every morning as part of my job I need to send out a series of stock emails. The system is clunky and tedious for no apparent reason. This takes 30-45 minutes out of my day, time I would much rather be napping, scrolling Reddit, or wasting my bosses time in other ways. Worst of all, my pay is heavily metric dependent and these emails are not part of those metrics. This is all time spend that essentially SUBTRACTS from the incentive portion of my pay (which is probably why they don’t spend money to fix it, because the we would also produce more and get more per unit pay.)
The system works as such, we use Salesforce (the most basic version) to compile customer emails. We then have numbered lists in sales force for each day since the customer was created and stock emails for each list. So I have a day 2 list and a day 2 email. I must manually, copy that list into an excel sheet, reformat it to correctly line up to excel (because that doesn’t happen correctly most times), open a word doc with the stock email for that day, create a mail merge, link that mail merge to the correct day in the excel that contains the names and emails, send the merge, and then make sure all the people in that list move forward one day ( so day 2 goes to day 3 so they get the day 3 email the next day).
This seems like a task the company could fully automate for pennies. But instead it eats a chunk of my soul and pay check every morning doing the most menial paper pushing imaginable, basically for the privilege to START getting paid after I’m done. I have see MUCH more complicated tasks automated by employees on this sub and others, but here is the twist, the work computer is almost completely locked down. Almost no ability to download anything that didn’t come with it. It’s standard Windows 10 business. Anyone have any idea on how I can automate this with only the standard programs that come with windows or are mentioned above?
If not, what is the bare minimum I would need to ask the company for permission to download?