Boss expects junior new hire to perform like an employee with 10 years of experience: ‘I don’t even know what my actual job description means anymore.’ – FAIL Blog

Bosses tend to expect all kinds of extra things, but it’s very puzzling how they sometimes assume that someone with no experience can and will provide results with the same expertise as someone with 10 years of experience would. I think this is due partly because most of the time they don’t know exactly what their employees do, or what constitutes the gist of their tasks, so they think anyone could perform them, and that people with experience are just earning extra money because they can. In any case, there is no point in trying to reason with a boss who just wants the job done, so we are left on our own, seeing what we can do to make the most of the situation and eventually start running the other way.