Should this employee be expected to inherit responsibilities that were never part of her job?
An IT employee is pushing back after management appeared to have assumed they would take over the workload of a departing coworker. The coworker was originally responsible for timekeeping, but eventually started handling payroll and business operations, expecting a promotion that never came. Now that he quit, the manager is expecting the OP to take those extra duties.
How unfair is it to up your daily workload because someone who took these extra responsibilities is quitting? This is not the OP’s fault whatsoever, and she should not be the one completing these tasks without having a promotion or extra compensation to make up for it.
The worst part of all is that the manager is now saying that the new role has all of these extra responsibilities, and that’s why she has to be able to complete them. In her defense, what does payroll have to do with IT? Nothing as far as I’m concerned.
I stand firmly with her in this story since this extra workload is not something she should be worrying about. Once in my lifetime, I started to please a boss that I had by taking over a bunch of extra stuff that was not related to my position. Although I ended up making more money, the amount of work and the stress that it caused me was not worth it. That’s why there are detailed job descriptions that outlines were someone’s work starts and where it ends, so there’re no misunderstandings.
Author: Kayitsi.com
