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With the economy in its recession the way it is, and yes, it is a recession, finding a job these days is hard. Finding an employer that doesn’t take advantage of the job market by overworking its employees, is even harder.  It all starts innocently enough. Let’s see if you can follow along.

Woman applies for a job  as a fry cook. Job description is for her to cook and maintain anything going into the fryer pans. Within the week, the store gets busy, so she is asked to jump onto the burger line and help out. She does. Now someone  calls off, so the woman is bumped up to the burger line, with no jump in pay of course. Another week goes by, the cashier calls off, so the woman is asked to take a few orders. She does, with no pay increase again of course. She does so well on the register, she is bumped up. Now she is still in charge of the fryer pans, jumping in on the burger line, and now the cash register, all without extra compensation. In the meantime, she is also training other employees, taking customer complaints, and other “extras”. All without a pay raise.

Man applies for a retail job. Job description is stocking inventory, ringing out customers, phones, and sometimes taking website phone orders. Within two weeks, man is taking orders non stop on the website, learning the shipping end of the business, counting inventory, and other jobs that fall under the managers job title. All without pay raise of course.

It goes without saying that an employer expects more out of his employees, but what happened to compensation, bonuses, and pay raises for those workers that do step up to the plate? Simply because the economy is weak, and good jobs are hard to find, it seems to me employers are taking advantage of the workers they do have. Working a person in a job that normally would take three people, and now using one person. Why not give that hard working woman a pay raise to cover that? Because employers know you won’t up and quit, not with good jobs at an all time low.

That’s me right now. I am stuck in a job that I actually like. But I’m doing the work of three, sometimes four people, and there are days I am so overworked, I feel I accomplished nothing. My boss in the meantime is harping on the fact that we need this done, and this needs done, and I keep telling him to hire at least two more people and it could be done. If this keeps up, and I don’t see a pay increase soon, I will hunt for another job. I quit one job a few months ago partially for this very reason. I was doing manager work, for months, with no compensation or pay increases.

It’s one thing to have to keep a job, yes I do have children to support. But I’ll be damned if I am going to keep being taken advantage of without more money. I am a hard ass worker, these bosses know it and that’s why they want me around. Now it’s time to add some money to that.

If you are an employer, and you have workers that do step up, and go the extra mile, let them know. Words just aren’t enough. If you expect more from them, they have the right to expect more from you.

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