Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
The "I don't get paid enough to do this" excuse is a cop out
I dont necessarily agree. In some jobs I actually applaud people for taking this tact, even if it costs them their jobs. There are tons of jobs without much room to grow, and limited income potential. Why would these people want t do more than their job description for a piddly paycheck? No thanks. Good on them to take the situation to a point where it is visible and it either costs the business reputation or profit..
Not saying in any way that everyone deserves to make $x in salary for knowing next to nothing and doing a poor job. But there have been situations where people are doing their jobs, obviously do a good job. but are so overstressed or overbbuurrdened in what they must do/perform, that they really dont get paid enough.
True, I actually quit a fairly well paying job after a manager who made more than twice what I did was fired (for no good reason), and his workload was piled on to me with no replacement in sight. It wasn't what I signed up for, it wasn't what I was trained for, and frankly in that case I didn't get paid enough for what I was doing. I was a parts manager being burdened with HR issues, accounting issues, logistics issues, etc...while still being expected to run everything in the parts department. After four months of that, I was burning out and had enough. Four months is plenty of time to hire someone, so obviously they were just trying to wring everything out of me that they could. No thanks. That was a highly, exceptionally dysfunctional company though. A short time after I quit, the parent company came in and cleaned house at the top. The people who were working me to death all got fired.
What I meant is "I don't get paid enough to do this" isn't a good excuse for performing poorly at a job you signed up for. If you accept the job and the offered compensation, then turn around and say "I don't get paid enough for this," it's a cop out. If someone really feels that way, they should look for a different job. There are a lot of people who just show up to do the bare minimum and collect a check, and I think that's a pretty sorry way to work. I'm not really even passionate about what I do now, but I still give it my all when I go into work and don't make excuses or try to find an easy way out. As long as the task at hand falls within my job description that I signed up for, even remotely, I'm fine with it. It's when a company turns around and piles on completely unrelated tasks on top of an already full workload that it becomes a valid excuse, but that kind of falls under "I don't have time for this." I don't even mind doing something outside of my job description as long as I am trained on it properly, and I actually have the time to do it while accomplishing the things central to my actual job as well.
