Celebrate with me because tomorrow is my last day at my shit job. There is a phenomenom I'd like to discuss that I am so over.
I am 24 years old and have worked as an administrative secretary for 1.5 years at this place. But I consistently am made responsible for Social Media postings, website backend and IT work.
Why? Those tasks aren't even close to my job description and FAR above my pay range. I come from a degree in political science, I don't have any formal IT or web design experience. But of course, I am at least 10 years younger than everyone else, so it is assumed that anything “with the computer” is my job.
I am so tired of having to figure out coding problems or work on data migration because nobody else even tried and just gave it to me. I am tired of being called into other offices without regard to if I'm available to fix computer problems or explain how to use programs. I don't know the answer myself 90% of the time and have to figure it out myself, which they never even try to do. And I'm tired of doing all this on a secretary's salary on top of my normal work!
I know that it is a modern phenomenom that workers are expected to work 6 jobs for the salary and in the hours of one. This intersection is just especially interesting (and bothersome) to me. Does this happen to other people on this sub?
Oh, PS, of course I also constantly get assigned work regarding gender equality, which is also not in my job description. But I am a young queer person, so why hire an actual specialist when I do it for cheap.