So I work for an accounting firm, I am the second highest in the firm excluding the owner herself. We have three new workers in the firm who are clearly not educated in the field, but also lack initiative or basic common sense. I am 32 and my competent co-worker is 24, the other three women are late 40s to late 50s. NONE of them have a formal education in accounting, and none of them have any clue how to use office 365 or any accounting software.
I am not a supervisor or trainer or manager, no one at my firm is. We have our owner who is the boss and then everyone else. I was never trained when I was hired either, I was given an office and about 10 boxes with 6 years of bookkeeping that all needed to be completed and redone since it was all incorrect. Not once did anyone teach me anything, and everyone who did work there at the time was uneducated in accounting. I have since worked in all fields above bookkeeping and my job title and pay rate. Not to come off as cocky in anyway but I know more about accounting/taxes than my boss does. I have had to teach my boss basic functions in excel, QuickBooks and Windows….. I am also the one that has to fix any tech issues we might have, even though I am not hired tech?
I told the new workers when they started that I will train them in anything related to the offices structure (how, where, when, what colour folder, client information, client procedure etc.) but not in accounting or software as I felt that was outside of my job description to be a full on college professor for low wages. Now yes I can work for higher wages, but the reason I work where I work is because its close (gas is expensive – and marginally take home pay would be similar), its easy as fuck, and my hours are lenient (I have young kids and this is important. Changing my job could work, but I feel like I like what I do, and dont really want to change it.
So here is the issue, the third worker hired is a receptionist and went to the boss saying that I wasnt helping the new people. I explained to her that I payed a lot of money for my education, and put myself into a shit ton of debt to get the education that I have, and I do not feel like just handing it out for free. I also explained to her that I am not a trainer nor was I ever hired to train everyone, and that is when the boss basically came down and said that “We all need to be team players”, basically We ArE a FaMiLy HeRe…. like shut the fuck up we are NOT family.
Tomorrow I have a meeting with her to discuss my goals, and I know she is going to ask me to become a higher position (probably without a pay increase) because no one else can train these people – and my competent co-worker is reducing her hours immensely since she is doing capstone courses to complete her license, and tax season is slowing down. So how do I politely and professionally tell these people to fuck off? I do not want to move up in this company, and I do not want to change my position, I like what I am doing and I like that I dont have to work with incompetent old cranky women?