TLDR; what options do you have when a company wants to keep adding to your workload? (ONTARIO, CANADA)
I am an office administrator. Basic data entry and route scheduling, with customer service.
Lately my corporate office has been cracking down on safety – which our division has been lacking in the 5 years I’ve been here.
Essentially a lot has gone downhill because our boss refuses to most of the work he should do, and pushes it onto other people. He refuses to do any computer work – and makes our other office admin do it for him. She begrudgingly does so, but refuses to speak up for herself. So she gets lumped with more work until she’s spread so thin that everything else suffers. Lately she’s at her capacity so I’ve been worried that he was going to do the same to me.
One of my bigger bosses came down to address these issues and requested a few minor additions to my role which I accepted, sensing that this was a small ask.
I agreed to upload certain completed materials to our safety program because I felt it was well within my job duties.
Then, my boss approached me telling me our monthly facility inspection was also my job. This entails more than just data entry, but an actual evaluation of the site and safety protocols.
We got into a big argument about it and he justified it by saying my job is “evolving”. I said well then if my role is evolving I want to have it in writing exactly what that entails.
Is my only strong point to demand any changes in writing and – at that time – my only options are to either accept the change or decline and face termination?