I’ve been working at this job overall for almost 5 years, but this particular department for about 2. Normally it’s a steady, easy going department. However, there are some weeks where I get a heavy amount of workflow while also being assigned additional daily job duties that add on top of it. My management decided to surprise me yesterday and mention that I’d start training for their busiest job function next week.
Yet, there’s quite a few issues I see with this:
1: This particular department not only has the heaviest case volumes, but is most of the time always behind on completing these before the required time period set by management and is known to do a lot of excess overtime.
2: The coworker who most likely will be training me has been avoiding me and acting slightly passive towards me for almost a year due to outside of work drama we had when we used to be close friends (which causes a conflict of interest)
3: My salary amount does not compensate for the amount of work they’re expecting me to do. This would be my 4th job function I’d be trained for and I’ve only had a slight $0.55 pay raise at the beginning of the year without any consideration to what else I was trained for throughout 2022.
My question is how can I professionally explain these issues to my boss before I’m expected to start training on Monday? Although I’m working on instilling better professional boundaries for myself, I’m normally a chill team player with things. Except this is something I don’t have a good feeling about for both my work to life balance ratio and my mental health. Any advice would be very much appreciated!