I work for a small retail company that is family owned and only has a few storefront locations. I was hired as a sales associate which is a very basic job, my job description is to help customers/ sell product, operate the register and POS, and do stocking and stuff like that. After a few months my manager started training me to do more manager level things like processing and receiving orders, placing orders, inventory, marketing and networking efforts and so on. There is an assistant manager position available and she was sort of pushing me into that role but the decision to promote me would have to come from the owner of the company. I was told that in order to be promoted I had to improve my personal sales numbers. So basically for the last few months I have been doing everything that the assistant manager would do, but still getting paid my sales associate wage.
How do I approach the subject of them giving me a raise for doing all this extra work?I don’t even care about the assistant manager title I just want to be paid more. I am concerned they will just say that my sales aren’t high enough or point out that I’ve called out a few times or something like that to avoid paying me more. Any advice on how to go about this would be very appreciated, thanks!