Employee denied 10% raise twice, then asked to write instruction manual for how to do his job: 'Sounds like something you ask someone to do shortly before firing them'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 19, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Normally, one doesn't feel like asking for a raise would lead to potentially getting fired.

When employees ask for raises, it's typically because they feel they have enough evidence to suggest that they have handled their work responsibilities well enough and for long enough to warrant further compensation. Of course, there are always exceptions, but employers need to consider the fact that when the people below them are asking for raises, they have usually crunched the numbers, assessed their own work, and compiled enough evidentiary support to advocate for themselves. 

Here, we have an employee who, despite multiple years of hard work, was denied a 10% raise twice in a row. Not long after, his boss asked for him to write an instruction manual detailing how to do his job. Sounds pretty clear like the boss is hoping to replace the employee so he doesn't have to hear about more raises. The joke's on him, though, because he is likely going to have trouble finding someone willing to take the same salary with no future adjustments.

For more stories like this, take a look at this post about a store manager's confusing interaction with a customer he thought was his employee.

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    "Boss told me write an instruction manual on how to do my job"
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    • I asked my boss 3 months ago for a raise (10%) and was told that the company couldn't afford it that quarter.
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    • Yesterday I renewed the request for a raise and was again told that the company couldn't afford it this quarter either.
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    Today my boss asked me to create an instruction manual on how do most of my daily tasks (boss named the tasks specifically).
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    Obviously sounds like something you ask someone do do shortly before firing them. How should I approach this "instruction manual" request?
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    Additi... 23h ago. • Take your time, you need to be "accurate" after all. And while taking your time, find a new job, and ditch their and leave them to deal with it
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    Monk... 23h ago • Either your job is going to get farmed out outside of the US or, more likely, you're writing the training manual for your soon to be hired replacement.
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    Start looking for a new job, petty me says do this before the manual is even 1/4 finished
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    • Argyl... 23h ago. "In order for me to create training materials, I would like to be offered a training position". What are they gonna do, fire you more?
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    Ulerica 23h ago • I'm taking my time, and the manual will be 99% useless corpo-talk 1% random thing the manager said, 0% how to do my job, and likely job hunting
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    Skulls... 23h ago. • Teach them wrong, as a joke.
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    trayne... 22h ago "I can't afford to create the instruction manual this quarter"
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    • raging... 23h ago • They're going to fire you. Tell them "sure, I'll start working on the documentation."
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    When they ask on progress, slow play it. Start with "Oh darn, I forgot, I've been busy, I'll get right on that." Then "yep, I started, I should be done by the end of next week".
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    All the while, don't work on it at all. Find yourself a new job, while dragging it out as long as possible at your current job.
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    When you do find a new job, call in sick at your old job. Keep dragging as long as you can. After you get better, then you're in a car
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    accident. Then your laptop crashed. Then then then then. Eventually they'll fire you. But it won't
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    matter because you've already been working your new job for two or three weeks, and have been collecting two paychecks (if salary).
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    Darth... 22h ago. • 1. slow play it. Sorry boss, been busy doing my actual job, so I only am getting 10 minutes a day t work on it.
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    2. find new job, plan for a no notice walk out if you get it.
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    3. Include only what he asked for but be as vague as possible with no insight from your experience.
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    Write it as if it was your boss writing it. Focus on results
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    4. leave something or someone out completely. Oh bob was in my mail list so it was automatic,
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    I never though about adding it to the instructions.
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    Include a hidden acronym like: Literal Instruction Controls and Knowledge for Meeting Your Basic Analytic Limited Liability Schedule.
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