Boss expects junior new hire to perform like an employee with 10 years of experience: 'I don't even know what my actual job description means anymore.'

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  Two models in suits representing the exact moment our friend, the junior employee, got hired without knowing he should perform as someone with 10 years of experience

• My boss hired me as a junior, but expects a decade of experience and just threatened my job.

  
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  Female model holding a cup with the phrase "like a boss" on it, representing how our protagonist should approach things

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• Yeah, the “we just might just tell you that we don’t need you” is all he paradoxically needed to know; he is probably young and very nervous about losing the job; that’s the cruel part, because it’s not just a case of learning stuff and integrating it, some of us can’t afford to lose a job and be chill about finding another, of course upskilling at that rate will be useful in the longrun, but at what cost?. I always come across stories like these and get so confused as to why bosses decide to hire employees who aren’t fit for a position, expect them to do something they weren’t told to do, and end up playing with people’s economy like that.

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  A male model representing the employee trying to gain 10 years of experience in a couple months

• I can understand that managers want the best for the company period, but then stop hiring junior workers and start investing in people who can deliver what you want. If you hire an employee with no experience, do so knowing that you are investing in order to achieve your productivity goals in the long run and not ‘by tomorrow.’

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• Bosses tend to expect all kinds of extra things, but it's very puzzling how they sometimes assume that someone with no experience can and will provide results with the same expertise as someone with 10 years of experience would. I think this is due partly because most of the time they don’t know exactly what their employees do, or what constitutes the gist of their tasks, so they think anyone could perform them, and that people with experience are just earning extra money because they can. In any case, there is no point in trying to reason with a boss who just wants the job done, so we are left on our own, seeing what we can do to make the most of the situation and eventually start running the other way.

• We’ve all realized by now that he has been warned and should try to run away as fast as he can; apparently, this is the way things go around here.

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