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vong_assassin OP t1_j08ukt7 wrote

Reply to comment by lets_bang_blue in LPT Request: Current Job Description Being Changed to Include New Responsibility. How Do I Go About Asking For A Pay Increase? by vong_assassin

I'm a junior manager, so I'd have to speak with my Director to get us new staff. But our organization is fairly small and our department is even smaller. So that would be a huge ask.

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lets_bang_blue t1_j095oh8 wrote

That's the issue with small companies. You have 40 hours of work for one employee but now one day you grow and you have 50 hours of work that needs to be completed. Do you hire a new guy and give them each 25 hours or have that one guy do 50 hours? Neither option is great. At a large company, you have 10 employees doing 400 hours of work. You now get 420, ok everyone now works 42 hour weeks and no big deal. Once you hit 440 hours of work, you get a new employee and everyone is back to 40 hour weeks.

All we as employees can expect from a small company is they recognize your additional work and treat you accordinly and importantly, hire when it becomes completely unreasonable workload for one person. Sucks, but it's the nature of small companies and hopefully the benefits of a small workplace outweigh this downside

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vong_assassin OP t1_j099r9k wrote

The interesting thing about my job is that I will have lulls or avalanches in work. Most of my tasks involve liaising with external stakeholders, and on the side managing staff.

The thing about the new task is that there is no telling how much in a given year it will take of my time; it's responding to external complaints to a larger organizational process, so we could either get loads of complaints, or not at all. It's all dependent on various factors.

Which makes it ever-more hard to justify asking for compensation now given it may not involve a lot of work in the end.

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