Hello PF,
My honest apology for the noob question, but that's my first full-time job and I really want another opinion on this.
I work in an office that represents manufacturers of scientific equipment. It's a small company that consists of 8 people including me: 3 managers (CEO, accountants and another manager, they are actually a father-mother-daughter family), 2 engineers (those that do all the science) and 3 clerks - each is responsible for following on orders from America (me), Europe (co-worker that quit), and Asia (some nice person).
As I said, the clerk responsible for Europe had yesterday filled in his resignation letter. It's expected him to work there until he ends training a new employee, but he didn't sign anything regarding this and his last few days were very ugly, so I'm afraid he won't give a shit and will just quit.
Important to mention, since I work with USA that their office hours have just about 1 overlapping hour with us, I have a finite work every day that I can finish in about 20-50% (usually about 30%) my working hours. But since Europe has 100% overlapping hours with us, the other worker has work throughout the entire day, with some occasional breaks. I'd say he has about no more than 30% free time each day.
I only work there through my gap year (finished high school last year. Needless to say I'm the youngest there by a 12 years difference, but I don't think it affects their judgement as it seems they already forgot about it), started at the end of December and my last month will be July (Managers know).
It takes some time to get the hang of working there, as they have these shitty old-school programs like dBase that runs on DOS (Gotta write those stupid C commands), and there are some procedures you need to know before you can execute them properly. The work in front of Europe is obviously harder than the work in front America. Now, after over 5 months in the company, I believe I can do the Europe work properly (I replaced him many times when he was "sick", and there wasn't too much of a difference besides the mass).
As they are looking for a new employee, I believe it'll be harder for them to find an employee that will properly replace him, than me. I've wanted to suggest The following:
I will do both works, his & mine, all while getting his salary (obviously larger than mine), and they will look for an employee that will replace me. Once hired, I will train the new employee for my current position (America) and will work solely in front of Europe. Once I quit, the new employee will replace me and they will hire a new one to work in front of America (whom will be trained by either me or the new worker). I hope what I'm saying makes sense.
I obviously want more money as I definitely feel I'm capable of doing so. The other alternative is asking for a raise as long as I replace him, which will also prevent them from using me.
I'm seriously afraid I will end doing both works until my last month there, and then I will do both works AND train 2 new employees, all while getting the same paycheck.
So I guess I just want some insight on the matter, and perhaps a different approach?
Submitted April 27, 2017 at 02:47AM by Dolorouz http://ift.tt/2qhtH13
