Hi Priya,
Please remember it is your life and no one can actually advise you. The only thing others can do is guide you. You know the actual difficulty you are facing and can see you are really fed up with your current boss and job. Why don't you tell your boss you are overloaded with work and, moreover, not comfortable working at the reception?
Meanwhile, start looking for a change because it seems he is trying to exploit you. But just a request, don't leave the job until you get another opening because you will have greater bargaining power when you are going for an interview.
All the best,
Anita
From India, Mumbai
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128Please remember it is your life and no one can actually advise you. The only thing others can do is guide you. You know the actual difficulty you are facing and can see you are really fed up with your current boss and job. Why don't you tell your boss you are overloaded with work and, moreover, not comfortable working at the reception?
Meanwhile, start looking for a change because it seems he is trying to exploit you. But just a request, don't leave the job until you get another opening because you will have greater bargaining power when you are going for an interview.
All the best,
Anita
From India, Mumbai
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Ask anyone. In 9 out of 10 cases, they will tell you what you tell about your boss - that the boss does not understand, does not appreciate, flogs the running horse, etc. That is the reality.
But the post of Mr. Saswatbanerjee sums the position up nicely. It is worth pondering about that.
From India, Madras
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But the post of Mr. Saswatbanerjee sums the position up nicely. It is worth pondering about that.
From India, Madras
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Hi Priya,
In order to get good impression you might obey all his orders initially, but now as per your words you are not able to take it. So don’t worry. For every problem there was a solution,
If you follow few things u can easily escape from that situation.
1) Being your boss it is his responsibility to describe your KRAs and KPIs, so ask for that then he will get a clear picture on HR roles and Responsibilities. Henceforth whenever he wants to assign such tasks he will think.
2) Send a daily report to him ,what all you have done in your shift. He will understand your work pressure.
3) Never trash on your boss directly or indirectly, which creates negative impression on you.
4) Do your boss know that you are pursuing MBA, if not let him know that first, then he will understand the career that what exactly you are looking for, and he will try to assign HR related work.
5) Last but not least take each and every problem as an opportunity for learning, Remember, you need to be more stronger enough to face and solve your problems, then only you can solve employee problems ….
From India, Hyderabad
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In order to get good impression you might obey all his orders initially, but now as per your words you are not able to take it. So don’t worry. For every problem there was a solution,
If you follow few things u can easily escape from that situation.
1) Being your boss it is his responsibility to describe your KRAs and KPIs, so ask for that then he will get a clear picture on HR roles and Responsibilities. Henceforth whenever he wants to assign such tasks he will think.
2) Send a daily report to him ,what all you have done in your shift. He will understand your work pressure.
3) Never trash on your boss directly or indirectly, which creates negative impression on you.
4) Do your boss know that you are pursuing MBA, if not let him know that first, then he will understand the career that what exactly you are looking for, and he will try to assign HR related work.
5) Last but not least take each and every problem as an opportunity for learning, Remember, you need to be more stronger enough to face and solve your problems, then only you can solve employee problems ….
From India, Hyderabad
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Dear Ms. Trivedi,
For your kind information, sometimes our higher authorities test our attitude. So, I can simply explain to you that this is a part of testing your attitude levels. You just need to observe for a few days without any rush.
Thank you.
From India, Hyderabad
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For your kind information, sometimes our higher authorities test our attitude. So, I can simply explain to you that this is a part of testing your attitude levels. You just need to observe for a few days without any rush.
Thank you.
From India, Hyderabad
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Dear Priya,
I understand your problem as an HR professional. I do not agree with others. They are all giving goody-goody impractical lectures. Today your boss is asking you to sit at the reception; tomorrow he will ask you to stand at the gate as a security guard. This is just not acceptable.
You are a postgraduate-qualified person and have mentioned that you are looking after HR functions like recruitment, payroll, and administration. These are important HR functions. Someone dealing with these functions should not sit at the reception. That is the job of a receptionist, which is a completely different job profile and can even be done by a matriculate. An HR professional has some dignity.
Please tell him politely that with your qualifications and the job responsibilities you are handling, you should not be made to sit at the reception. They should identify somebody else with lesser qualifications for the receptionist job. If he insists, you may do the job under protest until you find another job. With your qualifications and experience, I am sure you can find another job.
One thing I have observed is that you need to improve your English.
I wish you all the best.
Shiladitya
From India, Mumbai
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I understand your problem as an HR professional. I do not agree with others. They are all giving goody-goody impractical lectures. Today your boss is asking you to sit at the reception; tomorrow he will ask you to stand at the gate as a security guard. This is just not acceptable.
You are a postgraduate-qualified person and have mentioned that you are looking after HR functions like recruitment, payroll, and administration. These are important HR functions. Someone dealing with these functions should not sit at the reception. That is the job of a receptionist, which is a completely different job profile and can even be done by a matriculate. An HR professional has some dignity.
Please tell him politely that with your qualifications and the job responsibilities you are handling, you should not be made to sit at the reception. They should identify somebody else with lesser qualifications for the receptionist job. If he insists, you may do the job under protest until you find another job. With your qualifications and experience, I am sure you can find another job.
One thing I have observed is that you need to improve your English.
I wish you all the best.
Shiladitya
From India, Mumbai
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. My English is good enough; it's just that I had posted this in a hurry, thus there are some typing errors. I have corrected it. Kindly check the first comment.
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Priya
From India, Ahmedabad
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Thanks for the reply. My English is good enough; it's just that I had posted this in a hurry, thus there are some typing errors. I have corrected it. Kindly check the first comment.
Regards,
Priya
From India, Ahmedabad
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This is, in fact, a very interesting and pertinent discussion on an issue into which an achiever may unknowingly slip.
Harsh, you have given excellent clues on how to deal with the situation.
Gaurav, you, in fact, hit the nail on the head with your wonderful analysis.
Saswatabenerjee's reality check will be of help to Priya in making up her mind.
Gaurav and other members, here we do not know whether the boss of Priya is a shining jewel in the business who is merely a professional, or a shrewd jewel in the business who is out to exploit an achiever to the hilt at no extra cost to him as Shiladitya apprehended, or it is the limiting beliefs of Priya about meeting challenges that make her complain about her boss.
In the first case, there may not be a problem to deal with the issue, and here Harsh's clues will come in handy. A truly professional boss will definitely understand the difficulties as he does not want to improve one function at the cost of a key function like HR. In the last case i.e., case no. (3), it does not appear to be the case with Priya, given her capabilities. If she harbors any such beliefs, she has to do a reality check by herself and change them.
The real problem is with the second case where the boss is a shrewd jewel who is exploitative. He may ask the performing employee to walk the extra mile every day, and if the employee consents every time to walk, he or she may, after a lapse of time, have to walk not one mile but many miles barefoot and may collapse, being tired. How to preempt such circumstances?
1) Whether the talented employee should not raise expectations in his/her boss?
2) If raised expectations in the boss about her competencies unknowingly in the initial stages of employment, how to set a finishing line to stop the extra mile walk?
Trust the enlightened members will respond for the general benefit of aspiring young professionals.
B. Saikumar
Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
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Harsh, you have given excellent clues on how to deal with the situation.
Gaurav, you, in fact, hit the nail on the head with your wonderful analysis.
Saswatabenerjee's reality check will be of help to Priya in making up her mind.
Gaurav and other members, here we do not know whether the boss of Priya is a shining jewel in the business who is merely a professional, or a shrewd jewel in the business who is out to exploit an achiever to the hilt at no extra cost to him as Shiladitya apprehended, or it is the limiting beliefs of Priya about meeting challenges that make her complain about her boss.
In the first case, there may not be a problem to deal with the issue, and here Harsh's clues will come in handy. A truly professional boss will definitely understand the difficulties as he does not want to improve one function at the cost of a key function like HR. In the last case i.e., case no. (3), it does not appear to be the case with Priya, given her capabilities. If she harbors any such beliefs, she has to do a reality check by herself and change them.
The real problem is with the second case where the boss is a shrewd jewel who is exploitative. He may ask the performing employee to walk the extra mile every day, and if the employee consents every time to walk, he or she may, after a lapse of time, have to walk not one mile but many miles barefoot and may collapse, being tired. How to preempt such circumstances?
1) Whether the talented employee should not raise expectations in his/her boss?
2) If raised expectations in the boss about her competencies unknowingly in the initial stages of employment, how to set a finishing line to stop the extra mile walk?
Trust the enlightened members will respond for the general benefit of aspiring young professionals.
B. Saikumar
Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
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Hi Priya,
I just read all the above comments and conversations made by you. Please note that whatever you are told by your boss and you do it in minimum time with maximum satisfaction, he is going to expect more. So, what do you want? Do you want him to expect more, or do you only want recognition for your work?
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Ravi Khatri
From India
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I just read all the above comments and conversations made by you. Please note that whatever you are told by your boss and you do it in minimum time with maximum satisfaction, he is going to expect more. So, what do you want? Do you want him to expect more, or do you only want recognition for your work?
Regards,
Ravi Khatri
From India
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