My company decided to hire someone to assist me… and they’ll have a higher role and pay than me.
I’ve have a fairly good job.
My biggest complaint is that there is no one else who knows how to do my job. Aside from being a poor business plan, it means I simply can’t go on vacation and have to work 10-20 hours of overtime one week out of the month.
Leadership is aware, so today they announced that they would be hiring someone to take some of my workload: primarily reporting, but also some daily tasks and backup should I need to take a day off.
This person will have a higher title than me, as well as being paid signifiantly (~30%) more than me. To … assist … me.
I spoke with my manager later. I tried to be constructive, pointed out that I’ve worked with people in the past, and they didn’t have many of the fundamental skillsets needed (PowerBI, Excel, SAP) to do the work that my manager is saying they’ll take on. So, not only do they not have the generalized skills, they don’t have the specific knowledge (my job).
My manager said, “Well, you can teach them!”
I tried to focus a bit on how my biggest complaint is that I’m working way beyond my scope (designing processes for other departments, building pay schema for hundreds of people WHO ALL MAKE MORE THAN ME).
My manager said she didn’t really think I could get a title/promotion (+pay bump) because I don’t have the necessary experience/knowledge required to bump up to the next level.
So let me get this straight:
I don’t have the knowledge or experience necessary to do the job I’ve been doing for 5+ years
so you hired someone at a higher title and pay rate
whom I have to teach the fundamental skills they’ll need to do my job (that you say I don’t know how to do)
The manager said “Wait, I thought you’d be excited about this?!”
Just infuriating to me that companies presume experience = skills, and then when you show them skills, they say “but we pay based on experience!”