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Originally Posted by divine1966
Well the thing is that they might think that unreasonable is subjective? I am not sure. I think unreasonable tasks would be if I was asked to do something that I don’t have education and licensure in and what was not in the job description? Or what violates the law or state guidelines? Or time frame is unreasonable? Like type 50 pages in one hour? Something beyond your abilities could be unreasonable if it’s not in a job description? Like if I am asked to sing in public it’s beyond my ability as I am tone deaf but it’s also not in a job description. I wasn’t hired to be a singer, obviously I’d not apply for a singer job. Are they asking you to do things that are expected of someone in your position or something isn’t even an expectation?
Do you have an example of unreasonable task? It sounds that you and the company aren’t on the same page about it
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Job descriptions don't matter when they include a clause that says "other duties as assigned".
For the first task that was unreasonable I was told that I wouldn't have to write the product descriptions - that we have writers for that. I was told to edit them according to the client's directions. I did edit them as far as I could. Some of his edits required rewriting a portion of the product descriptions, or a lot more editing than I am qualified to do, so I told my boss that we needed a writer to finish them up. He didn't like that and thought I handed my task off to a writer. The second task involved categorizing 3000 blog articles according to 3 very specific categories. The task was impossible because of the difficult nature of the blog articles. Even my colleague said It was too difficult. I did the best I could, but I had to guess on about 1300 of them in the end. I even read many of the articles to figure out the categorizations, and still could not figure it out. It one point I had told a superior that I thought the client should do this work because they know their products and product categories best. My boss didn't like how I handled this either, even though I did complete the task as best as I could.
Both tasks I felt were unreasonable and beyond my abilities. I felt that the blog categorization task was a set up for failure.