So the job I do basically has 2 types of work (type 1 and 2). I love doing type 1 work but I hate doing type 2. I've asked my boss on a number of occasions whether I can reduce the amount of type 2 work I do in order to focus on type 1 work.
My boss agrees that I am much stronger at type 1 than type 2 but he refuses to agree to reduce the type 2 work he gives me because, according to him, you need to be good at type 2 work to be good at type 1. I disagree with this and can point to plenty of people in the office who do solely type 1 or 2 work (in fact when I started I was told I'd be doing type 1). I feel like I spend so much of my time on type 2 work which, for various reasons, I really struggle with when I could be focussing my efforts on type 1 work which I am much better at, certainly better than average.
The most annoying thing is that I really do enjoy this job (and most importantly can see real career opportunities here). it's just the type 2 work which I hate. I'm applying for new jobs but tbh my ideal situation would be to go to my boss with a new job offer and say "look, I'm taking this other job unless you give me what I want". Would that be really cheeky and unreasonable? Those of you who manage people, would you look very unfavourably on someone who did this?
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JungleInTheRumble · 05/12/2016 08:12
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