to say "no"

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Any advice at all would be fantastic!! I really do not know what the guidance on this is and I don't want to come across as lazy or awkward but.....

I joined a new company in December as one of 2 PAs supporting the Exec Team.

Since then I have been handed the responsibility of looking after marketing for the division (20,000 people!!) and the other PA has been put in charge of Comms. I have no marketing experience and it was not in my job description or mentioned in my interview.

They are now saying that they will bring in support as we are 2 people doing the work of 5 at the moment but rather than employ a marketing person, they want to employ a junior to take on some general admin so we can have more time for Marketing and Comms.

AIBU to push back and tell them that I applied for a PA position and not a Marketing position? Incidentally they will not be paying me any more for this position!

So are you doing any PA duties at all? If the job you are doing is completely different to the one described in your job description, YANBU.

maybe post in Employment for some proper advice?

Yup - still doing all my PA stuff as well as the marketing. Which is why I'm not sure where I stand - will post in Employment too. Thanks!

It really depends. Do you want to do a marketing job instead of a pa job - if yes this is a good opportunity for you. If not then I think you should say you want to do a pa's job.

If it is just that you are now doing pa duties for marketing section then that is not so straighforward.

You need to look at your job description and then make a note of all the things you are doing that are not in the JD. You can then use this to say to your line manager that you are doing lots of things that aren't in your job description.

How can you go from PA to marketing?? The two jobs are entirely different, and require different skills / experiance / qualifications.

Are you suggesting that you were taken on as PA and are now heading up a department of 20k people? If so UANBU

or are you doing the admin duties for the marketing department rather than the strategy? if so UABU

I gree that it depends on the way you look at it....if you're not trained in marketing then it's free training.

I recently took on a job for a cient for which I was totally unqualified...she trained me while I did it....she chose me for another skill which I could bring to the table and though I was not paid as a fully qualified pro in this subject, I now have a vastly imprved C.V.

What kind of company employs 20,000 people just for marketing??

YANBU, I do something similar to a PA and I'd hate to be in your situation

I think I'd grab the opportunity with both hands if I no longer wanted to be a PA.

I was a PA a long, long time ago and took on a couple of additional duties which enabled me to move into a different role and I'm now a fairly successful exec.

Having said that, if they're just using you and your colleague to fill a gap until they recruit someone else into the role or are making you responsible that they don't have to pay anyone else I think I'd query it.

To clarify!!

The division which I work in is approx 2000 people (sorry typo in the initial post!!)

I provide PA support to 2 of the Exec Team of that division as well as looking after the marketing for that division.

There is a "group" marketing team who provide support but every other division in the company has a marketing team. I think my division is being cheap!

What it means is that I am doing the work of 2 people at the moment. I would happily take on the marketing and give up my PA position with some training (and a marketing salary) but that has not been offered.

In that case, I think you're absolutely right to question it... Are you planning to have "the conversation" with your manager?