To be fair, a lot of them seem to have been taught to hyper-specialize into their given niche, and they will actively refuse to learn. The attitude of “that is not explicitly my job, and therefore I will actively refuse to learn anything else” is far too common from what I’ve seen, and is the actual problem.
I feel I have a special perspective on this, being at the cusp of millennials and zoomers. It’s not so much that “it’s not my job” it’s more “I’ve been so conditioned that anyone and everyone will take advantage of me and I refuse to give them any sort of foothold to do so.”
I love learning, and I do plenty of things outside of my job scope, and see the benefit of learning those skills. However, I absolutely see where they’re coming from and have learned that the hard way too that allowing yourself to be trained on other things usually doesn’t mean you now do those things, it means to management that you now do your job plus those things, and get paid the same.
Coffee is $5 a cup if you want cream and sugar, I can understand looking out for #1
To be fair, a lot of them seem to have been taught to hyper-specialize into their given niche, and they will actively refuse to learn. The attitude of “that is not explicitly my job, and therefore I will actively refuse to learn anything else” is far too common from what I’ve seen, and is the actual problem.
I feel I have a special perspective on this, being at the cusp of millennials and zoomers. It’s not so much that “it’s not my job” it’s more “I’ve been so conditioned that anyone and everyone will take advantage of me and I refuse to give them any sort of foothold to do so.”
I love learning, and I do plenty of things outside of my job scope, and see the benefit of learning those skills. However, I absolutely see where they’re coming from and have learned that the hard way too that allowing yourself to be trained on other things usually doesn’t mean you now do those things, it means to management that you now do your job plus those things, and get paid the same.
Coffee is $5 a cup if you want cream and sugar, I can understand looking out for #1
Learning how things work is the #1 priority if you don’t want to be taken advantage of.
I’m always happy to learn new things. Whether or not I bring that knowledge to bear depends entirely upon my compensation.