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I work in a small office as an admin assistant. My boss/supervisor is the owner of the company so I can't complain about this to anyone else. There's no HR.
My boss keeps asking me to assemble these huge office chairs and move heavy boxes around. I have a shoulder injury and was told by a doctor to refrain from heavy lifting. I've gone to physical therapy for this for months at a time and my boss knows this.
I even told him I can't be moving the boxes. I looked at the side of one... It weighs 48 pounds! I'm a 5"2 girl who weighs about 110 pounds. Even if I didn't have a shoulder injury I would have a lot of trouble lifting this.
I've been putting it off, and just yesterday he brought it up again. He asked if I remembered the chairs implying I should go screw with them. I wasn't in the mood to have the same discussion, so I said "I remember."
Wtf is going on here? He's basically begging for an on the job injury or workers comp case...? I don't get it. How do I make him stop? I've told him numerous times I can't be dragging 50 pound boxes around and lifting heavy pieces out of them. I signed up for a desk job, and nowhere in the description did it say anything about being able to lift a certain amount of weight.
I'm kind of baffled at this point. I'm probably just going to wait for him to bring it up again and tell him I'm unable to do this and I'll get a doctors note if necessary. I just don't understand why he keeps pressing it. I think it's kind of pathetic for a grown man to be asking a tiny girl to be doing this, especially when the office is full of men.
I'm planning on finding a new job after I go on vacation in July. Not just for this but for many reasons. Technically there's plenty of people who COULD help, but can they bother to get off their ass and help for ten minutes? Doubtful. :P
I work in a small office as an admin assistant. My boss/supervisor is the owner of the company so I can't complain about this to anyone else. There's no HR.
My boss keeps asking me to assemble these huge office chairs and move heavy boxes around. I have a shoulder injury and was told by a doctor to refrain from heavy lifting. I've gone to physical therapy for this for months at a time and my boss knows this.
I even told him I can't be moving the boxes. I looked at the side of one... It weighs 48 pounds! I'm a 5"2 girl who weighs about 110 pounds. Even if I didn't have a shoulder injury I would have a lot of trouble lifting this.
I've been putting it off, and just yesterday he brought it up again. He asked if I remembered the chairs implying I should go screw with them. I wasn't in the mood to have the same discussion, so I said "I remember."
Wtf is going on here? He's basically begging for an on the job injury or workers comp case...? I don't get it. How do I make him stop? I've told him numerous times I can't be dragging 50 pound boxes around and lifting heavy pieces out of them. I signed up for a desk job, and nowhere in the description did it say anything about being able to lift a certain amount of weight.
I'm kind of baffled at this point. I'm probably just going to wait for him to bring it up again and tell him I'm unable to do this and I'll get a doctors note if necessary. I just don't understand why he keeps pressing it. I think it's kind of pathetic for a grown man to be asking a tiny girl to be doing this, especially when the office is full of men.
That cracks me up. Imagine if your boss told a man to get coffee, and he refused, especially when the office is "full of women".
It sounds like you're not the right person for the job, since it involves tasks you're physically unable or unwilling to perform.
I'm planning on finding a new job after I go on vacation in July. Not just for this but for many reasons. Technically there's plenty of people who COULD help, but can they bother to get off their ass and help for ten minutes? Doubtful. :P
Sad. I love helping other people with their jobs honestly. To me it's a brief moment of freedom from my boring job and something different, something new. Sorry no one will help.
That cracks me up. Imagine if your boss told a man to get coffee, and he refused, especially when the office is "full of women".
It sounds like you're not the right person for the job, since it involves tasks you're physically unable or unwilling to perform.
Um, that's not the same thing at all? Anyone can get coffee, it's not physically challenging. However, not everyone can perform physical labor and lift heavy things. This is why even places such as wal mart list "must be able to lift ___ pounds" and subsequently why I applied to this job. Because there were no lifting requirements.
I work in a small office as an admin assistant. My boss/supervisor is the owner of the company so I can't complain about this to anyone else. There's no HR.
My boss keeps asking me to assemble these huge office chairs and move heavy boxes around. I have a shoulder injury and was told by a doctor to refrain from heavy lifting. I've gone to physical therapy for this for months at a time and my boss knows this.
I even told him I can't be moving the boxes. I looked at the side of one... It weighs 48 pounds! I'm a 5"2 girl who weighs about 110 pounds. Even if I didn't have a shoulder injury I would have a lot of trouble lifting this.
I've been putting it off, and just yesterday he brought it up again. He asked if I remembered the chairs implying I should go screw with them. I wasn't in the mood to have the same discussion, so I said "I remember."
Wtf is going on here? He's basically begging for an on the job injury or workers comp case...? I don't get it. How do I make him stop? I've told him numerous times I can't be dragging 50 pound boxes around and lifting heavy pieces out of them. I signed up for a desk job, and nowhere in the description did it say anything about being able to lift a certain amount of weight.
I'm kind of baffled at this point. I'm probably just going to wait for him to bring it up again and tell him I'm unable to do this and I'll get a doctors note if necessary. I just don't understand why he keeps pressing it. I think it's kind of pathetic for a grown man to be asking a tiny girl to be doing this, especially when the office is full of men.
Stop being so passive-aggressive about it and tell him per doctor's orders you can't lift over ___ pounds. Get a doctor's note. All you are doing is postponing the inevitable blowup. Go to him before he comes back to you. Because then, he might just be firing you.
Email him and let him know you cannot assemble the chairs or desks with your shoulder injury (per doctors orders that you don't lift XXX), but that you could find someone online that might be able to provide assembly service. Then ask if he would like for you to do that or if he has other suggestions.
But you have to be able to encourage them, it takes some skills to do so.
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