What I mean is everyone wants both. And I’m not talking huge differences. I don’t mean go from 30k per year to 120k per year or going home sweating everyday to watching Netflix most days. What brought the question up was I was in hospital and the computer the scanned all the medication and machines into was on my right side of bed and Iv pole where all medications were on my left. Nurses also had to deal with wired scanners which they had to hold up above the bed to walk around. Not a huge problem but cover 30 rooms with 4-16 different medications to swap out per day was probably a major pain(nurses can chime in disagreeing).

Another thing I’ve seen is people in a warehouse with systems logging all locations a product could be in and saying yeah we have some of that in one of these and they have to walk around to check several locations to find which still has some.

So you want a 2k-6k raise… If your job was easier how much would that make you stay instead of just demanding a raise?

Edit: this is not a real situation but say I have 4 employees under me and an extra 25k in budget. Would you prefer a raise or to improve your job?

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    4·
    3 days ago

    Not sure I’m following your point. If someone doesn’t give me a raise, doesn’t cut hours but I get my job simplified- what’s the problem with that? The only caveat I could see is if you have a job that you liked because of the challenge, and having it easier now equals it is unfulfilling. Similarly if you see an easier job as future reduced opportunities. But, if you just have a job to survive or that you are ambivalent about, I don’t see where the problem is.

    • vrek@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      It’s the question of raise vs simplified. Not no raise but you you want a simpler job. But if you had to choose, which and why?

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        1·
        3 days ago

        Easy, do I get a sense of achievement with this job? Is it part of my identity in a healthy way? Then, raise

        Do I just do the job because I need a way to pay the bills? Then, simplify. Less stress has a massive health impact

        Am I desperate to pay bills and debts? Probably raise and side hustles and overtime I don’t know