Denise, By accepting the Markting Salary Research benchmark as representative of your value to your company after gaining 9 years of knowledge and experience, you have just reduced yourself to a yellow pencil in a large pool of yellow pencils.
They're all the same and the only difference is price and availability. Name one person in the the U.S. who has your level of knowledge and experience and interpersonal working relationships with the other employees in the company. Name one person who can be asked to solve a problem and go solve it with little or no additional direction. Name one person who can be trusted to carry out your responsibilities, day-in and day-out, and to complete your assignments correctly and on-time, with minimum supervision. The HR person is trying to convince you that you are not worth any more than any other EDI Coordinator/IT Suppport person and that they can replace you any day of the week. The HR person is trying to demonstrate his ability to save the company money without regard for the impact that saving will have on the efficiency and productivity of the other employees and the operations of the compay. How does your manager feel about this. Is your manager willing to let any the salary database come in Monday morning and try to do your job. Is your manager willing to bet his/her job, and the company, on the replacement provided by the HR person? You need to convince your manager (not the HR person I hope) that you are worth far more than any other person in your category and that, if he doesn't agree, you'll find some other company to work for where your talents and commitment are appreciated (after you find another job). You need to convey your value to the company to your manager, not the HR person, and give your manager the information he/she needs to go to bat for you with top mangement. If you can get top management to agree with you, they'll tell the HR person what to pay you, not the other way around. Good luck, Dave Dave Taylor Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 (O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (F) 310-377-3550 (C) 310-561-5200 www.sysmarkinfo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Denise Tate To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:42 AM Subject: [EDI-L] [Update] EDI Coordinator Job Description Good Morning. A few months ago I asked for assistance in writing my job description. I appreciated all the information received. I submitted a job description for "EDI Coordinator/IT Support" which is more accurately what I do. Our Company IT department consists of my boss and myself plus a part time contract programmer 2 days a week. It is really a great setup. I enjoy doing different things. Well,,, last week I received a "benchmark" of my job & salary against the chicagoland area market. I was disappointed and surprised by what the HR person told me and I would like to share it with the group. The job description I submitted was ignored and a cryptic EDI Coordinator job description was used from a Marketing Salary Research databank. My salary benchmark was the salary I started at 9 years ago. And to top it off, when I asked about the "IT Support" portion of my position, the HR person stated if they used that part of my job to benchmark my salary it would have brought it DOWN! Yep she said DOWN! I have 15 years experience in EDI and this is the first time I have ever heard doing MORE will reduce your marketability. Hmmm.. Any comments I can pass along to my HR person? Thank you in advance.. I need a laugh today can you tell.. Denise [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
