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Administrative staff are not valued and get dumped on. That’s why plain and simple.
There's that expectation but also the person not exercising their mouth to say, "No." I believe that is difficult for many admins as many of us tend to be "people pleasers" ... of course, there are positives and negatives to that personality type. Also, I have the sneaking suspicion a lot of us would say, we don't say no because we don't want to have to justify the no. As if we even owe an explanation. We don't.
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I have but I volunteered on my own without being asked. I do it for two ERGs, about to go down to 1 because of time/availability. At my last job I was also on 2 employee committees (not erg). I think for me, part of it has to do with growing up in the church world where it's just expected of you to volunteer.
Now I'm not so much a part of that world, but old habits creep up. The ERGs I'm a part of are things I personally want to back, that being the woman's ERG and one for Neurodiversity. I am involved in different ways for both, one as communications, so drafting invites for events, newsletters, etc, and the other with event planning. Both just happen to be something I'm good at.
As far as the admin being expected, you're not wrong when it came to my last job. Each department was required a certain amount of volunteers for each committee or group and the admin was always on at least two. There's a myth out there that we have more flexibility and less to do (my working 7 days a week disagrees). At my current job, there is actually few admin involved, though I've noticed the communication positions tend to lean towards those in admin or support roles.
Exactly! There's almost an unspoken expectation that one has to be involved and I find it frustrating. It takes out the joy from volunteering for me.
Yep. I enjoy the things I do but it is exceedingly frustrating in order to get the pay and respect we deserve we often have to hop to another title or role because people view admins as having it easier ans expect us to pick up the extra on multiple things that can or are fulltime roles.
I have to genuinely keep up and excel at multiple things. I can't be sloppy with clients, or culture, or finances, or project management, etc, and that doesn't include if we deal with international things or have translation included in some of our duties.