What would you do if your job was, say, a customer service rep, and your boss told you to clean the trash can?

If you told him that you didn't want to clean the trash cans, and your boss said "don't let pride get in the way", would he have a good point?
What would you do if your job was, say, a customer service rep, and your boss told you to clean the trash can?
This is why job descriptions say "work duties may change without notice". Maybe your company don't have a cleaning crew, maybe you have to take care of your own area. Maybe it is just a one time thing, where everyone has to pitch in and help.





In Miami where I work, I would have a law suit if someone asked me to make coffee, where as somewhere else, it might be required of you.





Go ahead and take out the garbage. Don't get on the bad side of your boss. You never know when you will need him.





I once was asked to work on a photocopying project with another co-worker, it was something that had to be done in a hurry, the co-worker said photocopying was beneath her, and not part of her job description, I said yes. She was let go 2 weeks later and I worked for the company for 4 years until I left for another great job.





Unless your boss asks you do to something that isn't safe or illegal, go ahead and do it.
Reply:You should be lucky you have a job these days. As for cleaning the trash can. This is an act of team work. Someone has to do it. As a boss myself, these little things add up and are taken in consideration when there has to be a "chop block". As a customer service rep, you are obviously hired to address customer's issues and concerns. As an employee, teamwork is what it is all about.
Reply:I'd clean the trash can, most jobs have other duties incl and unless you have a trust find or have money in the bank, be prepared to do anything they ask you to do, I have dusted, vacuumed, cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, a job is a job, and you often have to do things outside your own narrow job description.
Reply:As an employer I would go to the cleaning crew and request that they do their job correctly before I'd ask an employee to do their job for them. If there isn't a cleaning service, then I would expect everyone to take turns cleaning whatever needs to be cleaned, including myself. I would never ask anyone to do what I'm not willing to do.





But, that said, as one poster put it, we should all be glad we have jobs these days. That can change at anytime.
Reply:This is just part of life with a boss. It will stay in your mind for the next 20 years. Then you will open your own business and never have a boss again.


Clean the trash can..
Reply:Yes. Most jobs include unnamed tasks given by your supervisor in the job description. Meaning your job is what your boss tells you to do.
Reply:CSR jobs consist of doing whatever your boss needs and whatever the customer needs. If you want a better job without cleaning trash then go to college and get a four year degree.
Reply:If you check your job description, it will probably read something like 'and any other duties assigned by management'.
Reply:If its not in the job description you can tell him no and go to Human Resources and complain.
Reply:YES. If you look at your job description, you will see 'Other duties as assigned'. There are plenty of unemployed people who would do it...
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