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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
So it's really a good old fashioned demarkation dispute? Face it if parts of your existing job are being mechanised it is reasonable, is it not, to ask you to do some other work?
As an electronics engineer (I'm now a consultant) my job had changed markedly over the years from just doing the design and sketching it out for a draughtsman to re-draw. With computers we were expected to enter the schematics directly, update the CAD libraries, write formal documentation even layout sections of the PCBs. There was a time when the number of draughtsmen (women as well) outnumbered the engineers by two to one. These days you'd be hard pushed to find even one full time. Yet the pay for an engineer hasn't really changed despite doing many other peoples work.
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No, you misunderstand me. My existing job hadn't changed, neither had the other person I mentioned in my example above, I don't do less than I did before, if anything I have already gained other duties which make my existing work take at least 30 mins longer. RM management make him take a redundancy claiming his job doesn't exist any more then try and make me take on his work aswel as my own for the same pay I am on now.