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?
The best thing would be shorter hours for the same total pay. It has the freedom to add more hours if they want more income, spend more time with the people or hobbies they love if they don’t, and makes whatever headaches the job may include more tolerable. If that’s not an option, it depends on what the headache is. Taking 100g off the scanner I have to lift 50 times each day vs taking home an extra, let’s say 5~10% pay? I’ll take the cash. It’d let me take more time off, do more fun things, etc. and the weight isn’t that much unless you have a prior condition. If it’s something that will make it so I can eliminate the need to scan anything and just get to the more important parts of the job, maybe.
Let’s be real here, though. If the option was there, any slackager (slacker manager) is going to do neither because that’d take effort. Any company serving manager is going to just not give the raise and tell the employees they complain too much and should be grateful for the work. And any human serving manager will be fired for wasting company funds on unecessary comforts or raises.