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To get frustrated over pity errors my colleague makes

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hungrybwcat · 18/09/2024 16:47

I work in a very small team of 2 plus our boss. We all WFH. My colleague is paid a London wage (she mentioned hers without me asking) which is over £10,000 more thank I get.

She makes a lot of silly mistakes. For example she replied to a forwarded email so the recipient of her reply did not include the original sender who had sent to query and needed the answer to which she replied and she wondered why the issue was outstanding. Another example - she does not check her work thoroughly so once (a lot of the times!) something went out with a mistake which was later returned and we had to correct it.

Our boss doesn’t get involved usually so quite often these errors and corrections are made without getting noticed.

However I feel like telling my boss she did this and that and I picked it and rectified it etc. but I don’t. It’s too pity. At the same time I feel disheartened because I get paid much less. For the context I did ask for a pay review based on my performance and my management agreed I am a high performer but the company as a whole only had a certain amount in the pot and none of us got more than inflation.

AIBU to feel like telling my boss my colleague has made a pity error?

OP posts:
skippy67 · 18/09/2024 16:52

Lol

Echobelly · 18/09/2024 16:51

I presume you mean 'petty' error?

I wouldn't say anything, you'll be looking 'pity' then.

ApolloandDaphne · 18/09/2024 16:50

Maybe it's you who is making the errors and she is right?

AmeliaEarache · 18/09/2024 16:50

Starting a thread about petty errors where you misspell ‘petty’ twice is a bit ridiculous, OP

MasterBeth · 18/09/2024 16:49

Have you made a pity error, OP?

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 18/09/2024 16:49

I don't understand what "it's too pity" means. Petty? Or you pity her?
I would leave it. Sooner or later this slapdash behaviour will catch up with her.

Crunchymum · 18/09/2024 16:49

Oh the irony!

WetBandits · 18/09/2024 16:48

A what?