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Help! Work issue with new colleague

36 replies

mogloveseggs · 20/08/2019 00:10

New person at work. As the most experienced person I have done their initial training. Not finished it yet but they've been thrown into the role on their own due to staff shortages.
Have been told by a very credible source that he's slagging me off to all and sundry that I'm crap. Fair enough, not really bothered. But also that he has looked inside my wage slip (stapled on reception with my name on the outside so no need to look inside) and told others the content).
Surely this is a GDPR breach? What do I do?

OP posts:
IAskTooManyQuestions · 20/08/2019 00:11

Tell your line manager, complain to HR.

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mogloveseggs · 20/08/2019 00:16

Very small business, none of that. I would have to speak to the owner. Just wanted to check that I wasn't making a fuss over nothing as they have a habit of dismissing things as telling tales. I suspect this is the last straw and I need to leave.

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NKFell · 20/08/2019 00:28

I’d 100% tell the owner. I always think if someone behaves like that, what else will they do!

NKFell · 20/08/2019 00:29

(And yes last straw...last last straw)

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mogloveseggs · 20/08/2019 00:34

Yep. You're right. No good with confrontation so always back out but this time I need to stand up for myself!

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DramaAlpaca · 20/08/2019 00:40

I agree you need to talk to the owner. The problem is the new starter, who sounds like a bundle of trouble, it's absolutely not you. That behaviour from him is utterly unacceptable & you need to challenge it.

Smelborp · 20/08/2019 04:26

He’s a new starter and behaving in an unacceptable way. I’d want to know as an employer for sure.

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mogloveseggs · 20/08/2019 08:47

Right. Thank you.
Feeling like I want to run away this morning but I'm here.
He is in later on. I will speak to the owners first.

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BenWillbondsPants · 20/08/2019 09:02

Why should YOU leave? Unless you hate your job of course, but this new employee needs his arse handed to him on a plate for that. Surely that must be gross misconduct of some sort?

maddiemookins16mum · 20/08/2019 09:13

The wageslips also need to stop being put where they are.

ThePhoenixRises · 20/08/2019 10:42

this new employee needs his arse handed to him on a plate for that

Agree

Drum2018 · 20/08/2019 10:46

Why are wage slips left lying around reception? They should be given to employees in a sealed envelope surely. Make sure those who told you about what he said are willing to back you up. For now it's all hear say. If you go to your boss and say 'Jason told me that new colleague said I was crap and looked at my payslip', can you be sure that Jason will admit it to the boss when asked?

DGRossetti · 20/08/2019 12:15

Why are wage slips left lying around reception? They should be given to employees in a sealed envelope surely.

Or even better, emailed ?

Drum2018 · 20/08/2019 12:48

Or even better, emailed

True.

managedmis · 20/08/2019 12:50

He leaves. Not you.

BoneyBackJefferson · 20/08/2019 13:11

Surely you should be trying to find out if there is any truth to this before you go to management/HR whatever?

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mogloveseggs · 20/08/2019 16:01

Have spoken to the owner who is going to investigate. Wage slips are normally emailed but there was a problem. They were in a drawer waiting to be collected. Stapled, so that contents can't be seen.
The person who told me is very reliable and happy to speak to the owner if needs be. There has been other stuff insinuated by him but I've let it lie.
How do you find out the truth when I bet he would deny it to my face?
I've worked there 3 years, the other person 2 years. This person has been there a few weeks and I've never had this problem before.

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QueenofallIsee · 20/08/2019 16:03

Make as much fuss as you need - you are doing the owner a favour as this sort of thing does not suggest they are a great employeee! 2 weeks in, sack em off!

DGRossetti · 20/08/2019 16:11

How do you find out the truth when I bet he would deny it to my face?

If I were boss, I'd call the other person in for a end of training "pay review" and engineer it so that they'd be put into a corner (not sure how exactly Grin)

I'd do that because if I were boss, I really wouldn't want someone in my company who can't be trusted.

Alternatively, I'd make a big show of apologising for getting the figures on last months pay wrong, making a bit point that it was clear the figures were way too high.

Flerkin · 20/08/2019 16:16

To be honest, your company hasnt protected your details very well either.

Having them laying around where they could be picked up and removed, or someone else could pick them up and see th contents easily, which he did. He told other people and shpuldnt have looked. But the company havent taken care with your data either

DGRossetti · 20/08/2019 16:39

But the company havent taken care with your data either

While true, it doesn't really help the OP moving forwards assuming they wish to remain in their job in what seems to be a man+dog outfit.

ElizaDee · 20/08/2019 16:41

Alternatively, I'd make a big show of apologising for getting the figures on last months pay wrong, making a bit point that it was clear the figures were way too high.

Why?

Vesperia · 20/08/2019 16:47

are you absolutely sure he looked & is telling people what he saw or could he be making up a figure that he's telling people he saw & actually didn't?

RosaWaiting · 20/08/2019 16:53

I would report

How many people have reported to you that he did this with your pay?

I would be prepared the owner might not care though, the mere fact of unsealed envelopes with wage slips so easy to get to....jeez.

DGRossetti · 20/08/2019 16:58

Alternatively, I'd make a big show of apologising for getting the figures on last months pay wrong, making a bit point that it was clear the figures were way too high.

Why?

So nosey parker is told - indirectly - that they can't rely on anything they saw.

It all depends on the owners decision. Personally I wouldn't like the idea of keeping someone on who had displayed such a flagrant untrustworthiness. But that's me. I'm just reading into the OPs description of the situation.

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