Help! Work issue with new colleague

[mogloveseggs]

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?

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.

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

@DGRossetti No, that's terrible advice for a hypothetical manager/owner! You should be speaking to your employees directly and clearly, not playing games and making stuff up.

If it were me, what OP's new coworker has done would be a fireable offense - shows a complete lack of judgement and integrity.

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.

True, although OP said in a later post that they were in a drawer as well, so presumably the coworker had to have been specifically snooping through reception to look for it!

Not defending the company's data security here, but christ.

@DGRossetti No, that's terrible advice for a hypothetical manager/owner! You should be speaking to your employees directly and clearly, not playing games and making stuff up.

Shrug

Well my real advice was to lose the nosey parker. At the end of the day trust is broken, they are only a new starter, and while it's a pain in the hole recruiting, it's worth any amount of worry over untrustworthy staff.

Another tack for the OP would be to go nuclear, report to the ICO, and seek redress from their employer. Which is the "correct" way of dealing with this issue ....

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.

Drawing attention to the fact this man could do this, is also drawing attention that he was able to.

I am also wondering why the person who saw this clearly, didnt say anything, to him, at the time.

And unless the people who have told her this are willing to come forward, there isnt much they can do.

They might be willing to sack a new employee on a rumour. But non if us know that.

What would be the point of telling ‘nosey parker’ That the figures are overinflated, the damage is already been done with their big gob. What are you expecting them to do, go around correcting their gossip with the ‘accurate’ figures.
The employees been there a few weeks and is already behaving like this, presumably still under probation when most people are trying to give a good impression. Christ knows what they’d be like if you left them to it for a few years.

What would be the point of telling ‘nosey parker’

... no point at all if the owner did what I would do, and get rid of.

However, the OP seemed to suggest that this wasn't an option, so moving forwards there has to be some correction.

I can't speak to the OPs situation, but having been in a role where they struggled to recruit someone to replace me, and when they did it emerged they were on 50% more than I was (while I was training them) , I know how corrosive known pay inequality can be. This was 30 years ago, and it still smarts.

Well just to update as it always bugs me when people disappear. Handed my notice in yesterday. It's a toxic work environment that I want out of. Full family support and I feel very much relieved to have done it.

Thanks for the update ...

If the business is as small as I pictured, the owners now in a bind. They've lost a trustworthy and valued member of staff, and been lumbered with someone who's untrustworthy and already cost them dear.

Funny old world.

Best of luck mogloveseggs

I am pleased that you have got out of the environment, but its a sham that you have had to.

All the best.

Congrats @mogloveseggs Life’s too short to put up with anything like that.

Thanks everyone