So I work part time in a small village shop. Through lockdown for various reasons we ended up with half our staff leaving. I offered to work any extra shifts I could to help out and because normally I do cleaning jobs around my shifts to make ends meet which I was unable to do due to lockdown.
My boss instead drafted in various relatives that were out of work to cover but paid me my outstanding holiday pay to 'Help' out.
So throughout lockdown we've been helping out our locals, doing deliveries and collections and a few of our customers have bought us chocolates ect to say thanks.
One of our customers sadly passed away, age related, and the family gave my boss a £300 tip to say thanks for helping out over the years. We all got £50 each which was lovely.
Last week my colleague said my boss had been given £300 by another customer to say thanks for all our hard work so we would be getting another £50 each. She had already had hers.
I mentioned to my boss we were getting spoilt and it was nice to be appreciated and she said 'oh there's £25 for you from Mrs Smith' so I said that was lovely and wondered if I'd misheard the amount as I'd been told £50.
The next time I went to work there was an envelope for me on the side and in it £25 tip from Mrs Smith.
Aibu to be a bit miffed about this?
If my colleague hadn't of said the amounts I'd of been very grateful for £25 but to then think she's had £50 and I've had £25 leaves me thinking well who had the extra as £300 between 6 of us means someone got more.
I've been in the same job for 10 years and I've always felt massively undervalued. I work really hard and never say no to extra shifts when asked.
I just don't know what to say to my boss without it making me seem ungrateful for the money as I guess it's her decision of how to divide the money... However if she then gave £50 each to the other staff members also just not me I'd be furious, one of them had 3 months off as she didn't want to work in lockdown and the other 2 are her family who don't normally work there but have filled in due to thier jobs being gone.
What shall I do? I know my colleague is unaware that I've had less than her or she wouldn't of said to me. But I don't want to make things awkward at work.