Need to get some perspectives on this (NC to avoid being identified).
My husband was told at the beginning of lockdown that his work were temporarily reducing all salaries by 10% but this would all eventually be paid back (ie it was just to prevent cashflow issues - everyone would eventually go back to normal salaries and the deductions be paid back on top).
When it got to the autumn, I asked him if they had said when they might be stopping the 10% deductions as (at the time) times were getting back to normal. He said he would check.
A few weeks ago, I asked again and he said he had checked a few weeks previously and his work had said the wages had been returned to normal in September and they had also paid him a lump sum to make up for the previous deductions. I asked him why he hadn’t mentioned that to me before and he got all funny and slightly guilty but tried to laugh it off.
Tonight, when we were sorting out some financial admin, it emerged that actually, when he had asked, they had told him that his wage had never been decreased in the first place (ie they never implemented the 10% cut in the end). I asked him why he had said something different before and he again did the weird guilty laugh thing and said he didn’t know and that I could go through his bank account if I wanted.
I said I had no desire to but couldn’t understand why he would tell such a pointless lie, and that I didn’t feel comfortable with the fact that he could look me in the eye and lie to me. I asked if he felt he’d been wrong to lie, and he said that he didn’t think it was a big deal as the financial position was still the same as it would have been anyway.
The money part isn’t the issue (as overall, his wage was always going to be topped back up to normal anyway) but I don’t like the fact that he made up a lie with details (ie them paying him the lump sum) and doesn’t see any issue with that.
Appreciate it may seem minor and boring but have found the whole thing a bit upsetting.
AIBU?