To get frustrated over pity errors my colleague makes

[hungrybwcat]

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?

It can happen anyone.

Unfortunately your title confirms it.

You've actually made about 4 errors in your post. The things you mention are human error, they are petty reasons to be running to your boss and making yourself look daft.

If she gets London weighting it’s because she will be paying more for her general cost of living. You’ve made five obvious errors in your first post - people in glass houses? We all make mistakes and the world operates more nicely when people are accepting of that fact. Maybe reflect a bit on why you are feeling the way you are - if you don’t feel you are remunerated sufficiently and there is no leeway within the company then look elsewhere?

I think you need to be looking for a change of job, preferably in a larger organisation where there will be too many people for you to have the time to keep tabs on their work.

Do you think that by telling boss about the pity errors, he'll give you a £10,000 raise?

What exactly is your motivation?

I could do with some pity cash about now. 🤣

I thought you meant pithy.

Anyway, it's very difficult to say if it's worth speaking up. It would look petty of you to point out to someone else when she has done something wrong. But you could stop coming to her rescue and fixing her errors and see what happens.

The amount of fun others are having at this persons expense 😏

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Glass houses and stones come to mind. Are you sure that your criticism isn't misplaced and her work may actually be error free?

Reminds me of the former colleague who called someone a moron in an email sent to everyone in the office and spelt it moran.

The errors she made do sound petty, which makes you extremely petty for pointing them out. What a pity.

Brilliant! 😂

The irony 🤣

What is a pity error? Do you mean a sympathy mistake?

What a pity!

Is it only me that assumed English isn’t the OP’s first language?

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I know, we've no petty.

Well now, including your thread title, there are six errors in your OP, @hungrybwcat, so I don't think you're entitled to cast aspersions on your colleague's mistakes.

I do stupid things like this at work too - it’s not lack of care and it’s not lack of brains, it’s innattentive ADHD. It’s very hard to manage because it’s almost impossible to not make mall silly errors but aside from this I’m actually highly skilled at my job.

I assume you were deliberately showing us how frustrating these "pity errors" are?

And from the responses on here: Well played @hungrybwcat Frustrating indeed.

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What a petty she is being so pitty about it all!!

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