Work sabotage

[madmumofteens]

Looking for some advice I have been working for a few months in an office environment and I recently was given a new role to carry out which involves input onto a shared computer. On at least two different occasions someone has been altering information I have input and I am a loss what to do. I recheck my work and have changed it back to my original input but this is getting me down. I had a confrontation yesterday with one of my colleagues who regularly undermines me and spoke to others in the office to try and get to the bottom of it. What do I do next? i was going to see my line manager with this explaining that someone has been tampering with my work and I have addressed it, I am drawing it to their attention in case it continues is this a good idea or should I wait and see if it happens again, any advice appreciated!!

Definitely speak to your manager. There might be some kind of background audit trail that shows who’s made changes on the system?

Thank you just need a gentle push as to what to do next. I don't want to cause trouble but it is so blatant what they are doing as all the records should be the same as they are copied from the master one but one or two here and there have been changed!

Tell your line manager, maybe in future save each page you type and put it into a file which cannot be accessed by other people or print out every page you type.

Speak to got line manager as soon as possible. Don’t ignore this.

I had this some years ago, someone would go into my spreadsheets and move all the figures about. I ended up saving a separate copy elsewhere. Don't know what the motivation of the colleague was, he was in his fifties and I was early twenties, very little interaction.

Hope you get it sorted.

Thank you all for your words of wisdom I feel deeply saddened that someone is capable of doing something like this to another person.

Is it a bespoke system or an Excel spreadsheet?

For a bespoke system, I would take screenshots (prt sc) and either print them or email them to myself.

For an Excel spreadsheet, who needs access? You can either password protect so it can't be viewed or protect it as read only. You could also save a second copy somewhere which is locked and a different name.

Speak to your manager and let them know what is happening. People are weird. One place I worked, one of the directors would go in and rename our shared docs because he wanted us to implement a long and complicated naming system. He clearly had too much time on his hands!