supervisor discussing other employees raI was shocked to hear today between co workers that the one employee was told by a supervisor she got the same raise as another co worker and she is upset. I took this part time position to supplement my income and started at a higher rate of pay then average. I certainly do not want this supervisor discussing my pay rate with other employees and causing hurt feelings and creating a stressed working environment. The one co worker said she was looking for another job she was so upset. Yikes! I don' t want to go to upper management and put myself in a bad position. What may have happened is that employee A says "Why did I get a 3% raise?" and the manager said "Everyone got a 3% raise." Or the manager said "Everyone in your group got a 3% raise" or something along those lines. That kind of thing DOES get said and it doesn' t have to be a big deal. I think he was specific about it...things that were said. He also has nick names for employees based on talk he hears form other employees. I don' t get a good feeling about it. Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear. Unless you know it for fact, let it drop. People talk when they don't know better. The way to avoid putting yourself in a bad position is, frankly, to stay out of it - no disrespect intended. In addition to the old adage: "Don' t believe anything you see and only half of what you hear," may be supplemented by another old adage: "Talk is cheap." If I were you, I' d stay totally out of this. You have no way of knowing what was actually said, what others think they heard, or how what may or may not have been said was embellished in the retelling. | |
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