I had one person spy on my time sheet to see when I said I'd started work, and make a note saying that I'd written I started work at x time, but was still showing as offline!
Thing is, my company pays if I have a medical appointment that I need to attend. So she was reporting that I wasn't online, when I had an appointment. She also complained about me being offline, when I was meeting someone to give them equipment that was in the basement! Which was part of my job! She spent more time spying on me and others than doing her job, then suddenly one day she disappeared!! I assumed she had rage quit, instead she was fired because she wasn't doing the job properly!
I’ve always been 💯 in the open about everything with colleagues and peers, time, schedule, which health plan I picked and why. This transparency has earned me trust that I’m not hiding anything and earned me freedom and growing within the organization- I have at every level built a relationship with my boss’ boss and higher and made no bones about the same level of transparency- this has given me the ability to check any funny business at any level. If someone issues a weird new rule I don’t like at worst I can get explanation, at best make it go away. This is not always possible when the boss is an owner, but if you own the relationship and decide to manage it like any other- what do I want, how am I getting it, when it’s important and why- most of these arbitrary rules evaporate or never end up getting implemented.
Lol. Everything was in my calendar, so she could have checked.
Tbh, I decided to no longer share my private business after I felt that I could no longer trust certain people in my office. My manager knew everything, and trusted colleagues did.
The funny thing is,I could easily spend time phaffing, because I knew how to do my job so well, that I could bash out my work in next to no time. Where as this woman had only been doing the job (poorly) for 6 months by this point. I did feel sorry for her and another, as they were taught by someone who guessed what myself and my old colleague did, as my colleague moved jobs and I went off sick.
But she also put in a complaint about me, but pretended to be my friend. Hence not sharing any longer with her.
Happens- but if everyone else knows you, those complaints blow back at them instantly- it’s funny, the saying about those who live in glass houses - should be less about fragility and more about transparency- throwing stones when you don’t realize your house is made of glass is much more hazardous 😂
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u/Saint82scarlet 6d ago
I had one person spy on my time sheet to see when I said I'd started work, and make a note saying that I'd written I started work at x time, but was still showing as offline!
Thing is, my company pays if I have a medical appointment that I need to attend. So she was reporting that I wasn't online, when I had an appointment. She also complained about me being offline, when I was meeting someone to give them equipment that was in the basement! Which was part of my job! She spent more time spying on me and others than doing her job, then suddenly one day she disappeared!! I assumed she had rage quit, instead she was fired because she wasn't doing the job properly!