‘You wanted to work, so work’: Young employee informs entire crew about coworker's higher salary, leading to boss scheduling employee every single weekend

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    "You wanted to work... So work!"
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    It doesn't pay to snoop then accuse the boss...
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    First some background: I own a tanning salon, and it is open from 9am to 9pm every day. There are usually 5-6 girls working part-time there, and the pay is 12 dollars an hour plus cash commissions on the things they sell (packages, lotions). It's worth noting that it's a small non-chain business in a college town.
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    All of the pay checks are kept in a drawer, in individual envelopes with the employees names on them taped shut. They pick up their envelope on pay day, and it has worked well EXCEPT for one instance. One employee decided to open everyone's envelopes to see their pay, and she was LIVID that one girl was
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    getting paid $2 more an hour. Instead of just asking me about it, she decided to blast the employee group chat and accuse me of ripping them off etc. Before you think the same thing, it's worth noting again that this is a college town with all college age workers. Which for my particular salon it has
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    meant it's VERY hard to consistently have someone who wants to close weekends. They are all usually going home, have plans, want to study, etc. I try to be super accommodating, and I work around everyone's schedules to the best of my ability. If someone says they cannot work, I do not ask questions I just accept it and plan
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    accordingly. So, the reason this girl made a little "extra" was because she offered to close both days every weekend because she didn't mind. She didn't want as many week hours so I offered to pay her a little extra because it was so difficult a lot of the times to schedule that. Plus those two days can be a little slow, so commissions are
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    usually not as good. I guess the girl who snooped never bothered to look at the schedule to see if there was MAYBE a reason that girl made a little more (even though she really didn't because she worked so few hours). Cue malicious compliance.
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    I explained the situation to all of the girls. I told the snooper that since she was right, totally a rip off, I would make sure to fix it. I started scheduling both the snooper and my weekend closer every weekend night for the next 3 weeks. I really only needed one person working, but I had done a terrible wrong that needed to be made right!
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    (At the extra pay for the snooper of course). I would've done it longer, but she apologized and said she was totally fine going back to how it was because she wanted her weekends back and the extra pay wasn't worth it! I guess we could've decided that together if she had just talked to me in the first place instead of jumping to conclusions.
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    Ladyehonna 2 days ago That is actually the best way to have handled that. 1.4k Reply Share Kenkaneki-stan_12 OP 2 days ago Thank you! That really means a lot to me, running a business is a huge learning curve. I just do my best, and try to learn as I go. 735 Reply Share
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    Sum_Dum_User · 2 days ago I'd have canned her for looking at other people's checks in sealed envelopes. That's not her business. If she asked the other girls and they told her that's within their rights to discuss, but to just open their envelope like that? Trust was broken and in my mind that's right on the cusp of thievery. 649 Reply Share
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    Kenkaneki-stan_12 OP 2 days ago I was not very happy for sure, but I was relatively new to it all. I had no rule against it per se, assumed people would not do it. That is on me for overlooking that, so I did not want to set an example that I'll fire you for breaking rules that did not exist at the time or I can't take blame for things I should've thought of Reply Share 331
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    SkwrlTail 2 days ago Years ago, at the hotel I work at, one of the housekeepers was VERY upset that everyone else was getting more shifts than she was. She came down and confronted the manager with husband in tow for moral support and translation assistance.
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    The manager then very patiently explained that the reason that she wasn't getting as many shifts was because she had requested so many days off. Furthermore, despite that, she had slightly more hours than any of the other housekeepers. Her husband gave her a look. The sort that says "you dragged me here for this nonsense?". 147 Reply Share
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    StopMost9127- 2 days ago I must say, you are probably a saint, because I would have fired anyone snooping through the paychecks. Don't know that what abyone else makes was her business. 248 Reply Share Kenkaneki-stan_12 OP 2 days ago Saint I am not, I can assure you. I hate firing people, but it is part of the job. I usually try to discuss issues first, and give
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    them chances. Unless it's something really bad like the one and only guy I ever hired then promptly fired because he got a girls number from her customer account, and started trying to ask her out/bothering her. Reply Share 146
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    CoderJoel 2 days ago . Good way to deal with her being disgruntled about the pay difference, but what did you do about her gross invasion of privacy? 67 Reply Share Kenkaneki-stan_12 OP 2 days ago I discussed it with her, and I decided to accept when she said she understood and was sorry. I started all of this from scratch with no rule book to go off, so I didn't have
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    a policy in place against it per se. I assumed people wouldn't go doing that when I shouldn't have I guess. Then I made it clear to current and future hires that I had no problems if they wanted to discuss their pay with each other or me. 464 Reply Share
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    Strix780 2 days ago Should have just fired her. No-brainer. 4 46 ↓ Reply Share Kenkaneki-stan_12 OP · 2 days ago Perhaps, but then my urge to be petty would have gone unfulfilled. ↑ 59 ↓ Reply Share

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