My colleagues threw away my bills. What do you think?
Hello everyone, I need your help. I've settled all the invoices and placed them in the designated person's place for review. The invoices will then be checked by that person the next day. When I realized the invoice hadn't been returned, I asked the person in charge where the invoices were. She claimed she'd never seen them, even though I had indeed placed them in her place. Now I'm wondering if someone might have taken revenge and thrown them away, since some people don't like me. What do you think? Should I quit? I can start the whole process again and call the customers to tell them I need all the paperwork back.
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I had a similar moment just yesterday with my (really great!) boss. She thought she hadn't received a certain document from me yet, but I was absolutely certain I'd already given it to her. Turns out, she'd simply "parked" it in the wrong folder ;). She realized it when she thought about it again and looked more closely, precisely because I was so sure I'd already given it to her, and then she had an idea where it might be.
So if you're absolutely sure you've placed the invoices where you agreed, just ask your boss to take a closer look! It can happen that a few invoices slip between other papers or end up under another pile, or something like that.
However, the fact that you immediately think that colleagues are maliciously sabotaging your work and ultimately even risking the company to harm you with such an action speaks volumes about the atmosphere in your team! This could certainly be a reason to think more seriously about a job change…
At such times, it's always important to take a hard look at yourself and examine whether and to what extent you contributed to such a situation developing at work! If you don't do this, you run the risk of simply repeating your mistakes in your new job—and thus finding yourself in a similar situation sooner or later…
And anyway, you quit when you get something new! In the current job market, that's not difficult if you're reasonably qualified. Use the weekend to send out applications, see what offers you get, and quit once you've secured the new contract!
I searched the entire office with the person in charge – to no avail. We searched everything, and the person herself said she hadn't seen any invoices because she even had meetings that day. There are just people who don't like me! And someone must have wanted revenge, because otherwise I can't figure out where they are. The cleaning ladies saw the invoices that day, but they didn't take anything. It's strange because the invoices were still there that morning, but by late afternoon around 4-5 pm, they were no longer there…
Due to the high work-from-home factor alone, we mostly handle this via email with a digital signature. So much for digitalization in Germany…
Notting
In the future, don't give your colleagues the originals to review, but rather copies. Then, if something goes wrong, you only have to make another copy.
Discuss your problem with your supervisor/boss. What do they say? It's unacceptable that you're working and have to redo tasks because someone played a bad joke. Your boss should know this.
My supervisor told me to call the customers and do it again because it went wrong🤦🏼‍♀️ if this happens again, I'll quit
You already know that you will not receive unemployment benefits
That's all he said? – Yes: quit! A boss should keep his crew together—not divide them.
Is there no other way to do this than to give people the papers?
I meant that the employer has no chance in the labor court
Of course, you have no right to anything, but like everything in life, it's a matter of negotiation.
The myth that you are entitled to severance pay if your employer terminates your employment is also persistent!
If the boss wants to fire you because he's unhappy, then you say you want severe pay… if not through the labor court. I'd do that on my own.
So we have to learn how to get out of this “safe”? And that's better?? Come on, I beg you! This has nothing to do with "adulthood."
There are other ways to get paid: work slowly, make many mistakes and then blame them on your colleagues.
you will only be banned for two months
No, he didn't. Now I can call every customer to request all the paperwork. That's not possible, because all the paperwork is used to create an invoice. Because everything is listed there, and I just charge for it.
Would you rather be bullied?
No one here can tell you what your colleague's intentions might have been. There are certainly reasons why the invoices disappeared that are beyond your colleague's control.
Rewrite invoices and soon hand the invoices personally to your colleague.
Of course, you can always quit for peanuts. That won't get you very far in life.
It's possible that colleagues threw them away, but nobody can say for sure.
In the future, hand over the receipts personally to the responsible colleague and do not leave them on the desk.