Why Managers Make More Money

Source HR Lady

We recently run an article comparing what CEO’s earn and what the common mwananchi earns. The article below shows how being a manger is tough and thus the reason they make a lot of money.

“I have been working at a company for about a year and half. As of last month I was moved to a different department and promoted to supervisor. At the time I was supervising 4 employees. I had to lay one of them off a week later due to being overstaffed.

The said employee (employee A) was supposed to be let go by my predecessor, but he never carried it out. I laid off the employee and needless to say that employee was shocked. I found out later that the former employee was going around saying that I fired him because I didn’t like him.

He has a couple of friends still employed with the company so hearing this I was alarmed. Both friends (employee B and employee C) are currently under my supervision. I recently had a day off and returned to work the following day.

I noticed that employee B was acting rather suspiciously; doing things that he normally wouldn’t do. He was always forgetting to lockout his computer when he would leave his desk. This day he immediately minimized an e-mail when I walked in the room. I looked down and saw that the title was “logging”. I thought nothing of it. The employee then got up from his desk and left the room only to return a few seconds later and locked out his computer.

I became suspicious of this. Later that day the employee left his computer open and his e-mail up. I noticed a folder in his e-mail called “logging”. I opened the folder and found that this employee had been logging incidents against me on the day after his friend was let go. He was e-mailing himself notes on interactions with me. Needless to say some of the notes are true but fabricated and some are complete lies.

There was one incident that I did read and recall. I had moved the employee outside the office after he had made several costly errors and had told him that he is costing the company money with his mistakes. He logged this in that file. He made another entry how he dreads whenever I come in the room and feels that I shouldn’t be allowed to look over his shoulder as he works.

He also made another entry that “I said that he had herpes”. Which is a lie. Employee C (the other friend) was saying that employee B had them because of his chapped lips and they were laughing back and forth amongst themselves. I had no part in this conversation. I am fairly new to supervising people and was completely blindsided by this because I didn’t know that this employee was out for me.

After reading this I have taken a different approach in dealing with this employee and have started employee notes on all my employees in case I need to refer back to them in the future. This employee is consistently late coming in to work and returning from breaks and I am not sure how to deal with this either. Because I really don’t need the extra stress if this employee decides to forward this file.

I am just looking for some advice. I am not sure if I should bring this up to my manager. Also I am not sure if I violated anything by reading this log on his company e-mail. Can you please help me out? I am trying my best to learn from this but it’s difficult and is causing me to be stressed out about the whole situation.”

It seems tough, doesn’t it?

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