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I think it may be a good idea you move on if you can't handle the position you've been given. You obviously can't handle seeing what other people make, whether fair or not, without comparing it to what you make. It would be very difficult for a manager to have to explain decisions to you every time you feel slighted.

Beverly

I agree that the OP should move on.

This company has showed that it's not a company that any person of ability would want to work for. It would appear that incompetent people get rewarded and competent people do not.

I agree that a manager could not explain a decision to the OP. It would appear that they are too scared to explain the decision.

There's plenty of people in business who are incompetent or apologists of incompetent people. Keep away from them and only deal with good people. Let incompetent people wallow in their incompetence.

You've only been there 4 months, and yet you're infinitely smarter than everybody else in the department.

Got it.

Sweetie, I worked on Wall Street and I saw people who didn't even notce their $64,000 commissions were missing from their checks until I fixed the entries at month-end.

If you've only been there 4 months you probably aren't entitled to be in the bonus pool.

Like somebody else said - if you work with Payroll you have to just get over seeing what other people make. Cut your best deal and live with it. I assume you didn't negotiate bonus during the interview process?

Or it could be that other people's payroll is none of her business.

Should the manager explain why the OP didn't get a bonus?

Smarter comes from length of service?

So why did someone who'd only worked there since November get a bonus?

Or leave and work for a better company.

I certainly don't think s/he's obgligated to explain anything. The compensation of other employees is none of her business.

She apparently can't quite determine if her manager is a male or a female. I'm staying with my gut hunch on this one.

"......after I do all the work for year end?" Are we supposed to think that the rest of the department shall be in the lounge enjoying tea and crumpets? Please.

I suspect she would be best suited for a career as a temp.

Perhaps she is a troll.

I don't think you'd have employees for long if you are not willing to explain why you didn't give them a bonus.

And the woman that empties your trash can and scrubs the company potty at night makes less than you.

What's your point?

In this economy? Are you kidding? She's doing clerical work, for $39,000 a year, a decent rate for her area according to her.

Easily replaced.

You really can't see the point? Isn't it obvious?

The OP is correcting the mess that the incompetents make for less money than they earn.

I'm sure the OP is easily replaced. Most likely by someone who makes as many mistakes as the others do in the department!

Go back and read her original post - she's still OOB. It might be better than it was, but it's still not right.

No, she's just balancing accounts. It's essentially grunt work. As is data entry.

Usually doing any type of reconciliation in an accounts department would highlight errors regarding the more unusual situations but the OP was saying they found very basic errors by people who were being paid more.

Along similar lines, one can conclude that if one person believes themselves to be the only sane one in a group, it is likely that this one person is really the insane one. I am NOT saying the OP is insane, but I do find it rather odd that the claims insinuate that the OP is the only person in the department who can "get it right."

Beverly

You don't think that some organisations develop a culture? With this culture in place some organisations get better and others get worse until it is very bad.