fiddling timesheets?

[teresagreen]

hi, this is my first question so please bare with me. a colleague at work has signed her timesheet( and had it signed by a higher grade worker) that she was in on a certain day although i know that she wasnt there, now do i tell the boss/wages or do i leave it?

[teresagreen]

i do know,

[chelle7272]

I would say something because we are all under the cosh here with the threat of redundancy and lack of funding for services. However it is part of my job role to do that, so its not the same situation.
If you feel that strongly about it then say something, but beware of any comebacks as it may not go down well!

[mccfluff]

lol fantastic you sounded like a sulky school kid then

[sara3]

my work colleague was marked as "in" by the boss when she was at the hospital having tests for cancer, and didn't want everyone knowing.

btw, you just sound jealous.

[wolf63]

teresagreen = trees a green

[Messi_Ten]

Leave it. Management are probably creaming off loads in expenses anyway, why should her days pay make any difference.

Don't think I've ever filled in an honest timesheet, no one takes any notice of them.

[boxtops]

what sort of place do you work, teresa?

[micmak]

I get the impression that Teresa Green is really someone else in disguise. Clever name if she is in hiding.

[teresagreen]

redhelen, i didnt go searching through the time sheets looking for errors, her name is next to mine and it was obvious, sara, she wanted a long weekend off no other reason, messi, i dont fiddle my time sheets and they obviously do take notice of them because we wouldnt get paid otherwise, micmak why should i be someone else?

[karlyau]

Do you work in a company where they can't afford to lose that kind of money - or would it be insignificant to them?
Do you think you will be thanked for doing so .. by you colleagues, or your boss?
My feeling is you wont be thasnked too much.
If you had done something 'wrong' - not necessarily that, but something else, would you want people to cover for you?
A tough question, but I would err on the side of keeping quiet.

[4getmenot]

what job does she do? My job at work is to check timesheets and if they were to sign and someone then rang to say they didnt attend they get a displinary.

[vodkancoke]

Sorry, I have just come back to this. the reason I would leave it, as ummmm said, is that it would be none of my business. I'm sure it will become apparant in time, but I would hate to be known as the stirrer who got someone fired. No-one would trust you again. I think I would rather keep schtum....that's just me though. You clearly want to grass them up, so do it. No-one here is stopping you. Good luck!

[teresagreen]

i dont clearly want to grass them up but if everyone did it no one would have a job before long,, how many of you have been in this position?

[vodkancoke]

I have been in that position, at the end of the day it was nothing to do with me. You don't know if this was pre-arranged with the boss. How could you know? If the bosses are so incompetent they pay people for not being there, then that is their error. As I said, it may become apparant to them in time, in which case she will have to pay them the money back. It is not going to make you look good by grassing them up.