Okay so I’ve been working part-time in a restaurant for three years (currently I’ve only been doing about 10 hours a week – also this is in Australia & for a pretty large restaurant chain). In our storeroom with the alcohol etc is always this pile of files (our personal files, which include what our bosses have said about us), and today one of the guys I work with read it. When he got back, he talked to one of my supervisors about it (we’re all under 23) and then they started teasing me about what my old boss had said about me, which I found really rude… I really don’t need people knowing about that kind of thing. Then one of them said that it included my medical history, and although NOW I’m pretty sure it doesn’t, at the time it got me really worried and upset because I have things in my past I would prefer people not to know about unless they absolutely have to.
I ended up leaving an hour and a half early because I started crying and had to walk out. I told my boss about it and wrote her an email telling her all the details, but I’m wondering what the next step is. She just wants to talk to them, but I do not feel comfortable working with them again or even going back at all because they gossip like crazy. I’m rostered to work 10 hours this week again – would it be reasonable to ask to be paid for the remaining hour and a half I didn’t work today and also for the 10 hours next week? My mum thinks I should ask for 2 weeks pay but I feel bad about it – however the files are just sitting there out in the open – it’s not like they bother to keep our private info private, so I feel like if I’m going to be out of a job (this is the last straw for me) because my privacy was severely invaded I should at least get something?
I don’t want the guys to get fired or anything, it’s bad enough that this is happening at all because they are my friends and I don’t want to be the tattle tale at work (one of the reasons I don’t want to go back).
