Real-life MMD: I've enough money not to work, so I give ALL my earnings to charity...

eilidhcatriona

How you spend your wages is up to you. Even if you kept the money and you didn't need it, that's no one's business but your own. However you might find you want to leave anyway, if it has become an uncomfortable environment.

More to the point though, that was surely classed as confidential employee information? I'd say you have legal grounds for a grievance there. I'd be ripping heads off if my HR department gave out any info about me.

janiebquick

I think you may have a potential grievance against HR for their breach of confidentiality. But I agree with what most folk have said, you keep on working if you want!

duchy

Odds are if the breech of confidentiality has caused a lot of bad feeling (I'd be livid in your shoes) with your co workers it may not remain the enjoyable job it was anyway.

Ideal world it would be lovely to find a job where you could use your skills for a charity who couldn't afford you/could divert that wage to "helping in the field".

I wouldn't want to work for a company who had no respect for my financial privacy or who employed a load of judgemental busybodies though.

honeybean

My issue would be how did the wages dept accidently tell the work force you were doing this in the first place !!!!!!!!!

Aguazul

Earning a good wage and donating it does much more good in the world than spending the same time sitting in a charity shop. Also it is better for your mental health to do something productive that suits your skill levels.

If your co-workers are giving you a hard time and it is a small company, perhaps you could consider donating 10% of your earnings to internal company programmes for training (or whatever might be viewed positively by them). Like the CEO donating his bonus, this kind of thing wins hearts and minds.

pennypinchUK

People work for many reasons, not just to earn a wage. They may be in employment for reasons of self worth, or because they enjoy the company of others, or they want to keep their brain ticking along. Etc. In your case, it would appear you are motivated by the good you can do others.

So do what you want to do, and take no notice of what others think.

Oh, and get the individual in the wages department fired. The very first rule of a Payroll Officer (I was one once) is to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of staff wages. Break that confidentiality, and they cannot be trusted again. Period.

Sooler

The company may not recruit a replacement if you left. They may well save the costs. Remind your colleagues they might have to take on your work load if you left.

Porcupine

Look at it from the company point of view. If you left they might have to train someone up to fill your position, and maybe they couldn't find someone with the appropriate skills. Recruiting a new employee costs money. If you left you'd cause more work for them, so productivity would go down.

Plus you're more economically productive doing something you have skills for, rather than manual labour. So you can generate more income to give away than if you were in an unskilled position. Unless you reckon you can put those skills directly into the charity and make a better dividend (eg come up with a new fundraising campaign, redesign their IT, whatever)

marialex

and just imagine, if you did give up your job and your employers decided to cut back by not replacing you. No salary to charity,no job for you.Carry on the good work!

duchy

Aguazul wrote: »

Earning a good wage and donating it does much more good in the world than spending the same time sitting in a charity shop. Also it is better for your mental health to do something productive that suits your skill levels.

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This isn't the only post that assumes that volunteering means a menial position .

The OP holds a professional position so presumably has skills at that level....those skills can be use by that charity at that level effectively....for example if the OP has accountancy skills...they could save the charity the cost of employing an accountant (remember- the costs of employing a person for a company aren't just the wages they pay) if they have IT skills, if they have organizational skills they could work with organizing high level fundraising events etc.

It seems the OP might still be able to do the kind of work they enjoy and keep their professional identity and status whilst freeing up a commercial vacancy and be able to work in an environment where their generosity is appreciated rather than resented. This to me sounds overall more satisfying than helping a charity "from arms length".