That’s appalling! They need to get their act together, small independent company or not, as that’s a data protection breach. She had no right to tell other people what your salary is or what anyone else’s salary is and sounds like she’d accessed the information without a proper reason. In most places I’ve worked you’d be sacked for doing something like that.
It’s not healthy. These sort of people are at some point in for the shock of their lives. My mother and stepfather worked for the same company for a while and had a middle manager who despite being married with kids lived and breathed the company and was really bad about people being a tiny bit late because of problems with the school run, that sort of thing. He was all for the company. When he was made redundant he completely went off the wagon.
One of Mum’s colleagues now has been with their employer for 20 years and the colleague has been used to being held in very high regard, works ridiculously long hours, expects the same of her reports even though they’re only allowed to carry over a maximum of a day’s flexi per month. Well in the last 2 years they’ve reorganised the team and hired new senior people who have more specialist knowledge and it sounds like Mum’s colleague feels completely lost and had a bit of a meltdown 2 weeks ago, saying she no longer feels she’s welcome etc.
