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Boss is secretly testing me. What should I do?

I work as a glorified janitor at a child care facility. On paper, I'm there to watch the kids and make sure everyone is safe every night, but in reality they have the night crew clean up after everyone each night. Recently, I've had management and my supervisor watching me more closely with the cameras at work. I'm constantly being reminded that “Manager X is on Cameras tonight” or “hey, don't take too many breaks, I'll be watching cameras tonight.” It's gotten to the point that I'm being reminded daily. Tonight, when I came in, I was immediately pulled aside by my supervisor, and he told me that I need to be cleaning better, he's on cameras tonight, etc. It bothered me because he was telling me how to clean things that he's complimented me on before, specifically the bathrooms. I found out why when I checked my work email…


I work as a glorified janitor at a child care facility. On paper, I'm there to watch the kids and make sure everyone is safe every night, but in reality they have the night crew clean up after everyone each night.

Recently, I've had management and my supervisor watching me more closely with the cameras at work. I'm constantly being reminded that “Manager X is on Cameras tonight” or “hey, don't take too many breaks, I'll be watching cameras tonight.” It's gotten to the point that I'm being reminded daily.

Tonight, when I came in, I was immediately pulled aside by my supervisor, and he told me that I need to be cleaning better, he's on cameras tonight, etc. It bothered me because he was telling me how to clean things that he's complimented me on before, specifically the bathrooms. I found out why when I checked my work email a bit later on: He hid several pennies around the areas I have to clean, and I only found some of them.

So what should I do?

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