Colleague shafted me, should I still travel with her?

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I know this sounds ridiculously petty but I’m fuming at a colleague who seriously shafted me this week and am unsure about whether I should suck it up and move on or should I cut contact.
For context, I work in a very competitive environment. We have been on a mission to hit a target and yesterday (after a lot of work) I achieved it. This CF has taken credit for it resulting in a very big bonus. There is no one to back either of us so ultimately it would be my word against hers if I took it up with management. I told her exactly what I thought but she laughed it off. We car-share our journeys but I’m really tempted to make my excuses and drive everyday and get her to do the same. We work closely together so I don’t really want a major falling out but I’m so bloody pissed off. I honestly don’t know how to play this.

I cannot for the life of me imagine how a long worked for and profitable goal can be achieved with absolutely no evidence of who did the work!

Thanks for the replies. Apologies for being a bit vague, it’s purely to not “out” myself. There’s plenty of evidence of my work, but she could have similar evidence. There’s no real way to pinpoint exactly who did what. Except maybe our computer history? It all gets stored on the same drive which makes it even harder to pinpoint. Anyway I hate confrontation and go out of my way to avoid it. Reading the replies has me thinking, I may have turned into a bit of a doormat. I’ll be emailing my manager and texting CF. Thank you.

You're definitely behaving like a dormat!

Would you feel the same way if she took money out of your bag and then laughed when you pulled her up on it?

Please, you need to speak to management. Even if you say - look, this is what happened. I don't know if there's any way to prove it or not, but this is the truth.

Stop avoiding confrontation. If you let her get away with it she'll mark you as a mug and do it again.

Definitely stop car sharing. The line above about - surely you understood car sharing would come to an end when you ripped me off - or words to that effect, are perfect.

Speak to management before you give her an inkling you're going to actually stand up for yourself this time though. Else she might try harder to cover her tracks.

Even if there is insufficient evidence to pinpoint who did what, the evidence trail you do have will show management that your colleague isn't necessarily deserving of the praise and bonus she's received. And management will have to take action. Good luck!

Did you raise it in the end OP?

I did! I spoke to my manager and then gave her all of my work leading up to it. The situation is now “under investigation” and amazingly she’s been “off sick” since my manager approached her.

Good for you. You have done the right thing.

Well done on braving the conversation. Doormat no more!

Well done you. Hope it's resolved soon.

Good for you. CF will hopefully get what’s coming to her.

Yay

Well done! She thought you wouldn’t dare.

Fantastic! Well done OP - I hope they recognise the truth of the situation.

Well done!

Well done Caffeine!

Something similar happened to me several years ago, only the stupid colleague forgot to change the footers on my 'her' presentation 😄. It was to a multiagency regional conference and she found it very awkward trying to answer pertinent questions.
She 'moved on' very quickly to another job miles away.

Well done you!

Well done OP, hope you will have a good outcome. It's important to report/log incidents like this even if you think nothing will be done - at least it's on record in case it happens again, and at best the CF will get sacked/reprimanded etc.

Well done op, I'm so pleased you haven't just let her get away with it. The fact she's now off sick speaks volumes.

Well done!

Oh well done op

Well done. Don't except this shit from anyone

She's no friend to be able to do something like that

Wow fabulous! Well done! Please let us know what happens in the end.

I love when their is a good outcome to these threads.