Very late last night a close friend asked for help with her job application for next stage of training in a professional career. She's left it late and the answer she's asked for an opinion on is mediocre, at best. I was happy to assist and just sat down to do a bit of tweaking (not adding to, purely improving the wording slightly. The content of it is entirely her work).
Anyway, she's sent me the entire application. One of the sections is to do with publications. We worked together on a paper a few years back where we were joint authors. It was a national publication and quite a big thing for both of us at the time (probably helped us win our current jobs). Her name went first, purely because they were listed in alphabetical order. On the application she's said "lead author". Ditto "lead presenter" in a subsequent presentation we were invited to give... Where as I recall, I did the vast majority of talking and all of the handling of difficult questions.
I also helped her prep for previous interview and she has insisted that was what got her the job.
I'm hurt. And angry. Deadline is tomorrow and I've sat down in a rare slot of babies asleep to do it. I don't want to. Don't know what to do at all. I have text her with the words "Oi, mrs. Joint authors! :-p" not likely to get a reply as she's working a long day and I'd imagine the moment will have passed by the time I get a response.