To be pissed off that someone else has got credit for my work

[treetops46]

So last week, I cancelled my days off and worked all hours on a presentation that I was leading with my boss today.

I wrote the entire presentation, developed the strategy, designed it - literally everything, because it had to be done so quickly and we are all busy so I just took it on the chin and made it happen.

There is a (wonderful and lovely) more junior team member who proofed the deck and is usually part of this team but was too busy to help last week. This week she is off sick so couldn't attend the presentation either.

We just did the presentation (my boss and me) and it went brilliantly. The clients said numerous times how much they loved the deck and the ideas, I was so happy that all my hard work had paid off.

Then straight after the presentation, boss messages me and more junior girl on our Teams chat saying 'brilliantly presented, TreeTops, and Junior Girl, they loved your deck!'

Now I know because I am quite senior that I should just try to let this go but it's annoyed me so so much!! I can handle not getting much praise for it, but to give credit to someone else entirely just really stings. Ugh.

I feel like I will be being really petty if I mention it, and doubt junior girl will really notice the message amid the mountain of stuff she'll have to catch up on when she gets back so probably won't correct him either. Gahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

This is absolutely not what happened. How peculiar.

I was just presenting an alternate view of things - that's definitely what would happen in my workplace but of course it isn't necessarily how it would be viewed in yours - very dependent on what sort of deck (and yes, I also use the word deck!) it is.

@treetops46

Update - he has just sent me a really lovely message separately to say well done on the presentation. He's referring again to the delivery but even so, I'm kind of over his other message now 😊

Thank you for all the replies!

Reply: thanks again. It was worth working through my leave to get it all done in time.

And leave it at that? If he mentions it again (when you see him face to face just clarify and say that you wrote the presentation). It doesn't look petty. He kind of needs to know in case more of this work comes up and he knows who has the skills to do it.

He kind of needs to know in case more of this work comes up and he knows who has the skills to do it Because there might be a risk boss would go to junior to write the accomplished presentation? Really?

YABU OP

I can't think of any better cure for insomnia than sitting through a 50-page slideshow.

@PerditaPerdita

Actually this just needs for the junior to come back and then message you both saying thanks Bob but actually it wasn't my (deck ....) - I was away and TreeTops developed the whole thing on her own, even cancelling leave.

That's what I'd do if I was Junior.

I agree. This is what a man would do.

@debwong

I can't think of any better cure for insomnia than sitting through a 50-page slideshow.

I did wince at that too, no one wants to have their head turned by that crazy approach. . A good strategy slide would take one-person half a day in our organisation. If it was easy they wouldn't pay us so much to produce it!