Angry re work post editing

[PissoffMissmopp]

Ask me my history, MY HISTORY, my opinion for a generalised social media work post.

No problem, questions answered and info given.

Only to find I have been heavily edited. Nothing I said was offensive, only that I never would have picked my current career for myself. Someone who knew me better than I knew myself picked it.

And I am angry. BECAUSE THIS IS MY LIFE AND THESE ARE MY WORDS.

Who has the right to ask me my history and rewrite it?

How can I address this? This matters to me. I am not a fucking sound bite or a video clip. I am not being precious, I have worked my fucking arse off to be where I am.

Gosh. You sound very cross.

Hard to comment on the information given. Is this a work promo thing or a family thing?

Hope you are ok

I am very cross. It was a work thing I was asked to contribute to. But a lot of what I contributed means a lot to me.

I wasn't asked if an edit was approved. My life has been edited. I would rather have no post at all, no comments and no contribution than have something so important to me be edited.

Meh presumably it was posted somewhere by your work eg a website, a newsletter, an email - companies have comms teams for a reason. It's their job to edit content. If it was so important to you that your words were used exactly as provided then you should have clarified the process before agreeing to submit.
Send them an email asking for your content to be removed. They'll probably be quite happy to delete it.

If it misrepresents you I would email the person who interviewed me for it and tell them I think it misrepresents me want it removing from publication.

If it leaves out a bit of the story that is important but what is there is still a true picture, I think it's more difficult. If the bit left out has some connection to a protected characteristic, I might write an email emphasising this and asking for the removed/glossed over bit to be reinstated. If not I would probably email saying I was displeased at the way they've edited the story and why and I would mention to my manager that I felt it was a really disrespectful way for the company to treat me, but I probably wouldn't take it further than that. It's hard to say, without knowing details, how serious it is and what is a proportionate response/likely to get you the most of what you want.

As such a very clear writer, it's shocking that they felt the need to edit you.

Ask them to remove it.

A hit. A palpable hit

Jesus why be so nasty to someone upset and asking for help.

OP I agree that the key distinction is between whether it misrepresents you or whether it simply doesn't say everything.

I've been thinking about this, and I honestly can't remember ever having a work bio-type thing appear without some edits. Always something innocuous - I certainly don't recall being peeved about it. But this seems much more profound than that - can you give more context? Was your personal history a key part of the work itself?

Could it be they didn’t have the space to use everything you said to edited it down to an acceptable word count? It would have been polite to check you were happy with the edited copy before it went to print.

I used to edit the letters page of a national paper. It's amazing how many people who wrote in to comment about the NHS or a comic we printed felt like this about their deathless missives, and how outrageous it was that we had edited them for length and clarity.

Were they writing your biography, though? Is it meant to be your life story?

Comms teams don't have time to run final edits past everyone who submits content or who they interview. No-one ever thinks they need edited but invariably they do. If every interviewee had final sign-off, nothing would ever get printed.

I work in comms and if it was a profile type piece I would run it past the person again once I had edited it.

If easy enough to get the post removed / website edited.

Just calm down and then - politely - email them and say you're not that happy and can you discuss and redo it.

I am not being precious

You do sound a little bit precious based on the information you've given us.

I edit things for work and without knowing exactly what you wrote and exactly what they amended it to, it's their job and on current information YABU.

I was bloody cross as it related to the reason for my choice of career, which was my dad's advice and input. And he's dead and this really matters to me as I am his legacy.

I will not contribute to anything similar going forward. I feel like my manager has directly edited me, and I actually think a lot of my manager and did not expect this. Which makes it almost more hurtful?

I am not generally a whinger. But I do have PMT so feel free to deal me YABU if deserved.

Ta!

Are you going to speak to them about it? As I said if you can calmly explain why it was important to you that your dad's input was mentioned they can edit it.

Well, my dear.

I look forward with earnest to your next publication.

#upyoursandihopeitstings

Also totally aware of name change. Still happy for you to stick it 😂