To be annoyed someone has lifted some of my work and used it in a presentation without at least asking?

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Fully prepared to be told I'm a grumpy, joyless shit lol

I have a niche knowledge base that is not common for where I work and I have been working on projects bringing some of my expertise into the field. Part of this was a training suite which has been going on for well over a year.

This week, I was on an unrelated training session and my ACTUAL EXACT work (not changed, exactly the same) was used. I didn't know it had been used in this way and no one has asked. I didn't even know it had been disseminated.

AIBU to be a bit peeved? (I am also a bit flattered, but mainly peeved)?

I'd deliver the intended training and say something like

"Some of you may recognise the next few slides, if you attended xxx training.
I'm so pleased the subject we are discussing today is being made available across our Organisation. If you have any questions, just let me know"

Incorrect. Anything produced while an employee belongs to the company. Of course we use our previous skills and experience to inform what we produce. Good God.

Anything I have already produced is of course a free for all, but as I have already explained, there is no onus on me to participate in future projects, share the knowledge in my head above and beyond my job description or put in additional hours of work to produce it (as I have done).

Like I have said multiple times now, a very big part of the issue is the way it has been used rather than it being used at all.

I feel quite happy with what I will do going forward but thanks everyone for your input :)

Fair enough. I've never worked in the sort of organisation OP is describing.

The ownership of intellectual property created by an employee isn’t affected by the type of organization they work for.

surely there is a clear difference between

Making a presentation/doing it at work/sending out the slides afterwards to everyone - someone uses same thing a year later in the organisation - fairly normal, nice if they ask/mention to you its being used/any updates etc?

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Working on something that is to be presented at some later point (so still draft/work in progress - may have some bits you KNOW are wrong/placeholders) and someone grabbing that off the server to use elsewhere without any checking.

if everything belongs to the company then how the hell did margaret thatcher write her memoir?? or even, funnily enough, nicola sturgeon, who is in the process of doing the same but when in court, she cannot recall a damn thing????

they are hardly going to admit guilt unless absolute necessary ?

MPs and more senior political leaders are not employed.
If they actually were employed, they could declare other work and a licence for a specific activity.
I'm not sure where you perceive links with someone who signed a standard contract with IP clauses stating that what they produce belongs to the employer?

This happened to me many years ago. I work in the NHS, also very niche role, only person in the (large) Trust doing this job. Really shocked to see my presentation being presented verbatim by a medical rep as her own work. Turned out a junior colleague from a different profession had sent it to her without my knowledge or permission.