Credit where credit is due

SimonS

OK, we've got this division-wide presentation next week and I've just found out that the project I did architecture for, has someone else listed under that role. <FUMING /> :mad: This is such b.s. So, a nice opportunity for exposure goes to someone who didn't even do the work. :wtf: Any ideas on how I should handle this hot potatoe? Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter. animation mechanics in SVG

Paul Watson

SimonS wrote: Any ideas on how I should handle this hot potatoe? Wait till they come back to you with a bug in the system that needs fixing. Then say "Sorry, I cannot help. As this document shows Dick Clark did it, not me, better go ask him." ;) Ok, seriously: Be pro-active and take it up with the project lead, don't sit quitely hoping someone else will realise the mistake. But don't seem like a whiner trying to get his due. I would probably say something like "Hi Pointy Haired Boss. I noticed Dick Clark has been mistaken with doing that project. If there are any problems then I am the better one to handle them as I did the project, so I would advise my name being put there for contact and support purposes." My wording is a bit odd but you get the general gist? Try and make it in their best interest to have your name there rather than Dick Clarks.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

SimonS

Paul Watson wrote: take it up with the project lead And if there in lies the problem? Paul Watson wrote: don't sit quitely I don't. I just don't like getting shafted. Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter. animation mechanics in SVG

Paul Watson

SimonS wrote: And if there in lies the problem? Doh. That bites. And it does very little good going above his head, will just worsen the relationship, unless you really know his boss well. *sigh* Can't really help much more. Here at BG we are all very open and regularly tell the boss to get shafted if he says something stupid. Very little bureaucracy.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

SimonS

Paul Watson wrote: Here at BG we are all very open and regularly tell the boss to get shafted if he says something stupid. Very little bureaucracy. :-D:cool: You still have my CV. ;) Seriously, that sounds cool and at least you don't waste time with unnecessary politics and krap. And, let me guess, you actually enjoy going to work, don't you? Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter. animation mechanics in SVG

realJSOP

Attend the presentation and ask questions the other person couldn't possibly know the answers to. 2) Dress up in a chicken suit and attempt to draw attention from the other person by running around the autiorium while moo'ing like a cow. 3) Get a mohawk haircut, dye your hair purple, and heckle him from the front row. 4) Setup a rear-projection display behind him, and show slides of the person in comprimising sexual situations. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

Chris Austin

This is infuriating. The same thing happened to me at a large company that manufactures DSPs two years ago. It was a very big project that was going to save my division approx. $500K / month; and I drove it from concept to completion. But when it was time to present the project and data I wasn’t even invited to the meeting. I told my PHB that it must be a mistake; but I got the “hmm…. Were going to have so and so present the data. He really needs the exposure.” Problem was he didn’t even assist me on the project. But he sure got buddy-buddy with me when he was trying to prepare for the meeting. Two weeks later I quit and left my manager to find someone else to implement my project that I spent 25 weeks developing. "Veni, Vidi, Booyah!" - Ceasar

Michael A Barnhart

SimonS wrote: Paul Watson wrote: take it up with the project lead And if there in lies the problem? Not knowing any details, I ask the following. Who is the presentation for? Is it taking credit or putting themselves in the position to getting all of the worthless interuptions that they do not want to have you waste your time with, because you are so valuable? I have been in both situations. I have a meeting in 2 weeks that I am really trying to get my manager to put his name as the POC! I do not want to be for this group!:) "I will find a new sig someday."