jari001
Chemical
- Aug 9, 2013
- 478
I just wanted to pass along a curious experience I had and ask a tangential question.
My colleague (colleague A) spent the last two months developing and completing completely new risk assessments for the process we are re-commissioning. He was very successful in this task and delivered ahead of the project schedule, but he asked for some help on the risk assessment from another colleague(colleague B). B has been pushing this idea that he did more than half the work and was super clever to be able to manage his workload and help out. He contributed maybe 2 days worth of work? I was doing all the documentation polishing and it was very evident to me that A spent a lot of late nights putting these documents together.
Personally, I just can't stand this type of behavior and I wouldn't have any qualms directly calling out someone's BS if they tried it on me, but A isn't the type to assert himself and make B stop. I intervened with the project manager so that when he gives the project review, he'll tell the upper management exactly who deserves kudos for what. I just made it very clear that I admired A for their hard work and how much they contributed to the project and that B wasn't so instrumental in the risk assessment part of the project. I am the least experienced engineer on the project, so I didn't speak from a position of influence I just thought it was the right thing to do.
If you were the project manager, how would you view my actions? Would you take into consider the content of what I told you or is speaking ill (however mildly) of a colleague an unforgivable act? I don't regret speaking up, but I wonder if being blunt was best or if I should have used more flowery language.
My colleague (colleague A) spent the last two months developing and completing completely new risk assessments for the process we are re-commissioning. He was very successful in this task and delivered ahead of the project schedule, but he asked for some help on the risk assessment from another colleague(colleague B). B has been pushing this idea that he did more than half the work and was super clever to be able to manage his workload and help out. He contributed maybe 2 days worth of work? I was doing all the documentation polishing and it was very evident to me that A spent a lot of late nights putting these documents together.
Personally, I just can't stand this type of behavior and I wouldn't have any qualms directly calling out someone's BS if they tried it on me, but A isn't the type to assert himself and make B stop. I intervened with the project manager so that when he gives the project review, he'll tell the upper management exactly who deserves kudos for what. I just made it very clear that I admired A for their hard work and how much they contributed to the project and that B wasn't so instrumental in the risk assessment part of the project. I am the least experienced engineer on the project, so I didn't speak from a position of influence I just thought it was the right thing to do.
If you were the project manager, how would you view my actions? Would you take into consider the content of what I told you or is speaking ill (however mildly) of a colleague an unforgivable act? I don't regret speaking up, but I wonder if being blunt was best or if I should have used more flowery language.