krista4
Footballguy
I'm starting this with "I have a friend," which is not code for me. It really is a friend.
I have a friend at work, "M", who is celebrating her 13th anniversary with the company. (See, definitely not me, as I wouldn't work at the same place that long.) She received a congratulatory message from the head of the department, "K", which is great, except that instead of highlighting M's achievements with the company, K referenced a bunch of work that our other teammate "S" did. M reached out to me dismayed at this mistake but unsure whether she should just let it go or say something.
My advice to her was to say something, but make it into a positive to the extent possible. If I were K, I'd want to know even though I'd feel awful about it. She has several hundred people under her directly or indirectly, and M and S do the same job in the same group and both have "exotic" names (they are not actually M and S), but if I were her I'd want to know in order to make sure it never happened again.
I told M that she could approach it positively by writing back to thank K for the note and to emphasize a couple of reasons that she loves her job and colleagues so much that she's stayed for 13 years. Then say something about how she wouldn't want to take credit for someone else's work, so had to mention that S was actually the one who did that stuff. Then mention a couple of her own achievements (M actually just won a huge team award a couple of weeks ago for a project she did) with something like "S really enjoys that type of project, while I love working on [name a couple of the special notable projects she's done]." End by saying how she looks forward to many more years working on K's team.
What do you think? Any better ideas?
I have a friend at work, "M", who is celebrating her 13th anniversary with the company. (See, definitely not me, as I wouldn't work at the same place that long.) She received a congratulatory message from the head of the department, "K", which is great, except that instead of highlighting M's achievements with the company, K referenced a bunch of work that our other teammate "S" did. M reached out to me dismayed at this mistake but unsure whether she should just let it go or say something.
My advice to her was to say something, but make it into a positive to the extent possible. If I were K, I'd want to know even though I'd feel awful about it. She has several hundred people under her directly or indirectly, and M and S do the same job in the same group and both have "exotic" names (they are not actually M and S), but if I were her I'd want to know in order to make sure it never happened again.
I told M that she could approach it positively by writing back to thank K for the note and to emphasize a couple of reasons that she loves her job and colleagues so much that she's stayed for 13 years. Then say something about how she wouldn't want to take credit for someone else's work, so had to mention that S was actually the one who did that stuff. Then mention a couple of her own achievements (M actually just won a huge team award a couple of weeks ago for a project she did) with something like "S really enjoys that type of project, while I love working on [name a couple of the special notable projects she's done]." End by saying how she looks forward to many more years working on K's team.
What do you think? Any better ideas?