The Screenshot That Got Forwarded to HR

ok so I need to tell you something and you CANNOT tell anyone

so you know the new team leader, Derek?

yes him. ok so at the team meeting on friday, he took credit for MY project report. in front of everyone. my name wasn't even mentioned once

yes way. I worked on that thing for THREE weeks. he literally just read my slides and acted like they were his ideas

no I froze. I didn't know what to do. everyone was nodding and congratulating HIM

honestly dani between us I think he's completely useless as a manager. like he has no idea what he's doing and he just takes other people's work

I just don't understand how he even got the job. his CV must have been full of lies

maybe but I'm so angry right now I can't think straight. anyway please don't say anything to anyone ok? I just needed to vent

dani what is going on

I just got an email from HR asking me to come in for a meeting tomorrow morning

it just says "regarding a complaint about workplace conduct". that's it. nothing else

conduct? what conduct? I haven't done anything wrong

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hi Marcus... of course, what is it?

what

a screenshot of WHAT conversation

thank you Marcus. I really appreciate you telling me

hey. I need to ask you something directly and I need you to be honest with me

did you take a screenshot of our conversation from Monday and send it to HR

because HR has a screenshot of someone saying that Derek's CV was full of lies. the only person I said that to was you

explain what exactly

you showed it to someone else

I specifically said CANNOT TELL ANYONE

I have an HR meeting tomorrow because of this dani

please do that. and dani... I need some time after this ok

sent these to the HR manager as proof. every email, every draft, every timestamp. they can see exactly who did the work.

it went... ok actually. better than I expected. I showed them all my files and the HR manager was really professional. she said the, um, the private nature of the original message was already taken into account — I think Dani must have gone in last night like she said. they're looking into the project credit issue now too, which — yeah, that's kind of big. I'm still shaken but... I think I'm going to be ok.

thanks Marcus. and thank you for warning me. I wouldn't have been ready without that

yeah. it does.

but thank you for going in last night. that helped