Monday 4th April 2008

I started to feel a little guilty over the weekend.

Perhaps Matthew doesn’t really deserve to be vilified in such a way. Maybe he’s just misguided. Maybe he needs a gentle nudge, not a painful jolt of ‘makemepoopnow’. Perhaps I could guide him, try to make him a better person? Or perhaps… and this was the thought that made me sweat… perhaps he’s really not all that bad and perhaps I’m just jealous of him.

That was until I got into work this morning and was pulled into a conference room by our supervisor, Lynn.

Lynn is a curious creature. She looks a lot like Magda from ‘There’s Something About Mary’, and has clearly seen a lot of trauma in her life. She is full of tales of woe and hardship, and continually finds new examples to explain why she thinks that the world is against her.

Lynn sat me down and explained to me that a training manual that I had written some months ago, and which management had decided to not use; had turned up in the hands of Matthew. Matthew made some changes (i.e. the NAME OF THE AUTHOR!), resubmitted it, and is to get the credit for its publication. You see, now there’s a business need for it. So it’s being used.

I walked away, shaking my head… thinking ‘the cheeky little fucker’. But what should I do?

I think that instead of making an official complaint, doing this the ‘right way’, I’m just going to up the ante and mess with him some more.