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Ideal_Rock
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I have a coworker who works very hard to showcase any mistakes or errors I make to our boss. We don't work on that many things together but every time we do he can manage to make me appear stupid to the boss. We'll have a meeting and I follow up. Respond to the things I was supposed to follow-up on in an email. He'll then turn around and respond to my email and copy the boss stating why what I said on the email is not right. Often times he twists around what he originally wanted me to check out to make it seem like I didn't answer the issue or looked at it differently than what he was expecting. It really drives me nuts that he doesn't just call me or email me directly rather than cc our boss. The boss is busy enough that he shouldn't have to deal with this kind of stuff. Inevitibly I get an email back to the boss that says something like that praises my coworker for his ideas/solutions etc. So, the end result is I look bad to the boss. I try to do the followups verbally only because then he can't slam me on email but it doesn't always work.
I've had to deal with this guy for years. He just recently got promoted so now we report to the same supervisor. He used to do it to me before only cc his supervisor.
I am left just really wanting to punch him which I know is not the answer. Any ideas for CYA. My main goal is to avoid looking bad to the boss.
I guess my basic issue is that I am to nicely naive. I would never even think about doing this to someone else and am always surprised when they do it to me. I've learned with this guy to be careful but he still manages to do it to me.
I've had to deal with this guy for years. He just recently got promoted so now we report to the same supervisor. He used to do it to me before only cc his supervisor.
I am left just really wanting to punch him which I know is not the answer. Any ideas for CYA. My main goal is to avoid looking bad to the boss.
I guess my basic issue is that I am to nicely naive. I would never even think about doing this to someone else and am always surprised when they do it to me. I've learned with this guy to be careful but he still manages to do it to me.