Senior IC - pat Me - Harry (same level as pat) Front end junior j Manager (belongs to same place of origin as harry and rad) Rad - junior j (who works on small tasks, same region of origin as manager) Pat is assigned to design a new feature. But after the initial design the project is shelved for 6 months. Harry(me) is assigned this new feature to be taken up and implemented. Why - I don't know. But Pat has not worked on this tech stack, so may be declined to work here, while he is busy owning another modern tech stack. Harry analyzes the initial design, and makes a updated design. Also makes design doc for implementation as the high level design is too "high level" . Presents it. Gets approval. Does a lot of cross team discussions to get everything right. Then makes a estimated time, tracking sheets, sprint planning, task creation. Does all the backend work and api creation. Helps junior engineer to do the front end work. Presents the final outcome and deploys to prod. Project completion appreciation email (from manager) with a list of names in the order of major contributions. Name 1 - Pat. Name 2 - harry.. Name 3 - front end guy. Rad gets promoted to senior (paradox of life)
ISWYDT
It’s grey area actually , we need to hear what Pat has to say about this also to make this a fair poll. It’s not actually fair or discrimination really. But then again you shouldn’t care about the appreciation email from the manager, he should show appreciation in terms of compensation and appraisal
It's fair for pat.
It's good to see that the manager still remembers that Pat had worked on it. An appreciation email doesn't help you much, but having a good work relationship would benefit. Now Pat is obligated to give feedback on the work you executed. If you think it was significant, then don't mess it up.
What I’ve learned is you define where to draw the line and when someone crosses it, you change teams/managers or better, organizations. Life is too short to be unhappy with it. Career is even shorter.
Did this email come with a bonus attached to it or something? Move on.
Remember, you own nothing but the skills you learned during the project… if you did not get satisfaction from process then you doing job that you do not enjoy 🤷♂️ stop collecting trophy’s and start enjoying process
Life is unfair, you all are pawns as ICs
Nothing worth worrying about. No one reads that email, but everyone around you will know who did what exactly.