I want more input and more credit 1

[DoubleV]

we have a huge project where a web site is just a part of it, and we have somebody (not me) working on that project. the person is like a creative director although technically he is not employed by our company (it is complicated *lol*). yet, he never did a web site design before. I am actually employed by teh company and my title is a web designer and developer.

the problem I have with the situation is that he seems to view me as "a girl who will code the web site". for example, first he designed a web site template without talking to me even once. then he came to me and I had to explain to him why it will not work. How about talking to me first to find some stuff out? In the end, the layout was a collaboration between him and I. He executed the graphical side of it. But the way he behaves is as if its his only. He communicates with our distributors in that fashion and it bugs me a great deal. He pretty much just tells me about things, but doesn't really ask my opinion. I try to inject it anyway because I am the web designer, but even when he listens and agrees, I don't feel like I receive the credit for it, because he still keeps talking about it (to me and to others) like this project is his own baby (and only his). He talks to the distributors as if he is the sole person responsible for that site. Yesterday he was standing by the corner of my work table (I was sitting at my chair) talking to a distributor describing to him all the stuff like it's his sole baby and not even mentioning my name. Now, he is responsible for that entire project huge project and as i said the web site is just a part of it. I am not trying to claim the credit for laying out business cards or whatever. But the web site is not just his!


He sits right next to me and as I am typing this I hear him speak with one of our distributors. Yesterday we have looked at the home page of the new site and I said that we can have a pool of images and every time a page refreshes, a random image could be shown. I have told him how I can make it happen (not just teh fact that I can, but have also explained how it will work) so that the distributors will be able to insert their own images there and update them as they want. Right now he is saying to that woman "and WE can make it so that ... " Who the hell is WE? he is taking her through the site telling her this is gonna be here, this is gonna be there, blah blah blah. No my name in sight. we don't even have a cube. it's an open space and I am not invited to participate in the conversation.

I want more input and more recognition for the input I have already provided. I am more then just somebody who will do HTML. But, again, the way he communicates with others does not show that at all.

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[Dollie]

I think LTeeple has the right idea, and indirectly, so does Nortellian.

There are an awful lot of people that don't even have jobs to complain about. Receiving credit is nice, receiving a check for it is nicer.

If you truly want credit for your work, don't forget that communication is the strongest tool you can utilize on the job. If you keep your head down and just grumble about him calling you "the girl who will code the web site", it's more than likely that it will stay that way. As a woman, believe me, I've had more than my share of men who are a bit bigoted in their views of women in IT. If you don't open your mouth, no one is going to do it for you.

Everyone at my company knows that I'm the IT person to come to with any problem, and they also know not to treat me like "some girl". That's also something I make perfectly clear on a daily basis with my knowledge, poise, and performance.

 

[rosieb]

DoubleV
If you want credit, you have to obtain visibility. Get out there and talk to people, ask what they want/need and then make sure you say "OK, I can do that for you" then follow up, ask if what you've done is what they want, or can you improve it?

Once the users know it's you, it becomes much harder for someone else to claim credit.

(My experience, a good manager gives credit to staff, then takes credit for having such superb staff.)

Rosie
"Never express yourself more clearly than you think" (Niels Bohr)