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Coworker accusing me of taking credit for his work.

So I work now at company Y (newish Job). I have been working with part of a small multi department team on a problem that my company needs to address in order to comply with state level compliance mandate (with shut down our business level consequences) and requires many millions of spend to comply with. We presented our findings and a few options to bring company to compliance to our leadership. Coworker A presented most of the slides (about 12) and I presented 2-3 slides regarding solutions as I was tasked by the team to investigate in further detail the solutions we had generated as a team. Coworker B provided some work with pricing estimates that were later slightly tweaked by the team before the meeting and he chimed in to explain how he got our cost figures from and why things would cost what they did while I spoke…


So I work now at company Y (newish Job). I have been working with part of a small multi department team on a problem that my company needs to address in order to comply with state level compliance mandate (with shut down our business level consequences) and requires many millions of spend to comply with.

We presented our findings and a few options to bring company to compliance to our leadership. Coworker A presented most of the slides (about 12) and I presented 2-3 slides regarding solutions as I was tasked by the team to investigate in further detail the solutions we had generated as a team. Coworker B provided some work with pricing estimates that were later slightly tweaked by the team before the meeting and he chimed in to explain how he got our cost figures from and why things would cost what they did while I spoke to the technical aspects.

Leadership found the presentation to be concise, informative and gave verbal praise to the team. And is in full support of our recommended solution. All around a big win and we even got buy in for things our operations team has asked for years. Team members all congratulated one another over the effort and presentation.

The next morning coworker B came over to my desk and accused me of not being a team player, taking credit for other people’s work and telling me he won’t work with the team anymore.

None of my other teammates share coworker B’s opinion and all praised that I was able to answer tough questions from leadership while still being rather new.

What do I do from here?

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