I work in a law firm and have been grinding over a complicated licensing work of one Client for over one year. During this time, I acted as the primary contact point with the Client's team in almost every communication, including sending emails which they may find “hard to swallow” about the work process, and I took a bullet sometimes.
This week, that matter is finally done as the license for this Client is issued by the Government authority, and I was so eager to email them about this as I was on the way back to my office from the agency. However, my higher-rank colleague (also in the same team as me) asked that I would not say anything to them about the results yet, and let her finish the billing statement so that she will send them the bill as well as notify them about the results in one email. Of course, that email will include top executives of the Client company in the “CC”.
This really confused me, do you think this is some sort of “indirect” taking my credit for this work? I struggled for more than a year just to obtain this license, and think that I deserve to be the first one to notify the Client about this, not someone else.