I may be a "team player" but I'm not a pushover

[missdiane]

I helped out the evil empire business/budget/hr fiefdom by per-request-on-the-fly putting together an explanation of the funding I administer and the last three years of total award information. I also sent them a PDF of a powerpoint presentation that I was asked to put together but never got the opportunity to present about how the USDA land grant formulas are calculated and how our numbers stack up vs our Northeast US region as well as how we stack up against the other Universities in the Big 10 Conference. On the original slides, I didn't bother putting my name or the data source since it was going to be a presentation given by me to our internal group.

The big bossaroonie of the fiefdom popped by my office just a little bit ago and asked if I could edit the data source information in because now they're all hyped to share it with the University's Chancellor's office. You betcha! So I added the appropriate text box to the slides

...ADDITIONALLY I made sure to add my name, title and office information to the intro slide AND restricted the ability to edit or extract the information when I turned the PPT into a PDF. I know if the Chancellor's office has any questions, they're going to have to come back to me to get answers since I seem to be the Keeper of All Knowledge but damn I'm gonna get my name out to the higher ups at the University for proper credit. And maybe one day a job or something.

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[halfmoon_mollie1]

very smart of you.

[missdiane]

Credit to Emily for asking when I originally sent it if it had my name so I'm glad I got a chance to sneak it in.

Evidently Bosslady was going on to Elaine about how the Feds recruit me for things. Yeah, not that it has yet to pay out for me but yep, I get asked to serve on steering and advisory committees.