UPDATE on the employee who took credit for his coworker’s project: ‘Apparently my coworker had presented my involvement as occasional support, not me doing significant parts of the work’

I was hooked on the first part, and I honestly never thought it would turn out this good for the objectively morally correct employee, but life seems to reward the good sometimes!We should take his story as an example or a to-do list for when we find ourselves trapped in a situation like this- when somebody else takes credit for something we did, especially in the workplace or university, for example.This never happened to me at work, but it happened to me repeatedly in school. People get really weird when they have to work as a team. In teams, we discover very valuable things about other people's characters and egos. Some people work without saying anything and add value to the team without getting their egos enmeshed in everything.To me, the worst kind of partner to work with is someone who'll think every good idea is their own, even if they weren't even present when it came up, and those who won't accept criticism, even in the slightest. Sadly, the world is full of those people, and part of the work is learning how to elude conflict with them and, hopefully, integrate them in a way that doesn't trigger their wounded egos.This employee already had a conflict with a personality l…

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