Department Update – Interview With Colin

We had a department update where the Head of Development, Head of Programme Management and other senior managers were doing presentations on aspects that are happening in the department.

I was well shocked when the Head of Development said he had a special guest, and the next section is Interview With Colin. He was being interviewed about the performance updates and the important bug fixes his team was doing. 

The thing is, his team has one of the best developers, David, and David had done ~90% of the work. Colin’s work was minimal and the work he had done didn’t work at all, until other developers had helped him.

Yet there he was, taking the credit for the work by doing this important-looking interview. The annoying thing is, when the Head of Development asked if he wanted to give any “shout-outs” he named several people, but didn’t name David.

There was even one improvement that was hyped up, but that was the first time I had heard about it. So I asked David when that was implemented. He said it was done by a different team, but Colin was basically claiming credit for leading it.

I don’t know how Colin has wormed his way to such status, but he seems to be held in high-regard by management.