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Boss take credit for your work? |
| Message Name: |
Perverse Spying |
| Date Posted: |
05/20/2005 |
| Message: |
I'm a junior associate at a midsize firm. Recently I realized that one of the other senior female associates has been accessing and looking at the documents I create - she'll access my docs at least twice a week, and will look at anything I created, from memos to self, to legal memoranda, research, notes, calendars, etc. Oftentimes she looks at the documents during off hours or on the weekends. She is neither my boss nor my supervisor; and we don't even work on the same cases. I know for a fact that she does this with other people's documents as well, but not as extensively as she does with mine. While this isn't illegal or anything it bothers me, and it's just the strangest behavior I have seen. My instinct tells me that she feels insecure and competitive and somehow is looking at the various assignments I have for whatever reason. I've already compiled a spreadsheet detailing her access to my documents and in one month she accessed 40 different documents that I had created. What do you suggest I do? No one seems to have any idea how to approach this problem, but everyone realizes it's just bizarre and perverse. Please help! I have thought of creating dummy documents, or teaming up with other associates, but I need some real pros and cons of even going to the managing partner. My biggest concern is that someone might actually think this is normal behavior. While I am respected for my work and well liked at the firm I have been there only two years versus her four years, so........
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