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[quote=Anonymous]I could really use some advice.  Little background: my co-worker and I are both exec. level professionals -- our subject matter areas interact but are not the same.  This guy is considered a "great guy" by our CEO and he has basically only ever worked at this company.  He has not been helpful in any way to me since I joined (about a year ago) -- which is fine…but may be instructive.

I have worked on an major presentation (in my subject area expertise) and am set to present it to, among others, this co-worker's division.

In my organization, there is a "template" style presentation slide deck that all presentations are supposed to conform to.  I don't have access to that template, etc., so I was asked (by my boss) to send it to my co-worker who "would put it into the right format."  Well,  he kept it for 3 days and I got it back last night at 11pm!!  (Presentation is at noon today, by the way.)

Well, I open up the slide deck this morning and discover that he has made some changes to my presentation(!) without ever discussing them with me.  There aren't many changes and they are not substantive or material…but they are also not things I would have inserted.  This just seems like an obnoxious overstepping and pretty unprofessional.

What's worse, he changed the title page to say "materials complied by" [his name] and [my name]!!  This has just infuriated me.  I have worked on this presentation for months and it is my area.  I am told to send my presentation to him for what I was led to believe would be an admin/tech process of fitting it into the correct slide deck…but now, his name is on the presentation *as if* we've been collaborating on this thing substantively.

What would you do?  Any advice…again, I'm presenting at noon. [/quote]

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