Boss is having others edit my work instead of providing me with feedback, am I over reacting?
So basically I was told to build a deck to send to present our work in PowerPoint. I built this deck, sent it to my boss and told them to let me know if I have to make any changes (assuming I would because this was a first draft). The next time I opened it I noticed another employee who was not on the project making edits. Small things alignment changes and font changes. This confused me though because if there were edits to be made, why not provide that feedback to me? Especially things so easy to fix? Am I over thinking this or am I right to be confused? I am assuming my boss asked this new employee to make edits because otherwise they would not have access to the file. I feel like he didn’t just provide me with the feedback because he thinks I’m incapable of making the changes
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Anonymous
I can see why you were surprised but I also think it's not necessary to bring this up as an issue. When you next talk with him or her (NOT email) you might say: X person made some small edis which is great, and now that I know what you're looking for, I'll be sure to submit my work that way. It might be that your boss gives more mundane tasks to someone who is paid less and lets ppl who are paid more work on content--you did say this is a new omployee. It could have nothing to do with you and wanting to do it yourself might be seen as you wanting to spend your more highly paid time working on fonts, when your boss doesn't want you to do. Just follow the edito's lead and turn your work in that way and perhaps it'll never be edited again. COuld be a win-win for you if you handle it correctly
Anonymous
Please see if your organization has brand guidelines that you can follow or a PowerPoint product called PitchPro+ which overlays org-approved formatting. I get this was you first time doing a slide deck in this role but no one should have to go in and make font changes and align content.
If your boss asked this other person to edit your work and they accepted all of their updates and copy edits, I’d pay very close attention to the final product so you can learn and quickly adapt to their style.
If this was a high-visibility project, I don’t think anything is wrong collaborating with other colleagues. My experience tells me you’ll get a better end product.
Anonymous
Gold idea! Can you do it in Google Drive? I know you can in word and excel - never tried in PP