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What should I do in this situation?
Yesterday at work, my SE left a list of entries he's planning on submitting for design awards. There were lists for a special section category, a list for individual page designs and a list for a portfolio category. It's all in his handwriting so I have no idea what contest or contests this is for, but he had written those categories down himself, with different dates/titles for entry.
Anyway, I was glancing down the list of what he appears to be planning on entering, when I came across two pages I did. At first I thought, "Oh, cool, he's actually going to enter some of my stuff." Generally, he only ever enters his own work, and except for the two, every other page there was his. The two pages he's selected are even two that I'm particularly proud of -- two that I would say are among my three or four best from 2006. But then I realize something -- he's entering them in the portfolio category, and he's got them mixed in with a bunch of his pages. Essentially, he's claiming two of my best designs as his own to enter them into a portfolio contest. After all, page designs don't get bylines the way stories do, so who's going to know one way or the other who did the design -- except that I know for an absolute fact I did both of those. In fact, on one of them he's got two bylines from a deadline event 45 minutes away, so there's no possible way he did that layout. That also, in my mind at least, eliminates the possiblity that this is just an innocent mistake -- he knows he didn't do that layout because his stories are the two biggest on the page. The other page I suppose could be a mistake -- neither of us has a byline in that issue, so there's really no way to tell for sure who did it, except that I know it's mine because I remember being very proud of that page and keeping it for my portfolio. But the fact that he's picked two of my pages, and two of my best at that, makes the possiblity of innocent mistake seem unlikely.
What should I do? Should I say something to him, or to the managing editor, who takes all the pages the librarian collects and mails them in for the contest. Or should I just ignore it -- after all, it doesn't affect me in any way, really. He's obviously interested in entering only his own work, so it's not like he's costing me an opportunity to win. And there's no money or anything else of value on the line, except maybe pride, so in the grand scheme this isn't really a big deal. My only thought as far as that is concerned is that if he actually does win something or place, he's prevented somebody more deserving, somebody who entered their own work, from winning.
So what do the fine folks at sj think I should do, because as I said, I'm kinda torn.
Yesterday at work, my SE left a list of entries he's planning on submitting for design awards. There were lists for a special section category, a list for individual page designs and a list for a portfolio category. It's all in his handwriting so I have no idea what contest or contests this is for, but he had written those categories down himself, with different dates/titles for entry.
Anyway, I was glancing down the list of what he appears to be planning on entering, when I came across two pages I did. At first I thought, "Oh, cool, he's actually going to enter some of my stuff." Generally, he only ever enters his own work, and except for the two, every other page there was his. The two pages he's selected are even two that I'm particularly proud of -- two that I would say are among my three or four best from 2006. But then I realize something -- he's entering them in the portfolio category, and he's got them mixed in with a bunch of his pages. Essentially, he's claiming two of my best designs as his own to enter them into a portfolio contest. After all, page designs don't get bylines the way stories do, so who's going to know one way or the other who did the design -- except that I know for an absolute fact I did both of those. In fact, on one of them he's got two bylines from a deadline event 45 minutes away, so there's no possible way he did that layout. That also, in my mind at least, eliminates the possiblity that this is just an innocent mistake -- he knows he didn't do that layout because his stories are the two biggest on the page. The other page I suppose could be a mistake -- neither of us has a byline in that issue, so there's really no way to tell for sure who did it, except that I know it's mine because I remember being very proud of that page and keeping it for my portfolio. But the fact that he's picked two of my pages, and two of my best at that, makes the possiblity of innocent mistake seem unlikely.
What should I do? Should I say something to him, or to the managing editor, who takes all the pages the librarian collects and mails them in for the contest. Or should I just ignore it -- after all, it doesn't affect me in any way, really. He's obviously interested in entering only his own work, so it's not like he's costing me an opportunity to win. And there's no money or anything else of value on the line, except maybe pride, so in the grand scheme this isn't really a big deal. My only thought as far as that is concerned is that if he actually does win something or place, he's prevented somebody more deserving, somebody who entered their own work, from winning.
So what do the fine folks at sj think I should do, because as I said, I'm kinda torn.
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