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I assume that most people deal with or have dealt with this issue in the past. How do you deal with it?

I work with someone who has been doing this a lot lately. She is new, but came in with a lot of experience and leap frogged me. Same level, but at a higher benchmark. That part doesn't bother me as her background justifies it. We are partnered up on a few projects and she is generally nice, besides this irritating issue.

But at least 3 times now, my boss has come to me and told me about these "great ideas" my new co-worker has regarding some of our projects, and they are all 100% straight from my mind. I wouldn't mind if she said; "we came up with this", and shared the credit, but yesterday I witnessed her flat out claim something that was mine. I created a tracking spreadsheet from scratch to help track some projects and do some quick calculations. I forwarded it to her to use and she then used it and forwarded the information in that format to the boss. Our boss then forwarded it to me telling me how sharp my co-worker was and that I should use it too. I read the email chain and my co-worker flat out took the praise for it and never mentioned that it was mine.

I ended up telling my boss that it was my system to begin with and then unloaded a little bit with the other ideas that were mine. I felt a little embarassed as I showed that I was a little upset. Was it petty to unload like that? It feels awkward around the office now because of it.