Re: Credit where credits due...

I've mentioned this before in a similar context. If you're not religious, you can still take a lesson from the parable of the vineyard and workers.

Master owns a big vineyard and the grapes are ready to harvest, nearly bursting, and bad weather is threatening to damage some of the crop before it can all be brought in. Master hires a number of gatherers first light and they go to work. Mid-day, gauging progress and feeling the winds shifting, master decides they need more help to make it on time, goes out and hires extra workers. Close to the end of the day, it's almost done but not quite, master brings in a few more guys for the last hour. Crop all in, he pays everyone off and wants to go home to dinner. But the foreman is upset.

"You paid those guys that just worked an hour the same amount that you paid us to work all day since morning!"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"That's just wrong!"

"What's wrong? Did I or did I not, pay you exactly what we agreed to this morning?"

"Well, sure."

"Who's money is it I paid with?"

"Yours".

"Do I or do I not have the right to do what I wish with my own money?"

"You do".

"Then don't be jealous of somebody else getting a good deal, when you yourself got a perfectly square one".


This is a story I have to tell myself quite often, as I think about other people taking credit for my work or having a success that eludes me. If no union or contractual obligations were broken in the way the credits were assigned, just let it go, brother. Just let it go.