I HATE being one-upped.
First of all, I'm on medical leave from work, so if I make the effort to complete an assignment at home and send it in, someone please give me some credit.
I was assigned to make flyers last week. My boss sent me an email and asked if I could do it for her so I said I would do it. I drafted the design not only that day, but that HOUR, made all the edits I needed to within the next hour, and sent it in. That shows responsibility and competence if nothing else.
Honestly, nobody else would've done that.
This girl in the graphic design department made a flyer too, and I'll admit it was really good but I'm not in that department, am I? No, I am not, I'm in management. So the design I came up with was as great as someone who's not in the GD department could put together.
My boss really liked my flyer design, and said it was awesome and we were going to use that one, but everyone else made a big @#$% deal about the other flyer and said why don't we go with that one instead, so eventually majority ruled and they decided to use her stupid design instead.
This is where it gets REALLY bad. I made the effort to drive myself to the board meeting today, I'm STILL not supposed to go back to work until April, and I feel like crap. I just had surgery. I have a liver problem god damn it. I am not a happy person right now to begin with. I came into that meeting looking like absolute crap and they all know I just had not one but TWO surgeries.
Nobody even asked me to give my weekly update at the meeting even though I've done all my assignments from home and stayed up into insanely late and inappropriate hours of the night working on them. For the love of GOD, people.
So at the meeting they all announced that they were going to use the new flyer design, no one said anything to me about mine even though I know I did a good job on it. Instead they all congratulated my coworker about HER design and made a big flippin stink about THAT flyer. I swear everyone just wants to make me feel bad all the time.
My boss took me aside after and apologized, she's a good person and she really does understand, but unfortunately it's always "majority rules."
The guy I've been hanging out with from work tried to stand up for me but they don't really like him either so no one paid him any mind.
Why the [BEEP] does everything ALWAYS turn into a popularity contest?! That's what it is, you know. Just because I'm not popular and well-liked around the workplace and she is, she got the vote. Her design was good but it was NOT substantially better than mine.
I am so angry right now I don't even know what to say anymore.
Am I out of line, guys, for being upset about this? Am I just a self-indulged asshole? I really think this was wrong and it put me in a bad position.
I'm starting to dread going back to work next month. I'm a freaking MANAGER, for Pete's sakes. They could all just show a little respect once in a while.
UGGGGH FUUUUUUCKKK...