We do have processes AND policy in place to make sure this doesn't happen. But it can still happen unintentionally and when it does, we react activity and proactively.
And spam the guys twitter saying he is overreacting and that its ridiculous that hes getting the slightest bit annoyed at the fact that you ripped his work off? Wow.. Just WOW.
Excellent point re: reacting proactive-ly. At some point you've taken so many action items on-board, uplifted so much capability and re-purposed to much content that all the corporate buzz-words just start making perfect sense.
By telling the original authors you'll be sure to 'steer clear' of them in the future for being upset that they weren't credited until it made you look like an ass? Yikes.
This was not unintentional, though. The writer clearly took a screenshot of someone else's work and made no effort to even credit work that should not have been used in the first place.
talk about a great way to ruin a company image... just shows that a company can't do this anymore to the masses, the people are not as silenced. Its now actually in a companies best intrest to be legitimate ;)
That does not parse but I think you're confusing aggressively with actively and proactively with defensively.
All at once. And you look pretty silly in the process.
Just apologize to the guy, make sure you'll never do it again.
As long as you keep spinning this will make you look worse and worse.
It's obvious that you don't have a process in place because then this would not happen.
This was not unintentional, there is 0 chance of that.
Nobody copies a chunk of text like that unintentional, nobody behaves like you did in this thread and elsewhere unintentional.
The cover-up is worse than the crime, if you had been a responsible adult about this in the first place it would have gone away long ago.
It was dumb. Only you can stop it.