Got a friend/worker type question. Anyway, I started at a new company and they assigned this person to show me around and help me get comfortable to the area–the job and places to live, etc. So there came in the friendship. Well, I also began working on a project with this person. I was the project the manager on the project. The person had a run-in with their manager about the work they were doing on the project saying that this person was not valuable on the project at all. However, there is a lot we would have not accomplished without this person’s help. The person menitoned it to and I told this person I would followup maybe with a thank you note from me and maybe our sponsor and copy their manager on it just to make the manager aware that we did appreciate this person’s contribution to the project. But I didn’t. Instead I went on vacation and came back. I remembered the issue, but not what I had promised. I mentioned it to the sponsor on my project who thought it was more of this friend just unloading their cares on me so the sponsor agreed that for future tasks we’ll play up this person’s contributions (of course, if they are there and are favorable). Considering so much time had past, I thought that would probably be better than drudging up the past so I agreed that would be good.
In hindsight, I thought I should go back and mention to the sponsor that this was really a project management issue rather than a friend issue. We could still stick to theplan, but I especially just don’t want to be known as someone who brings up personal issues, because I am very good at keeping work and social life separate.
So anyway, do you think I should a) just leave it alone. b) Wait and see if it comes around again. c) Go back and clarify my stand on mentioning the issue in the first place.