As with everything it requires discretion, but avoid attributing bad intentions especially on first offenses. If someone forgets to credit you for work done, r

As with everything it requires discretion, but avoid attributing bad intentions especially on first offenses. If someone forgets to credit you for work done, reach out and let them know so they can correct it. There is a good chance that they just forgot. Now if this happens every time without fail, something is up and blindly assuming positive intent would just be naive. > asking them to assume positive intent from the other party is dismissing their experience of what happened and how they should feel about it. I'd disagree here. It isn't immediately dismissive but it is a chance to change their perspective. Should you let them stew in their anger because they think Bob hates them, or should you perhaps suggest that Bob's actions were a result of outside information unknown to them (obviously depends on each case)?