Do you see your peers at work as friends, enemies, or don't care?
In other words, if your peers seem to be "friendly" to you, often helpful, do you know if he/she is "stabbing your back"?
My friends, I don't have answers to these questions. Honestly, I do what is right, and straight from my heart. If someone is "stabbing my back", so be it and I will let the truth (and facts) be my lawyer to fight for me.
However, I do have two advices: be honest, and keep your e-mail. Something you wrote and saved four years ago could end up saving your job. I was called to attend a meeting to explain why we did not implement a redundant design for this critical customer. The account team said I didn't mention it as necessary. What a BS. I pulled out two e-mails I sent to the account team four years ago highlighting the requirements and justifications to install the redundant components for this customer. My manager was also cc'ed in the original e-mails. It turned out that the account team never relayed my messages to my customer because of the fears of additional money will be required to enhance the network which may upset the customer. Go figure. One day there was a cut in the fiber at the customer headquarters and without the redundancy in place the customer was down for a few days. The total business losses had exceeded the total cost of the redundant components by tens of thousands.
Do what you think is right and don't be afraid.
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for your case ... it happened to me before... the "high level" design change ... yes ... and i agree that always keep some records for your work ... to defend yourself (or to apply for a new job as a 'great project' that worth mentioning...)
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