Plagiarism

I’ve been in my current industry for about 24 years, but have changed jobs a few times and moved back and forth between manufacturers and representative sales organizations. Yesterday a colleague sent me an email with a link to a trade magazine with an article written by the “magazine staff”. Now, I am not a writer and I just blog in an effort to maintain some semblance of writing skills. I find that as I get older, I need to exercise my gray matter to keep it sharp. Anyway, I read the article and it is about a product that one of my former employers sells. I pretty quickly realize that it is word for word from an application note that I had written while at that company and was signed “Magazine Name Staff”.

This ticks me off a little but hey, then again I guess I am now a ghost writer.