Sharing work

Today I was told by my manager that another designer wanted to handle some of my work. I felt confused and concerned and said to him that I wasn't sure where that was coming from. We had had a conversation about checking in with each other, or so I thought, but nothing about sharing work.

So I asked the other designer about it, and he said he had offered to help streamline some of my work. I feel annoyed by this and confused. And scared of holding work back. I had the thought, I don't want to be accused of holding back work, or even accurately identified as being fearful of having work taken away from me.

I had feelings of being trapped and scared. I told him to give me a minute to think about it. I wasn't able to look at the work in its entirety because I dont' have access to the admin page yet.

I sat down and asked myself, where is there complexity i'm unsure of so far, and I idnetified this one page that had more questions. And I told him he could go ahead since I'm blocked on it anyway, and just skip this one page.

I feel good with this compromise. But I am feeling a little bit shaken when I have thoughts about how someone else could show me up with work. I had the thought my work boundaries were being violated and I had feelings of being both upset and afraid. And i also thought i didn't want to come off as non-cooperative.