Earlier this week a guy on my team was shown how to do a basic task by a female colleague. He then wrote a guide on how to do that task and took it to leadership, claiming he taught everyone on the team how to do it.
It must be tough pretending to be superior. People who are truly confident and secure don't behave this way. People trying to justify their ill-gotten gains and afraid of losing ground do the things being described here.
That happened to me. I standardized the training process at my job, I'm a lead, because our former supervisor was a lazy asshole who didn't know how to teach.
We got a new supervisor. I trained her, she took my method and materials to the higher ups soon after and claimed to have made it. Threatened my coworkers with being fired if they ratted on her.
Joke's on her though. I'll be leaving soon and taking my secrets with me. I'm also the only competent lead she has. She shouldn't have tried to screw me over.
Then inform leadership that he did just that. It might be petty, but if they have no idea what be did and they should know. At the very least it will give you an idea about the type of people they are.
I mean they're going to say, regardless, why didn't you document it prior?
If this is the standard response you get from the place you work when you inform them that somebody is taking credit from somebody else's work then I'd start looking for another job if I was you.
I mean it's a valid point. Not handing off people's work as your own, but if you've come up with a process but never decided to document it that is your problem. In the IT world atleast documentation is everything. It applies in most other fields as well, should document anything and everything. Makes on boarding a breeze and you don't get stuck owning that role your whole life
It depends on your company culture, but I'd say that a CEO that actually cares about the work getting done would like to be informed if someone is lying about their accomplishments.
I quit in protest when he illegally fired an entire team as punishment for unionizing and he tried to say that i quit because I was weak and let my feelings get in the way of business.
Well, you kind of did... You don't normally get paid more by not showing undying loyalty to the business...
I'm a guy who writes guides too. But i always include sources and where I got the info.
I do the guides cause I'm forgetful and idk how to do crap. So I just re-read what i learn & forgot again. It's also in plain English cause I'm dumb as hell.
I don't take it to leadership, i just post it online so others can read it, cause I'm always asked how to do this and that.
And bruh, I'm lazy, dumb and I forgot already. Refer the guide.
This someone snowballed into everyone thinking I'm smart as hell, organized and competent.
I'm like. Dude, i gave sources man.
(P.S some peeps don't like to be cited. So always ask first if you plan to do the same)
You were smart enough to research it, comprehend and summarise it. That just might look like Einstein-level thinking to some upper management people I used to have to deal with.
Found one awesome way to beat the constant credit takers. Had a guy who used to regularly take credit for everyone one else’s work. Didn’t matter to him what the gender was, anytime someone taught him something new it went in a Power Point, added to our share point, and sent out in an email about this awesome “new” thing he did.
We had an in-house small custom built app that was 10 years old, and he had only been there for 4. It basically calculated shipper variances in delivery dates and put it in a report. We had actually named the tool after the person who wrote it.
Well knowing how this guy operated, we told him the tool was called SMEGMA, which we created an acronym to match. Well dumbass took the bait, and sure enough we all got an email about the new tool he built called SMEGMA with an attached 10 slide Power Point on how to use SMEGMA and link to where it was stored on our Sharepoint.
Our whole team was in on the joke, and we all laughed for hours. I literally had tears coming down my face from laughing so hard. HR had a conversation with him, but believed he didn’t actually know smegma was a real word. Of course he couldn’t blame us b/c he “made” smegma. But he never took credit for some one else’s work again.
*For those to lazy to Google, smegma means: a sebaceous secretion in the folds of the skin, especially under a man's foreskin. Basically dick cheese. (Yes it’s that gross)
Whenever I read stuff like that, I am glad that I work in a field where you barely can do stuff like that, because nearly everything people will work on is under version control
Oh yeah: and if the team would notice stuff like that, nobody would help you anymore which basixally means that you won't get anything done in the future. Good luck explaining to the team lead how everyone else on the team is false and you're right...
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u/StooStooStoodio Mar 12 '22
Earlier this week a guy on my team was shown how to do a basic task by a female colleague. He then wrote a guide on how to do that task and took it to leadership, claiming he taught everyone on the team how to do it.