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How do you deal with a credit-stealing boss?
Ahhhhh…office politics cause me so much unnecessary stress.
My manager has a habit of exaggerating her involvement in projects that I’ve worked on. She doesn’t come right out and say that she did the entire project but she is definitely extending the truth and she knows it. Normally I let it go because I’m a behind-the-scenes kind of person and I don’t mind letting her take the limelight.
However, it has gotten out of hand this week. I’ve been working on a project in the past few weeks that has primarily been my work. She started the project but I volunteered to take it off her hands because she is overloaded – I stepped up, took initiative and have gone way above and beyond what was expected of me in this project. Her only involvement has been 2 meetings where I gave her an update on what I had been working on. She seemed to think I was doing a good job (she didn’t thank me, but she also didn’t have much criticism).
Today I overheard her telling her boss that “we” worked on it and that “we” sought out information and she minimized my contribution by saying that I “just did that part”. She passed off my ideas and opinions about the project (which I had just shared with her that morning) as her own (as in, “I think that we should…”).
I’m sure you’ve encountered this credit-stealing boss yourself, so how did you deal with it? By “deal with it”, I think I mean a way to let my manager know that I’m onto her (in hopes that she’ll stop) and let my manager’s boss know that I’m actually the one doing all the work.
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