'How was your little tete-a-tete with our boss?': Coworker takes credit for employee's 15-page report, employee tells CEO

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Jan 14, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Incompetent nepo-babies are always an unwelcome presence in many offices. What happens when one of them tries to credit for someone else's hard work?

Well, as it turns out, this nepo-baby learned perhaps for the first time in her entire life that things will not always go her way. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/Aiku, who was distributing a 15-page report to her coworkers when the nepo-baby marched into the CEO's office and gave him her copy of the report claiming that she was its rightful author. Little did the nepo-baby know, OP knew exactly what she was doing and marched right into the office after her. Even the CEO, who was golfing buddies with the nepo-baby's Dad, could not believe what this entitled woman was trying to get away with in the workplace. 

Keep scrolling below to learn what happened next. For more content like this, here is a story about a teacher who stood up to their principal. 

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  • 01
    Co-worker tried to claim my 15-page report as her own work to the CEO, got outed in front of him. This was a young woman who only got her job (especially made for her) because her dad was golfing buddies with our CEO.
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    CO r/pettyrevenge Posted by u/Aiku Co-worker tried to claim my 15-page report as her own work to the CEO, got outed in front of him. This was a young woman who only got her job (especially made for her) because her dad was golfing buddies with our CEO.
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    She regularly blamed her team for her numerous mistakes, and took all the credit for their hard work. Let's call her B
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    I used to do trade shows and after the fall season would be back in the office and create a comprehensive report on the results of the shows, normally 15+ pages. The Veeps always wanted paper reports, not attachments, so I normally printed them out and distributed them personally to the staff.
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    I handed Bher copy as we passed in the corridor, then watched in sheer amazement as she marched straight into the CEO's office and said, I kid you not; "Here Boss, I just put this together for you". Stunning, the report was all about trade shows, and she wasn't even in the same department!
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    Cue the revenge, I marched in there right after her, and said "Oh, BI just realized that my report has some numerical errors, let me have it back and I'll get you a revised one", all the while staring at the CEO with a slightly raised eyebrow.
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    As I left, I heard the most wonderful words from the CEO: "Aiku, would you please close the door as you leave?"
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    ]came out about five minutes later looking like a ripe tomato. I couldn't resist asking "How was your little tete-a-tete with our Boss?"
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    Disorderly_Chaos My dad's coworker tried to steal his programming code and take credit. At the meeting concerning the allegations... my dad asked why this guys variables were named after people in our family. AKA Find Product [INT]$Riker = 9*9 [INT]$Picard = 10*10 5.4k Reply Share
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    ChainsawArmLaserBear . That's up, but I would hate working with your dad lol Variable names help understand the code 1.5k Reply Share
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    cabird78. And that, kids, is how you professionally take down a credit-stealing coworker. 2.5k Reply Share
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    Aiku OP. Thank you, it took a few years to polish this approach, but it has served me well over the years. 371 Reply Share
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    DhibeCakes55. She regularly blamed her team for her numerous mistakes, and took all the credit for their hard work. Let's call her I don't even need to read the rest to know this ..... is gonna be good... 2.1k Reply Share
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    deadeyeAZ I went to a meeting about some very detailed data I had gathered while working with a "team". This involved months of some very involved measurements over long periods of time being correlated to specific testing parameters. Lo and behold all of my work was presented with "we don't know who did this but this is great!" I stood up and said "Well I do, it was me" and looked at the "team lead" who had not given me any credit for it. My revenge was years later when he got walked out after
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    HitDog420 I came out about five minutes later looking like a ripe tomato" saaaa. 255 Reply Share
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    AcrobaticSource3. Alternatively, you could have asked her to summarize the report on the spot and watched her stammer. Then say, "oh, THIS report? I need to correct some numbers" 242 Reply Share
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    Middle_Data_9563 And this is why you don't hire your golfing buddy's daughter Nepotism is the enemy of efficiency 152 Reply Share
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    Icemasta. Also why, when someone asks for your power point, you send them a PDF of it, not the powerpoint itself. I've been had a couple times where I took time to make nice slides for projects and then I see it in someone else's presentation. 148 Reply Share
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    matt_mv. I sat in a cube next to a guy who was a "lead" in his group. I would hear him talking to the people who did the actual work in his group and then sit in meetings where he said "I did this" and "I did that" when I knew he hadn't done the work. Funny thing is I never had to say anything about it because everyone knew he was a liar, but since no one ever told him to his face he thought he was clever. 147 Reply Share
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    verminiusrex. Regaining control through such a simple and plausible way was pure genius. Well done. 121 Reply Share
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    Terrible-Paramedic35. Had a coworker who used to do that. So I began to put something unique in the footer. Shared a document with them and sure enough it comes out as hers during a meeting. Thats when I asked her what the notation in the footer was. It got really awkward when I pointed out that it just happened to be my initials and employee number.
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