Employee discovers coworker is taking credit for her work, she informs boss, only to be told off for not being a team player: ‘I don't understand corporate culture anymore’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Oct 10, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Imagine being a hardworking employee who truly puts in the work, only to find out that someone else in the office is claiming credit for your hard work. What would you do in this situation? Naturally, if you have proof that a coworker is taking credit for work they didn't do, the best thing to do is talk to your boss about it, and ask them to step in. However, this story might suggest that asking your boss for help might not be the right call.

The employee in this Reddit story turned to her management after she discovered a coworker was taking credit for projects she was in charge of. During a conversation with her boss's boss, she mentions this problem, only to be later yelled at by her boss for not being a 'team player'. Eventually, this might have made the employee wish she never even brought it up.

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    "You're not being a team player!"
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    My wife got in trouble at work for pointing out that someone else was claiming credit for her work
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    . They have a system that tracks all the open projects but when a project gets transferred from one person to another both peoples names appear on the project.
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    There was a guy claiming he couldn't take on any more work because he had 30 open projects. When they came to my wife with the project she said she had over
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    40 projects why can't the guy do it. She was told he already has a bunch of open projects. When my wife pulled the report she found he was claiming 16 projects that had been transferred to her.
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    Her bosses boss comes into her office to give her grief for not taking any of the new projects so my wife points out that the guy only had 14 projects. Then she shows the boss how to look up
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    the projects in the tracking system. A day later my wife's boss comes in and screams at her for making the guy look bad and saying my wife is not a team player
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    I just don't even understand corporate culture anymore.
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    livtop ⚫8h ago • Her boss is mad because he got in trouble for not properly managing. What an a hat.
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    • tc_cad 5h ago • Someone once took credit for my work and got 9k for it. I had proof and it still took 3 months before the company agreed with me and paid me for the work. I quit after getting paid.
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    AdAccomplished6870 5h ago • She made her boss look like he didn't know what was going on. Because he didn't know what was going on. She got yelled at because she embarrassed her boss to their boss.
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    SquatPraxis 5h ago • Document the screaming and keep a personal record. Abusive and unprofessional. No one is going to d immediately without intervention? No need to scream.
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    PsychedelicRick • 9h ago • Yells at you that you made him look bad?....nah he did that by being bad at his job. I would have fired that back at them.
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    JustSomeOldFr⚫5h ago Your wife is a better person than I am. I don't let anyone scream at me. I'd have been fired ten seconds after her boss opened his mouth
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    cdancidhe 8h ago Hope she can find another job or at the very least give minimal effort to whatever project gets assigned.
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    passthepaintchips • 5h ago. Actually I think you understand it quite well now. Greasy wheels get fired. Women are supposed to do more work than men and not complain. And never make your boss look bad.
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    JU haha7125 5h ago Thats when you walk out and tell them that now he does ALL projects
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    katherinesilens • 4h ago • Her boss's boss might be very interested that the latter outburst occurred. But help her look around for some workplace that values her and isn't bats'__:.
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    WorldlinessProud • 4h ago • Team player. What it really means is: "You do your work, and theirs too."
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    Much Adagio_6223 4h ago • Document everything. Your wife can bring this above him or to HR. He isn't managing his team properly or doesn't know how and is too scared to admit he lacks skills.
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    IShouldbeNoirPl 4h ago • My guess is that she broke system. Favorites of her boss were getting all the praise "team players" were doing all the work
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