30-year-old man takes credit for work of 25-year-old female colleague in client meeting, flips out when she calls him out on it: 'Everyone knew it was mine'

Many people underestimate just how frustrating it is to not get the credit that you deserve until it happens to them. Unfortunately, it is a common phenomenon in the workplace, and a lot of employees end up experiencing it at one point or another. There are just too many individuals who enjoy reaping the rewards of hard work without actually doing it, and they find it easy to pick out victims whose effort they will try to pass off as their own.

It is a difficult situation to address, as more often than not, these kinds of coworkers have strategies in place to make it difficult to call them out in a way that is going to be successful. Awkward as it can be, sometimes public confrontation feels like the only way. Just because it isn't unusual for people to pass off the work of others as their own doesn't mean that it should be accepted.

This is how one woman felt when she reached the end of her patience with an older, male coworker taking credit for the work of others. When he tried to act like he had been an instrumental part of a project she had done most of the work on in a client meeting, she couldn't help but call him out on it.
Her colleague was not happy and claimed that if she had an issue, she should have discussed it privately. She wanted to know if she had gone too far.
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AITA for calling out my coworker during a client meeting for taking credit for MY work (again)?

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Outsiders understood her point of view, although some thought she should have approached things differently.

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