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Normal. This is what managers do. My manager doesn't know the first thing about what we do, and always needs info or a "report" before she goes into a meeting. Of course she makes a fool of herself, but all the other managers are doing the exact same thing, so they are a little klub. At this point she is a liability. We seriously would do better without that whole level of useless meeting fodder/email forwarders. In the future, play dumb. always go slow, pretend you know NOTHING. It is a survival tactic. When that becomes you mantra, your job will become so much easier. If you do it to the point where you are useless, you might be promoted into management!
Just one point. Perhaps I assume that is inappropriate because I have quite a history with her. I've been working for her for six years, and until now she'd do anything just to avoid getting me in touch with higher management. One time she had to go back and forth several times to the executive's office just to convey to me his comments on a new report that I was working on... Of course, it was one of the reports I never heard about after they were done...
We're on good terms, otherwise, though
I eventually dealt with this situation by directly and, uh, secretly working for the chief executive on some higher level projects, and that paid off REALLY well. I'll share the full story if I get promoted soon
Your real motive was pretty obvious. Just so you know, that game can backfire real quick. Don't forget who butters your bread.
One time,that was my job. I wrote stuff that other people took credit for. That's all I did all day. They paid me a lot of money, so I really didn't care.
If you knew this up front from first being hired, then OK I guess, but if your manager started doing this later out of the blue, seems fishy to me & I'd definitely want to get to the bottom of it.
If you are already looking for another job, down at the bottom of the page you create, you can write, "Created by Joe Schultz, Purchasing Department" or whatever tag line you like. Then change the color of the text of that line to white. It is there, but unseen until somebody goes to "plain text" and changes the text color of the whole document. Presto! You get credit for creating the document and you bring down the wrath of your boss upon you.
The contents of an E-mail you composed at work are a "work made for hire" and your employer owns this work product. They can do whatever they want with it.
Still, if I were the manager I would have shot you a quick E-mail saying "I incorporated some of the wording from your E-mail in thus-and-such. Thanks for your help with it." That's not necessary but it helps maintain good relations around the office.
Totally appropriate. She is your manager and is responsible for the work. However, you might want to let her know how it affects your morale to not be referenced. But since it was not personal, you might not want to make a big deal about it.
As a manager, her bosses are probably aware that her specialty is managing, and that she was not the originator of the info she supplied to them. If you keep up the good work, and provide good results like this REPEATEDLY, your work will be noticed, never fear.
Good point, the other similar situation was a couple of months ago, where she forwarded a solution that I'd suggested for an error that I'd made. The solution required high level approval. Even in that case, it didn't feel right that she totally cut and pasted my email without any reference to me, but I took that with good intention...
It almost seems like you feel some type of 'copyright' on what you are doing for your employer. Make no mistake, what you do during work is owned by the company and anyone above you on the chain of command has the right to use it in any way they see fit.
every work culture is different but it could be widely known that your managers work comes from her department (and not specifically from her).
at my job managers are too busy filing tps reports to do any real work but they get credit when the department does a good job.
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