When your manager takes all your credit.

I do not have much luck in terms of working in good companies, see i change job so often also you know lar. this current one consider quite ok already, as compared to the previous ones. Although i don't have much luck with the company, i always got little bit of luck with the manager. All my managers are quite nice, nice in terms of they willing to teach you things, they don't simply shout at ppl, and most importantly they don't take all your credits and treat it as if they are the ones doing it.

My friend told me he don't have such luck. Let's refer him as A. A is an IT graduate, after a few years in IT, he decided to switch to some other fields to try out his luck. He joined the company 2 years ago and was put under this manager, Ms. C. At first he did not know anything about her, he just felt strange that everything he did, Ms.C requested him to send to her first. Her reason was she's going to go through the document and compile it. Who knows, during meeting, Ms.C presented the compiled document to everyone and tells everyone that she's the one working on it, where the real fact is, 80% of the document is being done from my friend, A.

He was very unhappy about this, but he just changed job and switched to a different field, so there's not much to do about it except to be patient and hope he can learn things fast and then changed job.

So one day, there comes this opportunity, someone in the other department left, and he was chose to replace that someone. He was so happy because he no longer under Ms.C. But it only took him a while to know that this new department will also be under Ms.C. There he goes, feeling depressed and unmotivated, and Ms.C again, always using this 'I'll compile everything, just send everything to me' excuse and takes all his credit!!

I told him there's only two things that can be done:

1. Keep quiet, continue let her takes all the credits, find job and cabut. (nobody will be able to see your performance if this is still happening)
2. Talk to someone that is in a higher position than Ms.C. This is a bit risky, it's either that person will help him or he's in a more difficult situation, u know la, when your manager knows you backstabbed him.. you think you can still sit safely in office meh?

so finally after he 'yan mou hor yan', he went and talk to the highest level manager!! and who wins the battle? HE WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!

for those out there, if you are facing the same problem, i guess you really should find a way to resolve it, else you will not get promoted in that company, cos all the credits will always go to your manager!! think about it!!