So unmotivated to work.
You guys know how I’ve busted my ass on this project at work, right? It’s been the most exciting project and I’m more proud of this project than anything I’ve ever done in my career.
Yet I’ve been regularly pissed off about the fact that Boss keeps hepeating the same ideas that I have expressed and claiming them as his own. I was so mad about an email I got last night that I wrote this in a secret group on FB, and I want to share it here just because I’m sitting at my desk and fuming:
Work stuff: Hepeating. When your ideas are ignored or pooh-poohed in meetings or other settings - yet when a man says exactly the same thing, the idea is applauded and deemed brilliant.
This is happening to me, but on an even grander scale.
I have spent the last 4-5 months of my life building something huge for my company. It’s been the most exciting project of my career. I’ve taken it from a seed of an idea and grown it into a fully blooming sapling and I’m extremely proud of what I’ve accomplished so far. There are a few more steps needed to bring this project to complete success and a fully grown…tree, to stick with the analogy.
The whole time I’ve worked on this project my boss, a man, has taken every a-ha moment of mine and claimed it as either his idea or his underling sidekick (my counterpart of sorts, both male, whom my boss is grooming). At a huge trade show, in my proudest moment, my boss credited my counterpart first and then me, for all the brilliant work in creating this big thing.
Yesterday, the biggest slap in the face was an email I got from my boss telling me that my counterpart is going to need my help and assistance in bringing HIS (my counterpart’s)project to fruition.
HIS project!!! I am now simply the “support”!
I wrote an email back saying of course, but noted that I had spearheaded and built this project from the start.
It’s clear my boss is uncomfortable with women. He’s taken the whole #metoo movement to a new level as every time I talk to him he gets uncomfortable and says he has to be careful with anything he says to me and then nervously laughs.
But to credit my whole project to his male staff (who is happy to take credit for this, by the way) is beyond infuriating.
How to handle? What to do next? Anyone been in this situation?
And the comments are starting to roll in.
Someone suggested I document this project from the start and have a running list of all of my ideas, actions and milestones and to start referring to the project as mine. I am absolutely going to do that from here on out. I’ve had it with this bullshit of killing myself for something that is just going to get taken away from me anyway.
I’m going to document if for nothing else but my portfolio and to get a new gig.
Anyway. Hi. It’s Friday and I couldn’t be more happy about that.
The weather this weekend is supposed to be extra fine and I’m thrilled.
We have brunch club tomorrow and I’m getting a fresh new haircut and then on Sunday I’m going to a meet & greet for a new dog-friendly organization I’ve joined. It’s going to be a great weekend!
So there’s that.
I think I need to go for a walk.
xox,
GS
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