[MMike]

I just got my first corporate hosing.

Since day one, I've been whining (as is my wont), about how a certain thing we do here is completely retarded and that the Boeing method is much better. Well lo and behold, my boss called a meeting today to inform us that he has had a GREAT idea and that he was going to pitch this idea to the higher ups. It bears a STRIKING resemblance to what I've been saying....and the idea appeared to strike him right after he saw it (sort of) in practice....on my drawing. That'll learn me I guess...... Keep my good ideas to myself, until I can share them with someone important.

 

[MMike]

please insert a Nelson Munce "ha ha"

 

[JRB]

God I wish that wolverine would work.

 

[Westy]

Document all whinings that could be considered productive in emails. If not to rub it in your boss's face when he does something like this, at least save it for review/raise time as proof that you are not just another leather vest wearing peckerwood.

 

[Ciaran]

I just got my first corporate hosing.

Get used to it. That's corporate life. Best you can do is to keep your vaseline handy.

 

[stinkyboy]

Get used to it. That's corporate life. Best you can do is to keep your vaseline handy.

BS! If you don't stand up for yourself, you don't deserve a reach around.

 

[schweino1]

i normally do this:

1.- pass all the ideas to my boss in a way that he understands arround 20% (geek speak and all)
2.- encourage him to present this idea as his in a meeting or such

3.- people start asking questions to him, he doesnt know the answers, he publicly asks me
4.- in the end everybody knows who's idea it was....

jejejeje

 

[schweino1]

and 5.- boss thanks me for picking up the slack and saving his sorry @ss in public

 

[Da Peach]

Document all whinings that could be considered productive in emails. If not to rub it in your boss's face when he does something like this, at least save it for review/raise time as proof that you are not just another leather vest wearing peckerwood.

Definitely.

I'd talk to him about it.:mumble:

 

[MMike]

The situation doesn't lend itself well to confrontation....

Looks like I'm wolverine shopping again.... (I could never part with the ones people keep sending me).....

 

[JRB]

I think that the best answer is to leg hump him in a staff meeting. Let them know, who's whose bitch.

 

[DRB]

Oddly enough MMike's boss looks strikingly like his trashman, who looks alot like his kids.....

 

[dan-o]

If he makes a point of stealing your ideas then feed him bad ideas. Just think of the cost savings if the number and quality of bolts holding on the rotors was reduced!

 

[stinkyboy]

toyoya.com

They encourage their employees to make suggestions and to make things better, that's why they kick Detroits ass.

Worst American catch phrase ever: "Don't work too hard"

 

[kidwoo]

Have you tried weeping?

Publicly I mean?

 

[MMike]

Have you tried weeping?

Publicly I mean?

Well I do that anyway....so it might not make a difference

 

[SilentJ]

Worst American catch phrase ever: "Don't work too hard"

I'd call that a "life plan" rather than a catch phrase for the average 'merican.

 

[kidwoo]

I'd call that a "life plan" rather than a catch phrase for the average 'merican.

Works for me!!