Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top

Re:Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top by ttr2021 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:18AM (#37144562)

Dude, I had a colleague, senior to me, do the opposite. I had an idea that I struggled internally to get off the ground for months and months. I pretty much did all the research, found the contacts, got the architecture direction, sought feedback and buy in from multiple stakeholders - including him. Practically I was ignored.

After about 6 months, he's presenting this identical idea to our team!

Guess what, it was approved by upper management!!

Except, the lack of details he had in his super high level stuff lacked any insights, so I called him out in the next meeting and basically said have you seen this document I've been socialising for the last 6 months!?

He said it was 'different'..

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Re:Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top by ttr2021 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:21AM (#37144588)

But didn't hesitate to go back and use all my notes, research and contacts to quickly backfill all his lack of details with my stuff!

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Re:Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top by catchnear4321 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @08:48AM (#37146253)

putting “your stuff” into an auditable system with login and timestamps will help a lot in such situations.

with some tools, you even get information on the top visitors to a given page. you know, like if someone needs to fill in their presentation at the last minute.

if someone uses your notes for the benefit of the company, this is fantastic! but you need to save your receipts. just in case you need them.

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Re:Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top by ttr2021 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:07AM (#37187200)

Agree with all of your points. I had everything documented in a business case format for management to consume with references to more technical topics, in a wiki.

So, anyway, I think things have sort of settled on this stuff a bit now.

I'm been recently made the tech lead on this initiative that I did all the research on and my manager have me kudos for the idea.

In fact we're pivoting on alot of other things at work because of it, with top level leadership support.

So pretty insane.. but anyway

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Re:Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top by thumbuddy on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:54AM (#37144818)

This is why stratagems like quiet quitting exist.

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