> "Oh, well, you always take care of it." That could have been a nice chance to say "Oh cool, I implicitly got this new responsibility? Let me solve this, get

> "Oh, well, you always take care of it." That could have been a nice chance to say "Oh cool, I implicitly got this new responsibility? Let me solve this, get to the bottom of it, own the solution, present to the management. Maybe ask for a raise later?". Part of the the road to success is taking situations like that and turning them into your favor. > He took what I had set up as a little pseudo-managerial experiment to see just how lazy these people were and turned it against me. Meanwhile, nothing happened to the actual people who were lazy! Now come to think on it, I wonder if she was the experimental subject after all. Notice how people expected her to handle it. I wonder if somehow the manager turned "the experiment" around into another experiment "I wonder how much time she'll waste running the experiment instead of fixing the problem?".