Write everything down. *Credit-taking boss* If you have a good idea, create a proposal before you tell anyone the entire idea. Hold your cards close to your v

Write everything down. *Credit-taking boss* If you have a good idea, create a proposal before you tell anyone the entire idea. Hold your cards close to your vest. Don't just tell your boss and let him or her take the credit - bosses taking-credit shit. You put your name and the creation date on it. Lots of employees just like to talk about things and get the ideas flowing. With a credit-grabbing boss, you can't do this. Even with a boss that gives credit, it's still a good idea to follow the same exact procedure. Things can always get fucked up, like if your great boss get's replaced 1 month in and a new credit-taking boss takes his or her place and claims the idea as his or her own. You do NOT want others taking credit for your great ideas, no matter what. In order to make it seem like you're NOT going behind his or her back, which is important especially with a credit-taking boss, make sure you tell your boss that you are running a few different thoughts on what some issues in your process and you want to have a quick conversation with other people. Make sure they are in other groups in the company that don't report to your boss. If your boss asks you what it is, say you are looking at a number of different thins and ideas. Be vague. If the boss insists what exactly it is, make sure you create a fake or dummy idea and tell the boss that one, and you have a few other vague ideas that haven't really taken form. This way, again, you show you're not going around their back, which control freaks and credit-takers hate. Then you go around and talk to 5 or 8 or 10 people but be vague as you can but ask some specifics that don't give your idea away. All this is just a show. You already know what you want to do. It's all a show. It's smoke and mirrors to throw off others off the scent and you can get credit without getting fucked by your boss or others. When all this preliminary bullshit show is done, then you create a proposal/report, and you put your name and the date on it and you distribute it to all the others who "helped" you, and to your boss. This way, your name and the date are definitively on the proposal and a lot of other people who "helped" and also their bosses will know about it, and that you did it, so the credit-taker can't take all the credit. He or she must at least share credit. You write the report in a way so they can't take credit, too. So in the executive summary on the first page, you write something along the lines of: "I noticed xyz and pdq and wondered if there was a solution. I started putting together some frameworks as shown in Appedix A (include dates, like 2/1/23). On Wednesday 2/15/23 after some thought, I asked my boss, Fred Asshole, if I could gather cross-departmental information from Jack Smack, Polly Golly, Fred Head, Bill Mill, and Percy Mercy. I appreciate Jack, Polly, Fred, Bill, and Percy's contribution." "What I thought and discovered was: xyz pdq abc etc" and then write the whole proposal as normal. But at the very first page, the very first paragraph, you want to say how the project came about and that you were the source. Don't bury this on the 4th or 8th page. First paragraph.