Some bosses have a habit of taking credit for projects they didn’t actually do.

For instance, this employee solved a costly internal problem.

But his manager presented the entire project as his own work.

Weeks later, the company VP found out the truth.

Read the full story below and see what happened.

my boss stole my work and i let him get roasted for it

This happened a few months ago.

I work in product for a mid-sized tech company, nothing fancy.

I was leading a small internal project that basically fixed a mess that had been costing us money every month.

I spent weeks working late, cleaning up data, building reports, the whole deal.

This employee handed his report to his manager who took all the credit.

The day before the all-hands, my manager (let’s call him Steve) suddenly asked me to “send over a quick summary” of what I did.

I thought he was just reviewing it. It turns out he straight up presented my entire deck at the meeting.

He used the same slides and the same words and didn’t even change the file name.

The kicker? He said, “My team helped a bit.”

Bro? Helped a bit? I am the team. I didn’t say anything right then.

The VP eventually learned that he was the one who built the system.

A few weeks later, our VP asked me for some follow-up numbers.

Steve was on vacation, so I sent her the updated dashboard and casually mentioned:

“Oh yeah, here’s the model I built from that analysis I shared earlier.”

She said, “Wait, you built that?”

Long story short, the VP wasn’t thrilled.

Steve didn’t get any credit on the next review cycle.

Next review cycle, guess who didn’t get credit for “strategic contributions”?

Not me. Not this time.

What I’ve learned is that you should document everything.

Keep receipts.

And let management (like Steve) hang themselves with their own PowerPoint.

Let’s check out the comments of other people on this story.

This user shares what they do.

This one has a boss who did the same thing.

Here’s an idea!

Classic Steve move, says this one.

And lastly, here’s a valid point.

Receipts speak louder than PowerPoint presentations.

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