My Director just took my deck (which I spent the last 3 weeks on), did very VERY minor changes.. and pasted her name on the intro page. There was no name initially, because I was the only person working on this. So now it was just her name, NO MENTION OF ME! And she went ahead and presented to our VP, after telling me that she's gonna do that.

I am SO FRUSTRATED! If you're here and reading this, may you get a crying baby next to you on every flight for the next year!

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Wow that’s awful. When you present, I’d definitely call it out in a roundabout way to the vp eg “Director gave you a sneak peek of my presentation, but excited to share with you my fully revised version. “

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This is par for the course in larger organizations (not saying it is fair). The next time your Director has a similar ask of you, ask for more context as to if this deck is coming from you or them. I'm fine with putting in hard work and having my Director put their name on it in front of a VP IF they tell me first and if I have a positive, healthy working relationship with them. Otherwise this is super unethical and disrespectful..

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That's a sign of bad management. A manager will help you grow and will only take some of the credit. Make sure you speak out. It is nothing to be nervous about. Sometimes you have to be straightforward with people to get what you want.

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Horrible. I would make sure that if the deck comes up in conversation with the VP or other upper management, you chime in.

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That sounds so remarkably frustrating...I'd be heated too. How do you feel about approaching her on the topic? Its important that your work is seen and associated with you, the author. Being taken advantage of totally stinks, but it's more crucial that you get some form of clarity.

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What??? That's so unfair! I'd be fuming if I were you! Can you take tomorrow off so you can calm down a bit and regroup? I'd definitely confront her on this, but I would advise against doing so until you've had sufficient time to let off some of that (justifiable) steam. Otherwise, it probably won't end well. Let her know how hard you worked on that and how it made you feel when she gave you no credit for your contributions. If she's unapologetic, I'd start looking for another job, stat.

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I have experienced this as well. You are right to be upset about this. It’s been my observation when your senior does something like this, that means you have outgrown your role and they have not.

You should definitely raise this with her and my suggestion would be to do it via and email, keep it diplomatic and clear about how you felt. Followed by a meeting. I left my previous job because of politics like this. It’s unfortunate but it happens.

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This is insane, I'm so so sorry!! I would raise it as well, more in a casual way rather than trying to be accusatory (otherwise they'll go into defense mode). But it shows that you're not gonna let it slide when they do stuff like that, so less likely to do it in the future.

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Thank you so much for the supportive comments! It's good to know that I'm not being petty about this.
To add more context here, I kinda don't report to her. I'm yet to present this deck to my own leadership, I was speaking with her regarding my ongoing work and she asked for it. I gave her a copy over Slack, it's not even the final version , I have until next week to finalize it.

I'll be sure to point out what happened to the leadership(that VP is gonna be there, I hope) and emphasize even more how "I" alone have worked on this one.
But I don't think I can do anything more as I'm still on probation. Don't want to search for a new job yet again because of this. And if that VP decides to skip this meeting because he already knows the content, I can't do anything.

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