You know, there have been so many posts here where folks have complained that their managers take their work and just represent it as their own.
I have always believed that its ok for managers to do that upto a certain extent. After all they are actually taking a lot of stress for the team and they do own the responsibility of whatever is covered in the team. So they should represent the consolidated work upward.
But even with that in mind, lately I feel that my manager has been just discussing things 1:1 with me, taking my ideas, taking all my brainstorming, creates some slides and shows as his own thoughts to next level managers. I put a lot of effort to simplify all of that into simple consumable understanding and talk about it to my manager in 1:1. I spent considerable amount of time doing that, which then results in 3 min conversation in which I relay the idea or understanding to the other person.
It just sucks that there is not even an ounce of credit he gives me when he is presenting those ideas. And at the end of the quarter in insights session asks me what has been my deliverable. The role I am in is really a leadership role to bring things together and find gaps and pull a successful product together. So a deliverable now always is going to be cut and dry like I wrote this app or library.
Its sort of sad to see this kind of behavior at senior level. Just atrocious. I dont even feel like I want to talk to my manager 1:1 anymore. I know that he would just take my idea, create his slide and show as his own idea. I would be ok with if he acknowledged my work publicly. I dont care if someone reuses my work and builds on it. But give some credit to others who contributed to your thought process. But he just takes my ideas and presents it to his managers and leaves me just hanging on these calls.
I am getting a bit sick of this. So if you are working at Intel and if you are reading this, please give credit to others contributions. Not matter how big or small these are. Give credit to what people do. If you dont do that, you end up creating walls and folks dont feel confident to share their work with others. No one wants that.