How ๐ก๐ข๐ง to handle someone taking credit for your work
Being ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐น๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ and telling yourself โitโs not worth the fussโ is exactly how someone else ends up looking like the one who did the work.
Most people react by shrinking back. They stay quiet in meetings, ๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ โ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐โ whose work it really was, and treat a jealous colleagueโs behaviour as normal teamwork instead of a power play.
But when a coworker
ยท ๐๐๐๐ you out of emails,
ยท ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ you from key discussions, and then
ยท ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ the result as their idea,
thatโs not confusion. Itโs a power play โ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ณ๐ โ designed to divert recognition away from you so they rise faster.
Instead of stewing in silence,
start naming your contributions in calm, factual ways:
โOn the piece Iโve been leadingโฆโ
โIn the draft I put togetherโฆโ
then share your work directly with stakeholders.
Thatโs how you block jealousyโfuelled power plays and make office politics work for your visibility, not against it.