“She Marched Straight Into The CEO’s Office”: Woman Presents Coworker’s Work As Her Own, Gets Exposed Right In Front Of The CEO

One VP asked me to do a bit of research on an item, so I did it, sent out the slides and thought nothing of it. Then I get a call from the CEO, long story short, my findings became a major corporate initiative and would probably replace another as my research was concrete and the other department was more abstract and confusing. So this manager in the other department starts going around every office stating they were taking over my project (oh and she was the "pretty one"). They all knew she did this without permission, particularly when the CEO demanded I be the one to stay on this. She got chastised and a year later transferred to a new department....which was eliminated six months later.

I worked with a guy who constantly did that. I had an idea for a revised inventory control system and since he was the warehouse manager I emailed him the idea. About a week later we had a staff meeting and I just knew he was going to claim my idea. So I was prepared - I printed off a copy of the email I sent him, which was obviously dated & included his response to me, telling me what a great idea it was. Sure enough, he gets up and starts explaining "his" new idea. (I want to point out I worked with a group of absolute p*ssies, so he got away with this sh*t all the time). I let him think it was just another steal on his part. When he was done with his "presentation" I calmly got up, walked over to the company president and handed him the email. Everyone was like, what's going on. So Pres starts asking some really pointed questions about this new system, which of course he can't really answer. Then he turns to me and says, "Michelle, since this was actually YOUR idea

I was working for the nation's largest inbound telemarketing company and during a 2 month period I discovered we were getting a lot of wrong numbers for a large outdoorsman's catalog. The problem was their 800 number which `was spelled out in the ads ended with O (6). We had a telephone number in our banks that was the exact same number but instead of ending with 6 it ended with 0 (zero). People were dialing 0 for the last digit instead of 6 for the O. I submitted a suggestion to sales that we should have someone call the catalog company and sell them on our service, which involved taking info to send a catalog to, since people were mistakenly dialing us instead of the right number (1-800-XXXXXX0 vs 1-800-XXXXXXO). Well, long story short, sales contacted the sporting goods company and sold them on our service. About a month later I heard one of the salesmen bragging how he had gotten a $250 bonus for that great idea involving the sporting goods company!

I like to see people get served Karma, but damn, your approach was nasty and hateful, taking personal shots, and insults brought you down below her level.