are you a credit grabber?

You make it sound as if this does not exist or only at teh workplace. But this is happening all around you. Starting with your family and friends and neighbours. They all take credit of something they did not sweat for. They all push you to be better or different.. this is what society does and what most people do accept. Why? Because they are way to feared to live alone, to be alone, to stand for what they want.

I had a boss just like that. He gives out orders to his subordinates and when the work gets praised, he just smiles and don't even give the real employee the credit. I know you don't get any raise or something for that, but it's still important for us, the employees to get the credit because it boosts our motivation to wake up early in the morning to go to work.

i never did that. i always give credit where credit is due. but i have worked with people like that back before i quit working. very unfair and i probably should have spoken up.

Oh yeah, we will always have people like that in the workplace. Actually, they're everywhere. But because there is some inner competition at work, it is more rampant and visible there. I had some team mates before who really likes to take all the credit for themselves. Since I don't want to sound like them by stepping forward and claiming it (even though it is indeed mine), I would have a serious talk with the manager and state that I am the one who did that in a discreet way. Like somewhere between the line of, "I am glad that you find the outcome very satisfactory. If you still have any more project of the same nature, please feel free to delegate the same to me, since I find doing the so and so using this and that on something very challenging and educational." hat way, hopefully, he gets the idea that I am the one who is really the author of that work, and not somebody else's. When he wouldn't believe it, then the next time something like that comes up again, I would point to my team mate who claimed all the credits since he claims it is his own hard work that did all that. And I will never offer my assistance. Just so I will not "ruin his chances".

I don't like being around people like this, who take credit for something they didn't do, this is what you call stealing, they steal something things wasn't they own, they steal your ideas and call it their own, and they never help in doing anything, but take what isn't theirs.