Today, my co-worker received a $1,000 bonus for a project that I do all the work on. My direct supervisor thought that I was an assistant. I send him an e-mail copy of the project every week, and have done so for the past six months. I was later reprimanded for not congratulating my co-worker. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I received an email from my boss, with congratulations, announcing my promotion. I worked hard last year, so I was excited to hear this and replied with gratitude. He texted me and apologized for misunderstanding as this email was sent by mistake, and it was my coworker who actually got promoted. FML
Today, I received a company-wide email from my boss, praising a coworker's extra effort at improving our line of business. The coworker's efforts were a direct copy-and-paste of a plan I put together three months ago. No one cared when I gave the presentation. FML
Today, I learned that the co-worker who was out sick for months, whom I covered down for, received a much larger cash award than I did. This is despite me working there longer, taking on additional details, and receiving a glowing annual review. FML
Today, my coworker got a raise by making our boss give me a pay cut for doing his job while he was slacking off. As we were heading home for the day, he found $100. FML
Today, my boss reprimanded me for a huge screw-up that he was responsible for. FML
Today, I found out that a co-worker of mine that I had originally hired, trained, and mentored to work in my department for the past 4 years had just got the promotion that I had applied for. He is now my boss. FML
Today, I discovered that as thanks for my successful efforts to increase my company's monthly revenue, my dumbass of a boss has been awarded a pay bonus. He's wasted no time telling everyone about the sports car he's planning to buy with it. FML
Today, everyone at the office was finally presented with the bonuses our boss had promised to pay us by the end of last year. Turns out he was never authorized to promise any such thing, so he ended up just giving us signed "thank you" letters instead. FML
Today, my boss scolded me for being too friendly to our customers and told me to back off and let them do their thing. Less than an hour after doing as he said, he scolded me again, this time for slacking off and not asking them if they needed help finding stuff. There goes my bonus. FML
Today, I finished a huge project for work. It took 3+ days and I was very proud of it. Except when I submitted it to my boss, he said that he'd already asked another person to do it. He used that person's project, not mine. FML
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Rae Miller 10
Time to go see HR and find a new job.
LostSoul 20
If you let people at work walk all over you now, they always will. Stand up for yourself. If the job does not appreciate you, leave. Unless you are the caregiver for someone else, no reason to stay.
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Comments (6)
Amy78_fml 11
Maybe they will do the right thing and split it with you.
Shabnam Moghal 14
Why would he get half the pay when he did all the work? Splitting the money is like getting a gift of your own money, and not all of it. It's like going begging to someone for your own money...!
Rae Miller 10
Time to go see HR and find a new job.
RichardPencil 32
If you did the work, then your co-worker was obviously managing you -- guiding your efforts with their synergistic vision. Only management gets bonuses like that. Worker bees just need to be happy with their wages and shut their cakeholes.
LostSoul 20
If you let people at work walk all over you now, they always will. Stand up for yourself. If the job does not appreciate you, leave. Unless you are the caregiver for someone else, no reason to stay.
DanielleinDC 34
Is there anyone above your direct supervisor to whom you can send proof of your work on the project? Would it do any good? Is looking for another job an option?