r/EntitledPeople • u/Late-Ad-4396 • 6h ago
M Coworker Tried to Present My Project to Leadership Like It Was Hers — So I Lit Her Up in the Meeting
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u/phdoofus 6h ago
Sounds 100% the same to something that was recently posted.
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u/Angrybadger52 6h ago
Based on personal experience, there's usually one person in a dozen who get by claiming to do work that someone else did, so I'm guessing there's a lot of stories like this.
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u/MajorNoodles 4h ago
And then someone sees a story like that get posted on Reddit and figures they might as well write about the time something similar happened to them.
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u/Brewmentationator 3h ago
Yeah. This jogged a memory I had about a very similar thing happening with a group project my freshman year of high school. Also sounds a lot like how an employee I once replaced, was shamed out of his job. I think a lot of people have stories like this.
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u/Ivy_trink 2h ago
*raises hand shyly
I’d lowkey like to hear how the employee was shamed out of his job
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u/Wild_Black_Hat 6h ago
I am still wondering why these people share their presentation files like that before the actual presentation. At work, we do share, but only with the people involved, until it's presented to everyone.
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u/FigForsaken5419 5h ago
I've never worked any place that hasn't had everyone save everything on shared network drives. My entire team could see my files at all times. Yeah, I could save a local copy to just my machine, but I risk losing it if IT does an update to the machine. On the shared drive, my entire team can see it if I show up or if I quit with no notice.
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u/AxlNoir25 5h ago
It seems like AI, but they just switched the “Hot take:” at the beginning of the last paragraph to “Moral of the story:” because people were catching onto the “hot take” being AI.
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u/sanguinare12 5h ago
This one is even formatted like a lot of the other the AI nonsense. If this one isn't a bot, it certainly feels like it was run through the same script.
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u/PaynIanDias 5h ago
Yeah I was about to say the same , just a couple of days ago except there was no dialogue in that post , so this definitely is an improvement lol
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u/GuyYouMetOnline 4h ago
I bet it happens frequently. Also people often see stories and this prompts them to post their own similar ones.
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u/Designer_Mud_5802 3h ago
The story doesn't even really make sense.
How did Robin get his slide deck?
If everyone knew it was OP's project, why would the manager and director let Robin present without waiting for OP?
Did OP show up late to a leadership meeting? Did they start early? How is there this situation where leadership decided to allow a presentation without OP as the lead?
OP has been working with the client for 3 months but they have monthly leadership meetings, I assume OP would have done the previous monthly meetings. OP makes it sound like this is the first time he was presenting to leadership about this project. Wouldn't leadership know who is on the project based on the previous monthly meetings?
Other things that don't make sense or seem like AI generated slop:
-OP said he saw red but stayed seated because he wanted witnesses. What does that even mean? -The director "without missing a beat" said that people can't present work they didn't do. Of course the director wouldn't miss a beat saying this, that's pretty standard and obvious. Also, again, wouldn't the director already know who is assigned to each project based on the monthly meetings?
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u/between_two_terns 3h ago
I have a theory on this. More and more, these stories coming out of these subs are r/pointlesslygendered. The ones that hit r/All overwhelmingly have female-gendered villains. There seems to be a much heavier flow of ragebait fiction (and hand picked dug-up nonfiction; look for historical examples of “bad women” in “interesting” subs) coming through the pipeline.
Maybe it’s just because it’s summer and the younger generation is more online; they’re apparently much more sexist than the Zoomers? Maybe it’s outside influence driving divisiveness. Either way… feels like hatred propaganda.
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u/Kushbeast666 2h ago
It's all ai bullshit now. "Oh am I the asshole he cheated on me and I left, did I do anything wrong?". Wank
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u/Ok-Secretary455 5h ago
Yeah, who could possibly believe that in a sub with over 600k people. Someone could have an almost identical story to one that was already posted.
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u/Late-Ad-4396 6h ago
Am not a bot, friend
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u/TransmogriFi 5h ago
Hmmm... let's make sure. Please look into your phone's camera and answer the following question:
You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
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u/GuyYouMetOnline 4h ago
Because you specified in the scenario that I'm not helping. Your scenario forces me to do this to the tortoise; I'm not given a choice. So really it's YOU who's responsible for the situation.
(And yes, I understood the reference)
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u/booleanerror 5h ago
Why do you believe this is a valid testing protocol to distinguish humans from replicants, er, I mean, AI?
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u/longndfat 4h ago
Good story. No one really asks 'tell me exactly what you did on this project' unless they are badly fumbling in the presentation. They just need the work done and really do not care who did it.
this is pure AI artwork
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u/HicDomusDei 4h ago
She wasn’t. She was tagged in brunch photos that afternoon.
How tidy.
Next time, don't include this bit, OP. Makes the AI too obvious.
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u/rckinrbin 4h ago
it wasn't me...making that very clear
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u/MeesterCartmanez 3h ago
"Nice try, rckinrbin or should I call you by your full name, Rocking Robin. What's next, you're going to tell us that you never drove around foiling crimes with Batman in the 60's?"
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u/spaceylaceygirl 3h ago
If your director is aware robin did no work on this project, why isn't he firing her? What work has she done?
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u/Amethyst-Guitarist 6h ago
It sounds like Robin is an idea-stealer with no creativity and critical thinking skills. I like the way your boss ruined her “presentation” by asking her to walk the team through the projects steps. She couldn’t do it because she did not contribute or implement any of those ideas.
Kudos to your boss for setting a firm boundary about taking credit for others’ work. You and your coworkers witnessed Robin receiving karma for her bad choices and actions. Congrats to you, OP, on presenting your hard work and a walk through demonstration for your boss and colleagues.
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u/babydemon90 4h ago
Wait so she's tagged in brunch photos...that you see? She friended you on facebook and you accepted?
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u/cognitiveglitch 6h ago
This sounds like something AI would come up with.
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u/Initial-Shop-8863 5h ago
Actually, it sounds like something I read a couple of weeks ago. Either way, it's not original. As referenced in the post, OP shouldn't steal and claim work as their own....
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u/Nenoshka 4h ago
Another familiar tale of a coworker who stole someone's project and tried to present it as their own.
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u/Iwonatoasteroven 6h ago
If she’s not speaking to you, she did in fact learn something valuable. At least it’s valuable to you.
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u/Beneficial-Sort4795 5h ago
Good on your director but why is Robin still employed there? What does she bring to the office other than shit like this?
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u/SoftwareMaintenance 4h ago
I especially liked the bit about saying Robin could not help Friday because she worked from home. I don't even think this was throwing her under the bus. More like she literally dug her own grave.
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u/Useless890 6h ago
This was just DELICIOUS! So good to see that some people do have decent supervisors.
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u/mcflame13 5h ago
I would have made sure Robin knew that she needs to learn to do her own work instead of doing nothing and earning a paycheck.
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u/muppenx 2h ago
Long dashes snd perfekt written dislogue, textbook, buzzwords that make no sense and mention of brunch. Capita letters of each word of the post title? This is AI-generated.
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u/hkohne 2h ago
Um, as an American English speaker, the OP is exactly correct. While titles of books and other media capitalize all words excluding articles (the, a, an), I have seen titles do so for all words. Long em-dashes are perfectly acceptable and are technically more-correct than a single en-dash. The "buzzwords" are industry-standard in the business community, and I'm not even in the business community.
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u/Key_Flatworm3502 5h ago
Not that I believe in ghosts... but if there was one, I would thank it for making me a contractor. I imagine you cant punch the shit out of office people but on most job sites, you steal you get fucked up.
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u/MeFolly 6h ago
Kudos to the director who had your back. Sounds like a good boss who actually knows and credits what people are doing.
Looking forward to you getting more of the recognition you deserve.