So over the past 3 months, I’ve been OT-ing like crazy, eating cai fan at my desk every night, and sacrificing my weekends to build this whole new automation workflow for our department. Everything from scratch ok, zero sleep, kopi O gao non-stop.
Fast forward to today: big monthly presentation with the Director. My manager—let’s call him “Mr. Wayang”—presents the entire deck. I was sitting at the side, expecting at least a small shoutout like “Special thanks to my team.”
Guess what? Zero. Zilch. Bo hwee.
Not only did he not credit me, he literally phrased the whole thing as if HE was the one who burned midnight oil to write the code and design the system! “So I decided to re-engineer our workflow…” “My strategy for this quarter was…” Wah, the way he talk, so proud, so confident, like he super hero standard. Director was nodding, super impressed, saying “Great initiative, very impressive work!”
I was sitting there, eyes wide, blood pressure spiking to the moon.
Then the best part come. karma strikes immediately. ⚡
Director asks a super technical follow-up question about the backend integration and data security. Mr. Wayang blur like sotong. Complete silence for 5 awkward seconds. Sweat starting to pour down his face.
He turns around, looks straight at me with a fake warm smile, and says in front of EVERYONE: “Ah, actually, let me get my junior to help explain the minor technical details to you. He assisted me on this project.”
ASSISTED?? Siao liao. Help explain your head ah! You don’t know how to answer because you didn’t do a single piece of work!
I was so tempted to say: “Oh boss, actually I don’t know how YOUR project works, maybe you can explain?”
But because I still need to pay my HDB mortgage, I behaved. I stepped up, answered all the Director’s questions smoothly, and broke down the technical architecture until the Director gave a “thumbs up” and told me directly, “Very sharp, good job.”
Mr. Wayang still had the cheek to smile and claim credit again after that, saying “Yeah, we make a good team.”
Bro, team where got like that one? You take all the credit, I do all the work, then when shit hits the fan you throw me under the bus to save your own skin?
Really cannot stand this kind of credit thief. Next time I do project, I putting my own name in watermark on EVERY single slide.
Anyone else got this kind of snake manager before? How you all deal with it? Give me some tips please, before I throw letter! 😭👇