By Anonymous - 11/04/2014 23:16 - United States - San Francisco

Today, after months of busting our asses and working round the clock on our latest project, I and the whole office just got bad news: when our boss promised extremely generous bonuses for doing all this, he was point-blank lying, and intended to take credit for our work all along. FML
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jrshap12 10

Wow, he shouldn't be allowed to operate a business like that.

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ced443_fml 9

Okay that's not alright. You and your coworkers have the right to dispute his work and prove that he is a stealing bastard

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KiaKarma 11

I don't want to get thumbed down for my ignorance on the subject, but is that even legal? I mean, it's not published or whatever but isn't there copyright laws against that? This comment might be extremely stupid, forgive me. I'm just curious.

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sdroze1389 31

copyright protects individual intellectual property. since OP was doing this for work, anything as a result of their work is the property of the company. it would be OPs word vs the boss in the eyes of the higher ups.

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Jakob2255 12

it's not copyrighgt at all... any work you do belongs to that company not to a worker.

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BrotherPhil 35

It may be plagiarism, as #20 noted, but for him to feel free to pull shit like this suggests that higher management are cool with it, and may even approve. Remember in future that, in management, sociopathy is considered a positive character trait.

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orsombre_fml 11

Depends of your country's laws, but it can be construed as a breach of verbal contract.

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catkat1988 17

File a complaint through the official channels - HR or his boss. If that doesn't work, show him that he has created a work environment where working hard and being dedicated doesn't pay off by being all the opposite things and just doing little things to make his day difficult. While that's not constructive in the least, this situation might call for some kind of revenge.

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pimrol 16

he is ine very cold hearted scrooge.

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FerniieBabiie 14

Is there anyone higher than him? Head quarters? You should all report him for immature behaviour and being a crappy boss!

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comment11111 39

That would be immature behaviour. The only effect would be that he's seen as the whiner.

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jazzy_123 20

seen as a whiner? for reporting his stupid, immature boss who is trying to take all the credit for his employees hard work.. Yeah super whiny.

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Jakob2255 12

again welcome to the real world that is why he hired them to do the work so he doesn't have to same as his boss sill take credit as it goes up the ladder.

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comment11111 39

Guys, that's reality, not plagiarism: His boss leads the team, so he is the one who enables them of you to do your jobs, e.g. keeps others from giving you additional tasks. Everyone knows that the boss could not have finished the project alone. He needed the team members. At last: Don't complain at HR - all you can manage is to create a barrier between you and your boss. And who will finally decide about your bonus or promotions? In the end, it is not the job of HR to help you, but protect the company against you - e.g. lawsuits. Worst case: You'll get on the black list of "dangerous employees".

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91hayek 31

This seems to be indicative of a larger problem. Keep us posted OP about what happens with this assface; most likely he's into even more unethical things either at work or in his personal life. These kind of things come to a head eventually. It takes a special kind of sociopathy to lie like that.

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BrotherPhil 35

Not really - management is full of them.

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