@PATLABORVI in a similar vein, I remember being in a meeting at one of my former jobs where we had a lot of managers and execs in the room. I don’t remember the exact topic of discussion after all these years, but I remember having a brainstorm and describing what I thought was a brilliant plan. I was met with stony silence from the whole room, and I thought my idea was basically dead since the discussion continued on as if I hadn’t said a word. Fast forward about a half hour, and one of the VPs present in the meeting proceeds to lay out the exact same plan which I had described earlier, even borrowing some of my terminology. Of course, now the room is awash with praise: “what a great idea boss, how come i didn’t think of that”, etc. Needless to say, in an act of what I can only describe as mass doublethink, they had all seemingly forgotten that I had ever spoken in the first place. There was only one other guy (my direct supervisor) who would admit to hearing me come up with the idea first, and he warned me not to mention it in the future. I left not long after that, for obvious reasons.
@PATLABORVI in a similar vein, I remember being in a meeting at one of my former jobs where we had a lot of managers and execs in the room. I don’t remember the exact topic of discussion after all these years, but I remember having a brainstorm and describing what I thought was a brilliant plan. I was met with stony silence from the whole room, and I thought my idea was basically dead since the discussion continued on as if I hadn’t said a word. Fast forward about a half hour, and one of the VPs present in the meeting proceeds to lay out the exact same plan which I had described earlier, even borrowing some of my terminology. Of course, now the room is awash with praise: “what a great idea boss, how come i didn’t think of that”, etc. Needless to say, in an act of what I can only describe as mass doublethink, they had all seemingly forgotten that I had ever spoken in the first place. There was only one other guy (my direct supervisor) who would admit to hearing me come up with the idea first, and he warned me not to mention it in the future. I left not long after that, for obvious reasons.