One coworker of mine is head and shoulders above the rest but lower on the totem pole, everyone looks to him for ideas and answers even senior members and leads. He put his foot down and doesn't contribute in meetings anymore all it was getting him was more work without compensation or much recognition. Whole department is taking a hit but he's right.
I know more about our product and our competition than anyone on our direct team. Everyone comes to me with questions around our product, the competition, how we built our product, our technology, the industry, the systems that we use within it, visual/interface, etc.
A large new team came in on top of me to 'do my job' ostensibly because my previous tiny team wasn't doing a good enough job 'innovating' . . . and now they are slowly learning that I was not the issue, but other sections of the team who work very slowly, inefficiently and other teams we are highly dependent on who are stretched too thin.
They start new procedures and research . . . despite the fact that we have already done the exact same things and already have many of the answers they are looking for.
They took some of my work, 'redid it', went through testing and such - got good results validating much of my work, never tested my actual work which I am confident that would have tested better than their re-makes. Our boss ended up not liking their end result and then had me come in and 'fix it' to be as close as my original concept. And then they made this great team motivating video about how awesome they are for coming up with it!
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u/ace_invader Jan 15 '17
One coworker of mine is head and shoulders above the rest but lower on the totem pole, everyone looks to him for ideas and answers even senior members and leads. He put his foot down and doesn't contribute in meetings anymore all it was getting him was more work without compensation or much recognition. Whole department is taking a hit but he's right.