Games You Should Have Learned As A Student: Letting The Brass Take Most or All Of The Credit

 A peculiar post popped up on professional network Fishbowl:

"Had an argument with a partner last night. He wanted me to prepare a presentation he was going to hold on recent developments in the law within our field. I asked him whether I was going to make the presentation that he was going to hold by himself and in his own name only, and he said yes. I then said that either we hold it together and I get to speak just a little or at least stand there, or he does it himself ..."

From graduate/professional school on (and if we are lucky in college and are invited to participate in a publishing project) the game is about this: Doing the heavy lifting in research, interviews, writing, and editing. Then either the name of the brandname professional who assigns this project is listed first and ours in a secondary manner or we are not mentioned at all. 

So, it is a suprise that a subordinate in professional services took this combative stance. No surprise, the majority of responses panned both this behavior and this mindset. 

In that entity we call "working" we trade off our labor for income. If the tasks don't involve a breach of ethics or criminal activity we do it. If we do it well or for those with power and influence we can "get ahead." If we don't have the opportunity to showcase our abilities in that manner we could be stuck. And, horrors, if we balk, we could be out. 

The management-labor contract is mutating. But making the brass look good as a success tool hasn't.

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