Oh, I'm upset
I'm working with this very old man who should have retired years ago, and he's very clever and everybody knows it and respects it. Talking about the project a week ago, in private, I told him that I thought we could simplify very much part of the process by doing this and this. Today, he comes into the office and starts telling everybody that he's got this idea and we can simplify the project by doing this and this. That's my idea. Grrrrr
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:32, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Claim it back loudly in public.
In future don't give your ideas away. Colleagues are mostly cunts in this respect.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)

I know now
Next time I have an idea I'm saying it out loud in front of everyone. Bastard.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:35, Reply)

So long as the idea is not: I need a huge dump.
That's a good idea.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:38, Reply)

Yes, that's true
I just told a friend and colleague about what happend, and she thinks he just didn't hear me when I said it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:52, Reply)

Front him up.
Remind him it was your idea.

Don't be too nice about it either.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:34, Reply)

This^
Cheeky bastard
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:35, Reply)

He's 73 years old
and a character. Everybody adores him. I'm the new "young lady" of the office. They'll never believe me. At most, they'll think he didn't hear me when I said it and had the idea of his own.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:36, Reply)

that's still no excuse
you'll have to drop it subtly into conversation with the boss: 'XXX tells me you liked my idea about A,B,C. I'm glad I mentioned it to him.'

Alternatively, start very minutely moving his stuff, claiming you can't see or hear certain things that he can, and make him think he is losing his mind. Or slash his tyres.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:39, Reply)

*applause*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:45, Reply)

I'm guessing you mean the mindfuck idea
rather than the sensible 'talk to your boss' idea?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:53, Reply)

He comes by train
but I'll do that moving things around bit. Sounds like fun anyway.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:52, Reply)

I am liking your work more and more

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:54, Reply)

I really can be cruel and devious
when I need to.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:56, Reply)

good stuff

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:56, Reply)

Let him know you think what he did was wrong and leave it.

( girlinthehole, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:41, Reply)

You work with Monty?

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:41, Reply)