Its a bold step but no more bolder than taking credit for someone else’s work.
Mr.\Mrs. Skip level manager,
Here are the things that I’ve been working on and completed as successful.
I thought I’d let you know directly as the SVP has gotten into the habit of taking credit for other peoples work in order that they shine. Not only is this against Citi’s ethics but it also fosters a hostile work environment. Also know that I’ll be forwarding this on to HR for a paper trail in case I get retaliated against by the SVP, which by the way seems to be the norm.
Wait a day, then reply back to your own thread with the SVP cc’d, with: Adding SVP to the cc’ line.
The reason you want to do this so that the skip level manager can see and digest this correspondence unfettered without the SVP attempting spin control. You add the SVP to the thread later so that you make sure the SVP knows that you have their @ss in check.