If you want to keep your job, never do anything that might make your boss feel like you are smarter than him or her. I've never encountered anyone more full of themselves than my current manager. If you're not good at making your boss feel proud and confident, while keeping any potential knowledge advantage to yourself, this isn't the place for you.
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This is not a rare species at 3M. Infact 8t is becoming a dominant species because the competent scientist/engineers/workers have left or made to leave.
Report them to E&C and to their managers. Dont report to HR.
Others taking credit for your work is par for the course. That happened to me a few years back but it didn't really bother me. It happened for several months. People kept asking my boss questions, boss would come to me and then I'd answer the requester vicariously through my boss. On repeat. In the end, my boss didn't remember how to do the work anymore and people quickly realized I was the one answering.
Moral of story, don't take credit for everything. Just wait until you're indispensable to your boss and your plant.
Great advice. Our senior manager yelled at me for taking action in a matter. The action I took was within my role and was based on many years of experience. I defended my decision in front of a large group of people. It was later proven that the action I took was correct. The senior manager took the credit for my decision but never acknowledged I made the right decision. The senior manager then made my life miserable at work.
I worked with a guy like this in CBG, but he wasn't my boss.
I've actually had great bosses, but now I'm in IBO and the SVP is like this
Yup, plenty of managers in 3M with impressive number of granted patents ( usually as the 7,8 th or perhaps the 11,12th co inventor not as the primary inventor). At first glance looks pretty impressive right ! Now dig a bit deeper and you realize that the manager has not done a single technical work in many decades !!! These kind of folks, quite a few in 3M, know how to work their way into an IS and eventually an IP. The lead technical person leading the work is sometimes happy to add an extra name to the list of inventors, provided it helps his/ her career in the long term or sometimes the unwritten rule is you * better* include some names if you want a meaningful career in 3M.
So wrong.
I once got a similar advice from a corporate scientists. He told me when he comes up with a good idea and does the needed work to prove the concept, he then invites his lab director to lunch and casually guides him toward the idea. Making it seem as if the director came up with the idea. Then he write the record of invention adding the director's name as inventor. That is how he was promoted to corporate scientist.