How to cope with your boss who rains on your parade by stealing our ideas abd blocking your promotion. Cope in a professional manner and consider imitation as the best form of flattery. There really is not a whole lot you can do except make yourself appear insubordinate by raising your hand at the meeting and saying "Uh, Boss, that was my idea you just mentioned." A statement in front of your peers would make you seem like dampening the boss thunder by stealing his glory. You would be stealing his glory because basically his job is to use the talents of his workers to make the working place processes more efficient and workable. That is why you should feel flattered that the boss is not stealing your ideas but using your ideas to make the workplace better. You do have some very relevant and good ideas, right?

Your boss will begin to look at you as a team player if you silently keep the above statement of ownership of an idea to yourself. Mentally, commend your self for coming up with the idea and then see if you can become a part of management. If you want to be recognized for your ideas and to be heard, then you should be looking into a management position. If the boss keeps using your ideas then it is apparent that you have something to bring to the table.

Being a team player is the optimal position of an employee in a company or business that is profit seeking or a non-profit organization. A person with an attitude is the one who separated him or herself from the group and want to be acknowedged for every little thing that they do. Most of the time these type of people needs recognition and wants to be credited with each contribution that they make in the company. A strong management type of person would listen to their idea being used and be happy that they were able to contribute. Do not try to get your recognition by "rocking the boat;" remain a team player.

Your contribution was probably not comparable to the cost of an expensive lottery ticket, if that gives you some comforting relief. Ideas abound and when the ideas are shared is when a company makes progress. If there was animosity between you and the boss then one can see how you would become upset. Why? Because you do not want to help the boss with his problems because of a personal vindetta. If there had been bad chemistry between the two of you, then you should keep a low profile and try to rise above the circumstance and silently resolve to either find a more comfortable place to work or move on to another job in the same company.

Boss stealing ideas have been around every since McDonalds stole the idea of drive through hamburger restaurants from Richfood Restaurants. Whenever a good idea crops up in America, there are alway two or three followers putting their own individual stamp on the process, product or idea. Stealing or borrowing ideas to make things better is just the American Way. Look at what Christopher Columbus stole from the Indians. This picture is a bit larger than the questions of the boss stealing ideas, but it personifies that ideas are not normally stored for safekeeping until the originator gets in the position to present it.

Feel flattered and impressed that you boss "stole" you idea and make a mental note to move on and to let it go. Do not make a scene at a meeting or write his boss to tell him that any idea was yours. You will then be putting your attitude on paper which is not good. Let your co-workers think of you as a team player and remember that a good attitude is more important than accolades of recognition of an idea. You have the ideas but the boss has to power to use your idea, acknowledge use of your idea or ignore that you presented the idea. There is no bill of rights as to how the bosses handle employees' idea.

A good boss will give recognition where recognition is due. But if you have a boss lacking goof employee relations in the form of giving credit where credit is due, silently acknowledge the use of your ideas and be gratified that your idea was used and promptly move on.