Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is dealing with coworkers who take the credit for your work. The quick and dirty

tip is to marry them in a community property state, then divorce them after they've done all the hard

work of turning your ideas into a

billion-dollar empire, you could have, listener John writes in, how do you deal with a coworker who

likes to hog credit and delegate blame? He says, that project is late? You never sent me the file I needed.

Note, Simone sent the file a week ago. Or, he liked my idea, great!

Note, not his idea.

How would you silence the

My Win, Your Loss type of personality?

The bottom line is it sounds like Sleesboy, or S.B. for short,

needs a developmental talking to by his boss.

If that isn't in the cards, then you'll need to put

some effort into dealing with SB yourself. In most cases, it's illegal to gag someone against

their will. What you do depends on your goal. If your goal is Zen-like spiritual enlightenment,

then you meditate for 40 years until you're so at peace with the flow of life that nothing

he says or does can disturb you at all.

Since you wrote me and not the Dalai Lama, that's probably not your goal.

Don't put Slees' boy in his place.

If your goal is to put Slees boy in his place, don't.

I know you want to.

Reading your letter?

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