My boss took credit for my work, so I exposed his dirty secrets.

In 2021, for 18 months, I'd been working from home, as most of us had.

From a work perspective, this has been great.

I've been more productive than when I'm in the office, been able to work more flexible hours,

and have saved a ton of money by not commuting.

My workplace had an agreement that those working from home can do whatever hours they want,

so long as we're able to answer urgent calls and core hours and get all of our work done.

Fair enough, as far as I'm concerned. For 16 months, this worked great, as above.

Then over a few weekends, I had a clear

out of the house and took pictures of all the items that were in good condition, but we no longer wanted,

with the view of giving them away to whoever wants them. One day when I was working from home,

I took my lunch break, made a quick sandwich and posted the items that I'm giving away on one of

those local Facebook free pages. I didn't know it I'm giving away on one of those local Facebook

free pages. I didn't know it at the time, but one of the managers, we'll call them shambles

henceforth, from my work, was also signed up to that page and he saw my post. He then took it

upon himself to go to the owner of the company and tell him that I was slacking off and posting

on Facebook during work hours. For context, this wasn't my boss, who was super chill as long as

everything was done on time, nor was the complaint to my direct boss, but to the owner of the

company. We're a big business, so there's a lot of people in the chain of command between me and

the owner. And to top it off, I'd been doing a lot of people in the chain of command between me and the owner.

And to top it off, I'd been doing a lot of work for shambles.

It outsourced the running of entire projects to me over the past 18 months,

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