summarizing a common situation for every political nincompoop in the tech industry Employee X is at a mid-senior level, has a colleague at same level Y. X joined team 2/3 years ago Y. Manager divides project and assigns core feature work to X while convinces Y to do a cross team feature work and collaboration with dependent team. X gets visibility and a PM support while Y does all the grunt work. product gets launched 🎉, PM comes up with “impact” numbers. ✨Hard working✨ EM attributes everything to himself and X, sets em up for promo. The dependent team gets attributed with remaining numbers. but neat part is Y gets to be a ✨team playa✨ what’s your piece of advice for nincompoop Y? #tech