Boss shows up with a mylar "congratulations" balloon and cupcakes to a co-worker's desk, announcing his technical promotion, on the basis of technical skills acquired from taking a lead role in some new project.

All the while, this guy works banker's hours, spends most of the day cruising for new attractive female sales trainees (he's married btw), and refuses to do any software fixes (many of them were assigned to me as a result). In fact, hired contractors did all of the legwork on the project...he just got credit for it because he was designated the "lead".

I bust my a$$ daily on this job, got my boss out of many, many tight-a$$ed situations when he asked me to fix something "on-the-fly", have the highest number of software fixes and enhancements and the lowest incident of re-fixes (or highest quality quotient). Every time someone left the department, I took on additional roles and responsibilities unfamiliar to me at the time.

Both of us were hired inder the same job title and have about the same number of years at the company.

When I came on board, I had NONE of the skills required to perform the required duties...within three months I designed the prototype of the application that is now in production today.

I'm not sure what the barometer is for getting rewarded, but it's obviously not hard work and performance!

I am so numb from the experience, I feel like telling my boss to kiss my a$$ and go elsewhere, but that option is not reasonable considering the flat IT market these days. I really want to just shut down and quit producing, since it obviously goes unnoticed.

I am plagued with all sorts of negative feelings and pretty much summed it up as only the *********s and whiny slackers get ahead in this life!

I know it's not a healthy outlook, but right now, I don't see any positive in this.

Thanks for letting me vent...

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