Last year a pipe burst at my work site, as the only person qualified for operating the floor scrubbing machine, I had to spend 5 hours driving it around to suck up as much water as possible. I also had to teach the rest of the staff how to properly use the cleaning equipment eg what side the squeegy needs to be facing for optimum squeegying. The store I worked at opened 3 hours after it was supposed to due to the flooding. My area manager arrived an hour before the store opened, took some photos of the damage and noted how much work needed, instead of grabbing a mop or squeegy and just helping us.
Jump to earlier this week and I find out from a former employee that I'm mates with that the area manager got all the praise and was rewarded gift cards for “being in the trenches” where I got 0 recognition for not only doing my job but also training about 10 people on the fly.
Safe to say this isn't the first time this manager was recognised for other people's work but it shits me that they can keep getting away with it.