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Should I cut my losses and exit this company due to my bosses antics?

I work for a 3500 person company. I'm a director reporting to a VP. My immediate peers are 2 other people. He reports to a COO. List of things he's done: Often will get me to present a slide or two of my thought leadership that I developed to him, and then he will present it without me in the meeting to others, and update me about the feedback about those slides and what people said. The COO will email him asking a question or wanting info, he will forward it to me not including the COO. I will respond to my boss. He will take my words, copy and paste a response back to the COO without including me. The odd time he will include me, but use the response as his word for word. He will ask me to book a meeting, I will think since I book…


I work for a 3500 person company. I'm a director reporting to a VP. My immediate peers are 2 other people. He reports to a COO. List of things he's done:

  1. Often will get me to present a slide or two of my thought leadership that I developed to him, and then he will present it without me in the meeting to others, and update me about the feedback about those slides and what people said.
  2. The COO will email him asking a question or wanting info, he will forward it to me not including the COO. I will respond to my boss. He will take my words, copy and paste a response back to the COO without including me. The odd time he will include me, but use the response as his word for word.
  3. He will ask me to book a meeting, I will think since I book the meeting I am leading the conversation. I prepare to lead. Within 2 seconds of meeting starts, he kicks off the meeting
  4. I organized a full offsite agenda for the executives. Slides the agenda etc the whole works. He didn't include me in a single agenda item, he presented all of it, and of course gave zero credit. I prepared all of the slides, meeting ideas, etc. I was most junior person there other than executives but still. Throw me a bone?
  5. He will ask me to book a meeting with all of the VPs. I do this every quarter. And then a week later, he pulls me off it (I've been doing it already for 4 quarters), and asks someone else in my peer group to do it.
  6. I developed a schedule of next steps for a big project for Q4. Sent the schedule over to the operations group, and a few key leaders. He takes that email, copies and pastes the table, and sends it over to some VPs and his assistant asking to book meetings based off the schedule. No email chain or reference to me.
  7. I'm constantly told I should be doing this should be doing that, and a week later he changes his mind, meanwhile I get to start working on whatever he asked me to do.
  8. Changes my job or priorities constantly but won't change my performance goals to match what he says.
  9. Overall just constantly stifles any sort of communication between me and uppers (in my role j should have that visibility), asks me what to do constantly, repeats it to others, and then that project or work gets initiated, often without me doing the work, even though it's sometimes related to my area.

There's more but I'll start here. Overreacting?

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