A Coworker Steals Your Idea
You pitched an idea and a colleague presented it as their own. Idea theft is a work fail where the damage is invisible to everyone except you. Twelve thousand points lost because the theft was probably not even malicious your colleague absorbed your framing, forgot the source, and repeated it as original thought, which is how most idea theft actually works. The aura loss is in the proof problem. You cannot claim the idea back without looking petty, so you have to eat the theft and watch your contribution become someone else quarterly highlight. The deeper fail signal is that you pitched the idea in a setting without a paper trail, which means your instinct for self attribution is underdeveloped. The recovery is to start writing things down. Send the idea in an email before you say it out loud. Put your name on the document before you share the document. The aura lesson is that ideas are currency, and currency left unattended tends to migrate, and the workplace does not punish theft it rewards presentation. The… A Coworker Steals Your Idea is a work event in the major tier, worth -12,000 aura points. Compare it with Getting Hard Carried by Your Team and Getting Ratioed on a Public Post, or browse the full aura events index to see where it ranks.