ULPT Request: Self-destructing files to f-over selfish coworkers.

Posted by sudoblack@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 10 comments

I'm tasked with creating detailed work that I believe others do not have ths skills I have to create. This work is substatial to the company and carries heavy weight. I want my work to be noticed and only control by myself. I work in a windows and sharepoint environment.

I also know that these Gen-X and boomer coroworkers know how to attempt to take others' work and claim it as their own even if they only contribute 10% or less. I need to thwart this while still presenting my work as available for others to review.

I'd like to know if theres a way to automate or bake-in some contengency such as locking, watermark, uneditable, un copy-pastable work for myself to not lose ownership of my documents: .doc, .xls, .pdf's mainly.

Ultimately I don't even want to even turn over my work to my own team because I know I outshine them in technical ability and content knowledge. This is a greater issue that I know you guys are gonna say "just move jobs". No, I can't right now and I still provide value in other departments. Just my own has been taken over by awful logic and toxic management. I'll wait it out.

I also have a suspecision that my work could be completed and then I be let go. How can I make sure my uploaded files become corrupted or unusable after a certain amout of time that validates my continued existence in the company to re-up the files to "fix" them. Is there anything like that around?

Tips!?

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LXVIIIKami@reddit

Go to the page header/footer and write "Made by ..." in white

sudoblack@reddit (OP)

This is a good one.

Pomegranate_1328@reddit

Password protect the files. Then they have to ask. Just say, oops my stuff kept disappearing so I added a password.

potatodrinker@reddit

Document but write some critical steps in impractically vague terms.

Copy data from here to there. Some other stuff

Then deploy relevant mathematical model and run it.

Upload actionable business insights into board report to drive crazy revenue gains.

Save report as V2.

theBoobMan@reddit

Just start hiding your initials or some other signature in your work that you know they'll miss.

Skeggy-@reddit

Just document your work. There is already metadata and your technical skill pretty much signing it. You can also save to flash storage until it’s time to present.

Self destructing files just adds to the toxicity and is pretty pointless. If they want to recover a file, a simple pull from the daily backups can do that.

Use spellcheck if you’re gonna boast about your skills and technical ability bro.

Yea I was writing fast. Good thing reddit isn't a job, else I would have given the post more editing time.

Self destructing files don’t exist when your org does daily backups. File restoration takes a few clicks. That’s why it’s pointless.

WROL@reddit

He has some good points. No need to go nuclear, just document the hell out of everything, and if and when they attempt to take credit for your work you can show the evidence to your boss, or put them on blast via email.

Popular-Drummer-7989@reddit

If your work is stored in your profile and not in sharepoint/teams or if it's stored in any share that you are the sole owner of

And

The IT rule is that your profile is permanently deleted after XX days following your termination

Then

your work magically disappears and there's no getting it back from the magical cloud.

That's the process... you didn't even have to do anything. They do it to themselves.