What do you do when a developer who has higher title than you; changing a bit of your code to his/her own favor and then claim "fixed and optimized" your code to shoot you down and then take the whole credit?

Essentially how to deal with this kind of theft or robbery?

Dont you use git? It shows who comitted what...

@stack unfortunately people dont go there and check this especially managers in a non software-centric company.

Heartbreaking...

Asshole... I'd stick his head up his ass and break his neck so it stays there 😑

As a person dat has been bullied for about 12 years i have leurend a few things.

-You cant win
-They dont stop
-Ignoring doesnt work

But the good part is dat jou dont actuele have to win. You just have to make the price of bullying you too high.

So are your sure he is doing it on purpese and wil repeat? If so you could call him out infrond of people and demand others to review the code. Just escalate the fuck out of it. Jou dont need to win it just needs to be painfull.

If don correctly he propable wont steal your work again.

@SPA-NL this is actual good advise!

I would say leave a bug, let him "optimize" and then say, you couldn't catch simple bug. Boohoo

I find the reverse even more annoying when i get asked to make a change to a shitty code base then because i made 1 change i am then responsible for all future bugs.

PM's then assume you wrote the whole dam thing and are forced to start rewriting piece by piece.

Do a roll-back, if he/she broke one of your aceptance criterias :) and add your lead to the review. BUT be vulcan about it, NO emotions, facts only. Otherwise it will back-fire.