Told my junior the optimization idea i was going to say in the upcoming meeting

Fucking guy stole it and got all the claps in the evening meeting

Now i cant even look at his face.

Is this how dave.cpp was born?

Next time tell him about an idea that has a huge flaw but let it be precise so that he can't figure it out on his own

Hey good for him, he showed that hes a weasel and hell do well in office politics. When hes in over his head and needs you to fix everything, let him take the credit for delegating to those who actually know their shit. Chances are good he only knows enough karate to lose a fight. However that saying goes.

@SubhrajyotiSen yes. Do it in a way where there is plausible deniability... so when he says "But @BroCow said to use jQuery!" you don't gain infamy. In other words don't email or message the faux solution.

I would advocate directness. Don't play silly games.

Ask if you can speak to him for 5 mins. Go somewhere official like a meeting room. Ask him why he done it. Put him on the spot. Shame him.

I can't remember the movie but there was a line:

"If you piss someone off they will be angry at you. If you humiliate them they will fear you forever".

Always stuck with me.

@BroCow you should've started speaking when he was speaking, or done speaking, and said; Yeah, like I told you earlier, doing X will optimise it by Y percent, because bla bla bla.
Then the others would, hopefully, realise it was your idea, and not that imbecile

@SSDD This this this this this.

@SSDD this has the most integrity. Play it as an adult, nothing else.

In dev culture this is considered a dick move

@dalastTomCruise agreed.