Short version of the story is this.

I'm an IT systems administrator who works under a systems manager who works under a CIO. The systems manager has been very impressive since he started 3 months ago, but being on the bottom rung I get stuck with a lot of the crap jobs and that's okay. I have less experience (only 7 years) and less education, so whatever.

Since I started last year I've been in charge of the company's backup system, and have updated documentation, managed implementation of expanded storage space, scheduling of backup jobs, restoring files -- all me. (Backup Exec 2012 sucks btw). CIO even told me to 'own' the backup procedures. That's my responsibility, in total.

I should say first that our company pays bonuses based on completed projects, and I don't really have any projects right now. If I inherit, am given, or create a project which creates something beneficial to the company, I get a bonus.

So once the new fiscal year started and the manager implemented a new network storage device with lots of extra space on it as well as a new VMware server, I decided voluntarily to take on a project. I would create a new backup server VM from scratch, implement new agents on all of the servers to be backed up, recreate a new backup schedule, and switch from a full strategy to a differential strategy, expanding thus our restore window from one week/monthly, to one month/monthly. (Big improvement.) The differential strategy would also save time.

So I started building the narrative documents and spreadsheets and project control forms, and even created a cool power point presentation to present at our monthly world-wide IT meeting, so I could tell everyone about this great new backup strategy and all of its benefits.

Manager says "Hold off on presenting it at the big monthly IT meeting... you will need more data." I have data. "Yeah, but you will need more real data from within our environment. Run reports, do some tests. "I need the VM created to do the tests, and you're the only one with access to that. "I'll spin up the VM for you. Later."

IT meeting day, still no VM. I have decided to, indeed, hold off on presenting my new strategy presentation with all of its pie charts, bar charts, graphs, spreadsheets, narratives and documentation. Not worried, there's no rush. The VM will be created soon so I can begin doing those tests I need.

My turn to present what I've been doing at the meeting, so I go through my whole thing and as a side note at the end, "Also, I'm working on a new backup strategy to take advantage of our expanded network storage, we desperately need it for many reasons!" CIO: "Oh, that's Manager's project."

...what. WAHT.

"Yeah, Biscuit, I'll be spearheading that so you just give me a hand with it when I ask, I'll probably have you walk me through the scheduling process."

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT

That... ISMYPROJECT. I am the one who convinced you we needed it! I pushed for it! I did most of the groundwork, the legwork, the research! There would be no backup strategy project if not for me. That has always been my project, which I made, for myself. B(

WHAT

Biscuit: "Uh, well actually I had imagined myself in the role of managing that project."

CIO: "Backups are extremely important, we need Manager to handle that."

Biscuit: "B... but.. okay."

Manager doesn't know anything about our current backup strategy, next to nothing about our network architecture, and specifically tried to talk me out of taking the differential strategy -- preferring to stick to full daily backups (status quo) which would -not- improve our procedures. Not moving to differentials means the whole project doesn't even matter. But now that my project is now HIS project for some reason, it's not even going to get done!

We are going to end up with an equally inefficient strategy to the one we have (just different), and Manager will get the bonus for completing the project.

I'm just--

Fuckit. B(