A rant on some people's habit of not giving credit where credit is due

Warning: This is a rant, filled with resentment and lack of faith into whatever is tied to the subject at hand, reader's discretion is advised. I kept everything unclear to protect myself and the target of my wrath.

It isn't a new thing on the internet when people are not credited for their work, some are even go unpaid for the work they have done.

This is something I personally always had a good bit of hate for, but I would have never known it would hit me personally, and I would have never known how much it would hurt both my pride and faith in humanity.

Today I received word of a company I worked for, which I won't name for obvious reasons, prided themselves of having a certain piece of software I made (which I'm quite proud of, but is no "perfection incarnated"), saying that said piece of software was "great because they made it".

When I heard such words, my blood instantly sublimated.

Honestly I would have been ok with such company just stating that "it was made by a partner in the past", but taking ownership of something that is demonstrably not theirs is something I loathe.

I am livid.

Considering such work went unpaid and uncredited , I think I have all the rights to be in such mental state.

Let's face it, "paying" someone with "exposition" is a lot like giving them "monopoly money", it's not worth much, but when you're not even willing to pay "monopoly money" to someone, then we have reached a new low.

I've read articles about reviewers being removed from a review website and their works being attributed to the website owner ( see the forbes article ), artists that have been promised "exposure" from people who just wanted free goods, so on and so forth.

If you ask a professional for something, pay for their work and if they are willing to trade for "exposition" give them exposition and maybe some money on top too just for the fact that they would accept "exposition" as payment!

Sadly, it really seems that in the world of business, ethics (read "basic human decency") don't apply: you work hard for months and all you get promised is exposure, you spend hours commuting for "monopoly money", you work while everyone else is on vacation and you get nothing .

Not even monopoly money.

That is all, have a good one.

Penaz