By blagger I mean people who do no or little work but keenly take credit for any good results. Not necessarily pushing someone else aside, but still acting like they made an important contribution. It's obviously a very successful strategy for them (much in demand and widely highly regarded).
When actually they did Feck All to get the project / report / objectives done. Maybe a few "director" type sentences (probably useless ideas, too) about what should be done, but no actual work or thinking or planning or doing. They are usually senior to me or invited to contribute by my seniors, so not my place to say "You Useless Idiot."
I would love to hear your stories about blaggers at your workplace to help me feel better about my blagger colleagues. I'm feeling mini-rage at their CFery right now.
One of my colleague-blaggers has this MO he signs up to be a project leader on some exciting initiative this looks good on his performance reviews. Having waffled & waved his hands at others in planning meetings about what they need to do just before he needs to put some real time into making project happen he literally gets someone else to do it because he's "too busy" or "forgot" he had booked to go on holiday.
Another Blagger recently sent comments what to do to improve an interim progress report I wrote. He cc'd this to another colleague who hasn't read the report (either) so looks like Blagger made astute useful observations I can act on. In reality his comments were like this... (with my thoughts )
"This report would really benefit from sub-category costings"
Like the ones already on page 20?
".. and detailed clear deliverables"
Already on page 16-19.
"Plus I really think this needs a GANTT chart"
Already on page 23.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....