Workplace Rant....What to do?? Kinda Long...Sorry

Unless there are $s coming your way, keep your head down and mouth shut..no one is going to thank you .. ever..for pointing out what you see... I think you are very lucky and perhaps dodged a bullet..

When I worked for Imper oil, we had something call "coin your idea". If you saw something that could save the refinery monies, you gave it to the boss in writing. When the company implemented your idea, you were kicked back 5% (I think..I left them in '83) of the savings for the first year. There were a lot of happy folks (including management and the company)

Rather than dumping on others, you were showing the company how to be more profitable. I should not that we were not unionized and we didn't want to become so...we were paid better than another refinery down the road from us...

We had something similar, but they gave you $20, but most of the time, they would either find fault with the ideas or dismiss them altogether, then 3-6 months later they(management) would come up with the same idea, with no credit to the original thinker.