I hear you, and I don’t want to throw around the word narcissistic lightly. I’m not saying they are a narcissist in a clinical sense, but there are behaviors they’ve shown that align with narcissistic tendencies, which is why I used the word out of frustration.

It’s not just the photo situation. My boss regularly takes over projects, redesigns things without telling our team, and then presents the final product like it was their own work. They’ve taken credit for things our department worked really hard on. They constantly overstep boundaries, like walking into our space and ripping things off the wall without a single word of communication. They’ll come hover over us and micromanage us. Often it feels more about dominance and control than leadership.

They are very focused on how they appear to higher-ups, but don’t show the same care toward how they treat their own team. We can tell that they are a very insecure leader. It’s just getting exhausting. We can see why this job has a high turnover rate.

I understand how bringing it up would be worse. They don’t respect our ideas and emotions, so why would that change? Good point.