I have had a couple of great bosses and a few real stinkers. Turned out, the best tactic for me was to take the high road and do all I could to make the boss look good by giving my best performance. I had to decide that my loyalty is to my employer - and that although the person might be a jerk, the position he holds requires my best efforts to support.
You might try sitting down with him and in a non-emotional way, ask about the changes he made. I would tell him you don't want him to have to spend so much of his time editing my work, so if you could understand his reasoning, perhaps you could write the next project the way he would like. At the same time, you could say you noticed a couple of minor typos and offer to correct them.
I had a boss that used to change everything I wrote just so he could feel that it was his work, not mine. I used this tactic on him and it worked. A couple of times I went to him with a sentence I knew was poorly worded and said I had writer's block. Then I let him "figure out" how I wanted to word it in the first place. I never did change my writing style, but it let him think he was the superior writer, which was all he wanted in the first place.
At one point, he told his boss in my presence that he had written a procedure manual that I wrote and gave to his boss before he was hired. The big boss looked at me - and I just smiled and rolled my eyes. I was dismissed from the meeting, but as I was in the outer office, I heard the big boss tell my boss exactly what he thought of people claiming other people's work. My boss took a "voluntary" retirement not long afterward.
These jerks eventually get found out and I believe that karma does catch up with them. |