How do you deal with a manager who steels credit for the work you have done?

I can't say that happens for my work because, most of the time, the work is parceled out and the manager doesn't do any of the actual work. Whether it not it gets done can be directly tied to the person designated to do it. Ideas are another story.

I've come up with a lot of ideas about better ways to do something and the team leader blows it off. A few weeks later they implement the idea and he takes all the credit for coming up with the idea. It happens often enough and doesn't affect my pay or raises so I just ignore it.

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