“I pulled an all-nighter on this”

My manager takes credit for my work in meetings and never corrects it when others notice.

What's really going on

Senior people rarely see your work directly. They see whoever presents it. Credit sticks to the presenter, not the author, so your manager ends up as the face of your output by default, and often not out of malice.
Your manager is formally on the hook for the team's results, so saying "I" or "my team" feels technically true to them, even when it wipes out who actually did the work.
As work travels up the chain it gets squashed into bullet points, and the first detail to get cut is who did what.
Sometimes it really is ego. Taking credit gets rewarded with promotions more reliably than sharing it, so the incentive runs the wrong way.

What to say

To your manager, privately, first time

"Hey, got a minute? Quick one about yesterday's meeting. The [project] came across as yours, and I wasn't sure if that was on purpose or just how it came out in the moment. How do you usually like to handle who gets named for what? It matters to me because it's how people above you find out what I do."

Change the words so they sound like you, but keep the tone.

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