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I have a coworker whom, for lack of nicer words, is lazy. So lazy to the point where he seems to sleep often during work with no repercussions. Regardless, that is besides the point. We have been working on a project that was supposed to be completed together, but due to his insane amount of laziness and lack of forethought has been stuck on a bug for over a month. Today, I had realized that a pull request was made, and accepted into the master branch of the project. The only issue is, the code that was merged into the master branch was my code line for line stolen out of my dev branch and put into my other employees dev branch that he then pushed as his own code. I am honestly at a loss for words, and I am unsure how to move forward from here. Obviously, I can prove that I wrote the code first, but does that even matter? Is it even legal for him to take my code and say it is his even though we are working at the same company? So many questions.






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