@lucifargundam Doesn't really sound like threatening to me. More like that they don't encourage innovation. The question is: Do you like that, or do you rather want a job where you can be creative with things like you did?

@trinsec

I was told by a coworker that they would report my actions(meant to be made public anyway at a later date in a meeting) to the authorities if I didn't stop immediately.

What I did wasn't illegal, but it is a gray area per paper policy- and widely frowned upon vocally. However, the higher ups I talked to already encouraged me to do so.

So now I have to establish a meeting before my coworker does(if they haven't already) and display my non-presentable results. This will not look as nice, as the $$ hasn't been made easily communicable yet- it's still in a non-fungible form.

What gets me, is that I fear that my accomplishments may come off as intimidating- whereas it was always a norm at my previous location. Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about people being afraid of changes- or efficiency.

@lucifargundam Yeah, that sucks. Sounds like the coworker is afaid of losing their job this way if you make things more efficient. But if your higher ups did encourage you, I'd not be too put down by it. Just don't communicate your efforts to your coworkers anymore.