A little background: I joined this company (large company, 10,000+ employees, USA based) less than 6 months ago, and it is a small team of 7 people. My reporting manager (the person above me in the hierarchy) is someone with less than half my experience and he was promoted to this position (he has less than a year of experience) only because the team lead, who is a VP, has close relations with him, and therefore tends to favor and side with him. When I joined, a couple of other people were much more experienced and qualified to supervise me, but it did not happen. Anyway, even though he is my supervisor according to the team hierarchy, I have never worked with him because we work on separate projects. So in a way, his role is merely for the formalities and the necessary project related approvals.
The problem: After a few weeks of joining, I noticed that he mentioned a project that I alone was working on, on his LinkedIn profile. At first, I thought since we had casually discussed something related to the project, so it would be alright if he wrote it. And then it kept getting bad from there. After that, there have been 2 more major projects (on which I worked solo), wherein he had absolutely no contribution whatsoever (not even any ideas/suggestions). On top of that, he writes things like:
Leading all efforts on ......
Single handedly developed .....
How should I deal with this? I don't exactly know how this is going to affect me, but I think taking the credit from someone is in itself unethical. I thought of speaking about this with the team lead (he is a Vice President), but I was not sure if he would side with my colleague and consider this to be a trivial issue.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Thank you.