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What the heck?
If you have promised to achieve something by a deadline at work, how do you feel when your BOSS, your boss, not your partner, assigns it to someone else, and when you ask why, your boss says, "well you had promised but I knew you weren't going to get it done on time so I assigned it to someone else."
If I made a promise to my boss and failed to deliver without appropriate notice, I would expect some kind of negative consequences. My boss isn't paying me to watch TV or otherwise goof off. I am being paid to produce a specific result, and failure to do so is going to end badly in some way.
Is this really how you behave at work, making empty promises to your boss and then complaining when your job is reassigned?