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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice guy overall but often seems to think I’m his admin/assistant. His requests are disruptive and not my job. I’m senior to him

Eg we are working on a project together and he’ll say ‘can you find those documents for me and send them?’

There’s an admin for our group who reports to me, but helps everyone, so lately he seems to reach out to her more often, but somehow still loops me in ‘is Larla available ? I emailed her for a doc at noon, and it’s now 12:15 and she hasn’t responded to me’ ‘oh wait, she responded’. [/quote]

Please don't talk to his manager. He's doing this because you are a woman (he may not even be conscious that's why he's doing it), and as a woman in the workplace you HAVE TO be able to deal with this.

But there are two issues here - 1) does he have what he needs to do his part of the job on a project? i.e. - when he asks for documents are these docs he has or has access to, but is too lazy to go gather?; and 2) what is the admin's role?

-If under number 1, he's just lazy then be direct - Larlo, those docs are in your email/in the shared folder, please find them in there. If it's the admin's job to gather the docs for a project and then get them to him, then direct him to her. You can emphasize that it's not your job by directing him to your admin every time and by ignoring his emails.

Other tips, meet in your office at a set meeting time and cut the meeting off when it's scheduled to end. Task him with follow up. Basically, be the boss that you are.[/quote]

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