“I know you do not have any knowledge of this, but I want you to make a manual because you’re better at it.”
I am a mechanical engineer. I am being asked to make a manual of the user interface and I need to be sure to include all of the software changes that was made. You may ask why isn’t the software engineer who made these changes isn’t updating the manual … and it’s because I am “better at it and will do a good job”. But I don’t need to worry about not having the information, because the software engineer who made the changes will be working with me to ensure I have all the accurate information. All the other engineers are men by the way. So now there will be two engineers working on one manual… one who has nothing to contribute besides formatting. The software engineer is also a guy, and started roughly at the same time I did and is roughly the same age as me. But I don’t need to worry, I was reassured in the email that this is not a punishment, and simply because I will be better [at formatting] than the software engineer.
I’m deleting this later to reduce the risk of someone seeing it; I just needed to vent.