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Clearly you and your manager have different expectations about the EA role you're filling. Neither are wrong, just different. I know many EA's who were routinely responsible for getting lunch orders for management, as well as many EA's who weren't.
Since she is your manager and ultimately the one who decides whether you are doing a good job or not, you need to figure out if you're going to live up to HER expectations of the role or not. If not, then you need to find a new job.
Clearly you and your manager have different expectations about the EA role you're filling. Neither are wrong, just different. I know many EA's who were routinely responsible for getting lunch orders for management, as well as many EA's who weren't.
Since she is your manager and ultimately the one who decides whether you are doing a good job or not, you need to figure out if you're going to live up to HER expectations of the role or not. If not, then you need to find a new job.
I don't see a problem if "Jack and Jill" want something from the same place that I am going to buy food. Maybe "Jack and Jill" can not leave the building. Maybe "Jack and Jill" don't know that they can call other places and have food delivered to them. Maybe the area that "Jack and Jill" work in they don't have places that will deliver food.
As long as "Jack and Jill" are covering their part of the bill then who cares.
What I do not like is the idea that something is not part of my job. I hate it when people say, "That is not in my job description." We all have our own "Jack and Jill's" at our places of work that ask us things that may not be part of a job description. We do it because "Jack and Jill" ask for it and they are more than likely further up the food chain than we are. Ever heard of being a team player?
Something that many may need to consider is that it is in our best interest to do all we can for the organization that we work for.
First the focus should always be on things that are essential to our job. Getting lunch is not an essential part of the job, especially not an essential part of the job to get "Jack and Jill" there lunch. Lets say that the essential things are covered and someone is going out of the building then those things that are just good to do fall into play. It is good to get "Jack and Jill" lunch from time to time. Make sure that you are getting the credit for it though. Imagine an employee that gets all the essential things done and still has time to do all the good things. That is an awesome employee. That is someone that can be called on to move up within the organization. That is a person that could rub shoulders with the "Jack and Jill's" of the world.
You ask if anyone wants something before you head out. That's corteousy.
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