Cc boss in email

[ThisGutsyBalonz]

We have had several people leave the team and I've been helping with some tasks. I do a complement separate job to the team and managed by Jane. Jane has gone on holiday for 10 days and she will return to hundreds of emails. I'm helping out on Monday, on site. A colleague asked me to print off some letters which I don't mind doing. We are agile so not office based and I planned to either print at my home or go to the office which isn't too far from my house.

I've noticed she's also CCed our manager asking me to print the documents.

Aibu in thinking that's a bit OTT, our manager has hundreds of emails and didn't need to be CC? I was also asked to print something last week and I did as instructed, no issues.

Is it possible Jane has asked to be cc-ed in order to keep an eye on your workload given the recent changes within the team? If I was asking someone to do something that falls outside of their normal duties I would include their manager as well, just to ensure everyone is happy with that person being asked and so I can be directed elsewhere if needed, especially if I don't have the full context of the person's responsibilities or workload the way their manager would.

Maybe just covering there back that the job was delegated if they were sneaky surely they would use bcc.

The manager is on holiday for another week so if the task wasn't done than the manager couldn't help

Also why ask another person to print something out that's 100% related to your job (I can't serve this legal document) and than start to CC in your manager. Either trust the person or do it yourself?

Would our manager stick up for me? The print out is a legal document that I can't serve so really my colleague should be making provisions for her to get it done herself as it's her job?

You would think but it's printing out a couple of pages, and I was being "kind" doing it. Could have said no

I think you’re massively overthinking this.

It could be that the manager wanted to keep track of delegations. Could be that the manager said to them “can you ask Gutsy to print them?” so colleague kept them in copy to show they had. Could be that manager wanted to keep a copy of the final docs and this was the easiest way to share them with her. Could be that, as it’s not strictly your job, they want to ensure you get the credit for picking it up. It could be a million completely valid reasons. There’s nothing to suggest it’s sneaky or about you at all.

If I overthought every time someone was copied into an email that I didn’t think was relevant, I wouldn’t have time to even do my job.

No our boss is away

Just to be clear this is her asking me to print something for her job

Our boss is away for 3 weeks and wouldn't know about this.

I can't do any aspect of her job

Can you tell us what is your true concern with the colleague cc-ing your manager (I assume Jane manages both of you).

It seems like you are reading too much into it. Sure it might be OTT but colleague is also shooting herself in the foot by copying in the manager in that she is asking you to do part of her job.

I cannot really see anything sinister in what she is doing other than implying that you won't help her because it is not your job so she is preemptively trying to get her manager involved in copy so you cannot wiggle out. Is that it?

So? How does that change anything I wrote?

I don't understand why she's CC

I also find it a level of mistrust

Agree it’s ridiculous and thoughtless.

Absolutely no point clogging up the managers email totally unnecessarily.

Yeah, but so what? I agree with a previous poster. Why are you putting so much thought into this? How does your manager being cc'd in actually affect anything? Because I can't see why it matters.

I am failing to see the issue. I got an email from a member of SLT at DD3's school asking me to complete a form and send it to an email address. When I did it, I cc'd the member of SLT in the email. It's communication.

Cc'ing the manager is fine.

You’re right OP - you’re doing her a favour, so it’s weird she’s cc’ing in the manager over something so small and also not your job. The only possible explanation I can see is that she’s letting the manager know you are being helpful but that’s stretching it!

Unless it’s an error?

Sorry but I think you are overthinking this.
don’t let it annoy you.

Because they needed you to fill out a form.

I'm just doing her a favor and printing out paperwork. Manager is away for three weeks. Manager didn't need to know the paperwork was printed.

Who says I'm annoyed?

Maybe you could ask why they done the cc?

Do they know your manager is away?

person needs job done - knows I assume your colleague who usually does the job is away gets out of office saying for such and such contact you. This is slightly outside of such and such so contacts you and cc boss in case it isn’t you and boss can say who it is

or along those lines

why are you giving it so much headspace

It is annoying if not meaningful info. I am a manager that my team cc me in a lot of emails. I don’t care someone has asked someone to print or when they are free for a catch up. I don’t mind bring cc’d for info as it aids communication. But for day to day tasks I don’t care.

I am no micromanager and asked the team to call me if it’s urgent. I trust them to do their job. Their last manager wanted cc’d in everything.

I went on a weeks holiday once and returned to 659 emails. A lot of them didn’t need to be in my inbox and it took a week to read everything. No I wasn’t interested that someone wanted to ask someone to print out.

What a ridiculous thing to start a thread about. Maybe, just maybe it would be more efficient to ask your colleague, rather than asking a bunch of strangers on mumsnet?

If someone was helping me out I'd cc in their manager so their manager knows thier team member has been helpful.

Put it out of your head. Absolutely zero point in pondering something so mundane and inconsequential.

We have the same manager. I'm just not reporting to her, she's their team leader as well