Struggling working with this colleague, Aibu? Need advice

[Twinkle1919]

I’m posting on here for advice really, not sure if I’m being too sensitive.

I have been in my job for about 4 months now, as an apprentice. I am finding myself struggling working alongside a particular colleague for these reasons

1. she is always asking me ‘have you done this ? Have you done that?’
2. she is always asking me to do her tasks for her. As in, I’ll be doing my own and she will ask me to do quite a bit of things that are hers or what she is dealing with, particularly ones where she has to leave the desk. Even asking me to fetch her printing for her. She also asks me to do a lot of the manual things.
3. She asks me to make phone calls to people that she has been dealing with, and then they start asking me questions that I don’t know, as she knows these answers as she has been dealing with it
4. she keeps saying to me ‘make sure you do this’ when I already was doing it. It’s things I know to do. I know it sounds like she’s being helpful but it’s coming across now that she doesn’t trust me.
5. I feel like occasionally she is being a bit condescending towards me.
6. And this is the one that is annoying me the most at the moment, a client will come into the office and ask me a question and before I have chance to speak or when I start speaking, she starts answering for me

aibu? I do my job properly and have had very good feedback from my line manager so it’s not that I’m doing things wrong

Talk to your line manager about it. That way you can say 'manager wants me to prioritise this today'.

With the asking you to fetch things, I would say 'I'm just in the middle of something but I'll get it when I'm done'. She can go herself if she wants it right away!

Ask your manager what their expectations are for you. You're the apprentice, so your colleague could just be assuming it IS your job to fetch and carry for them. In many trades/jobs it would be.

Has your manager asked the colleague to 'keep an eye on you' or 'bring you on' and she's overdoing it a bit for your liking? Our apprentices are 'pushed' quite a bit by experienced colleagues/ managers and some are better at it than others, but you'll probably always have to deal with people who get on your tits at work. I'd avoid running to the printer for her though, just smile sweetly and tell her you're busy rn, then 'forget' 🤭