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From time to time, everyone gets asked to do things. work.

From time to time, everyone gets asked to do things they weren't explicitly hired to do.

You know, it's that bullet point in the job description that says perform other duties has assigned.

The problem is women often get more of these other duties and they tend to be

thankless dead-end tasks.

Here's what we heard from some of you.

Well we had a meeting where we were talking about some samples that needed to be analyzed,

and they just automatically asked me if I would submit the samples to be analyzed. I'm like that's not my job and you

know they just kind of looked at me funny as if well you know you can do it I'm like well

I'm not going to you know it's not my job I've never seen

taking notes or calling you know information and putting it into a bite-sized pieces as being what makes the decision.

You know, it's the content of the notes that makes the decision.

And so I really have always wanted to be more in the content mix and less in the administrative mix but

darn if I don't find myself there over and over again. As soon as I came on here I

realized pretty quickly that I was also going to be expected to do all the jobs

that no one else wanted to do.

Watering plan, grocery shopping for the office, filling the coffee pot, and I'm a little unsure how to handle it because I don't

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