<human>: She works as academic coordinator (sortof a cross between an office manager, student liaison and assistant to the department head) at a college and the department-head she reports to has taken a medical leave, and indicated that he doesn't plan to return to the role. Another level of bureaucracy up (or over) was responsible for choosing his replacement and chose to promote a professor that is pretty much universally disliked (in the departmentat least, 90% of the time every time).

He's had confrontations with her before about class schedules (that she explained to him she wasn't responsible for), and a few other minor things mostly involving misunderstanding of her role there.

Now that he's been made interim dept. head (which he doesn't start until later this month), he seems to think that because she reports to him, that she's his personal assistant, which her job description contradicts, and her day-to-day responsibilities won't always allow for.

She was summoned to HR because the future dept. head raised concerns about her ability to do her job (again he's not in the position yet, and she's been doing her job well and been promoted for 6 years). They almost seemed to be asking her if she'd like to change departments or look for a new job on campus.

I've told her to start recording the requests he's making by confirming them through email, so that there's a record since some of his requests feel a little like traps to get her in trouble. Any more advice for this kind of situation.

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<bot>: My wife's boss was just replaced by someone who seem's intent on getting her fired before he's even taken over the position.