Its because I am a girl, isn't it?

I have worked at a company coming on six years. Big title. Nice salary. The company isn't much to look at - it's only made up of a few folks, but after the recent exit of an employee I have been assigned to some of the mundane tasks once assigned to her.

We have a relatively new employee that the boss hired. He met the kid at a gym. Felt he had potential and offered him a sales position.

In my world - the new guy gets the crap. Earn your keep.

But - I have recently been assigned to filing and placing mailing labels on envelopes and making copies - putting shipping labels on outgoing parcels. These jobs take me away from the thing that I do. Sell.

When doing these tasks, I am away from my desk. Away from a phone.

Because we are also commissioned some of the calls may be a potential sale. Rule is, if it is not a specific customer and they don't ask for you, it's fair game. So - it's the luck of the draw sometimes. There may be a valuable "freebie" calling in. I have already lost a majority of sales as I have to compete with answering the phone. Let's see who can answer it first kinda thing.

Not once has the man that I have worked for since the inception of the company asked "The New Guy" to do any of the above mentioned tasks. I have also been tasked with double checking his paperwork because he tends to make errors.

Boss Man likens him to a child. Says he needs to be tended to.

I say - this is a job. I have a kid and I am not raising one at work. He's a man - apparently capable of earning his pilot license - but he can't do filing?!?

Is it because I am a girl? Is it because the tasks I speak of are considered "secretarial"?

I will say this. The more I am as asked to do the 'secretarial' things - the more I seethe.

Would it be proper to say something? Or is this whining?

Hell, Boss Man takes out the trash to the dumpster (something I think New Guy should do).-

Maybe I am overreacting?

Its because I am a girl, isn't it?