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My coworker who likes to push his work to other people emailed my supervisor with me as CC. Email goes like this:

Hi Team Lead,

Here’s the task assignment for tomorrow.

A. WORK WORK WORK - assigned to Shiniboi

B. ANOTHER WORK - assigned to Shiniboi

C. Another work - assigned to Coworker2.

I wasn't aware that he will be out tomorrow. I emailed him that I was not aware and that next time as a courtesy he should inform me first given that I am the one doing his work. He did not respond. Wow, seen zoned.

I am really annoyed at this. I planned to calmly talk to my supervisor regarding this. Furthermore, the supervisor is friends with this person and both of us are not yet regular/permanent at work. I just hope that my supervisor would see where I am coming from.

How about you guys? Is it correct to ask for a little courtesy? I feel disrespected/slighted.

The problem with this whole thing is you are relying on a notion of courtesy, rather than policy and procedure. Different people will have different understanding about what is courteous.

You seem to have been informed quite late that your workload will increase. It is unclear to me what impact that will have on you, and what the expectations are from management.

Rather than complain, or speak with the supervisor, regarding the actions of the coworker, you should try to establish a proper policy regarding this. This would include how much notice to teammates would be given, who can allocate work, and what type of work is higher priority. Obviously when discussing with your supervisor, you should be prepared to highlight specific problems with how things are currently done.

Then should the coworker breach this policy, then you have a bit more than "I feel disrespected" to go to your supervisor with.

How about you guys? Is it correct to ask for a little courtesy? I feel disrespected/slighted.

Seems a bit unprofessional and strange to me that your coworker approached the situation the way they did.

The exception would be that somehow you missed the meeting/email where such endorsement would happen, perhaps an email you forgot to read or something. It would be worth to double check if this didn't happen so you don't misinterpret the situation.

Anyways, assuming that this was never mentioned to you, I suggest you reply back to the ones involved in the thread, as to ask for clarification and (politely) get your message across that you would like to be consulted first in future incidents. Something on the lines of:

Hello everybody.

I'm afraid that I was not aware that Joe would not be working tomorrow, nor that we had to take over his tasks for that day. For future situations like this, please it would help me to be informed beforehand so I can prepare myself.

Furthermore, given that now we have new tasks, I would like to ask how should we handle the tasks we had already? Should we give these new tasks priority over the others?

Thanks, Shinobi.

If, after this, similar situations happen again I would consider talking this with your coworker and supervisor directly (but professionally). Consider if, eventually, raising it with your manager is the only solution left.

not yet regular/permanent at work

Assuming you want to be permanent, you don't rock the boat too much. You have already emailed him with your concerns.

But you should have (still can) emailed the supervisor and ask for confirmation and give any reasons that you wouldn't be able to do the task such as time or location if there are any. If you don't have any reasons, you shouldn't let it upset you visibly. You're trying to create a good impression, concentrate on that.