Many years ago, when I was working as a contract tech writer, I had a project manager do his very best to try and fob off most of his job onto me. You know, the guy from outside the company who was spending all the time he wasn't spending writing and editing talking to engineers to make sure he was actually understanding the texts he was working on properly so that his edits weren't changing important meaning, and sure as heck did not have the time to try and nudge people who he had no actual authority over into doing things they needed to.
Fortunately, being a contract worker I could just ignore most of what he implied or outright told me to do and get my actual work done.