my boss gets an email every time i create a new employee in our system. every time, without fail, that the new employee has an uncommon name (usually international students), he will call me into his office just to ask me:

'is this person a man or a woman?'

i hate this question. so much. why--ever, ever, ever, ever x1000--would he need to know this? i will usually mumble which one it is and politely huff off.

maybe from now on i should say, 'i don't know, does it matter?'

most likely, he will NEVER have any kind of personal interaction with these students, he just sees their names on the screen. but still, he just can't be comfortable until he knows if some arbitrary person under him that he will never meet in person has a vagina or penis so he can make sure to treat them accordingly.