<prompt> Human: Our account manager is retiring in 1.5 years from now and I am supposed to be her replacement. However another lady broke her leg at the beginning of the year and I was tasked with taking on half of her job. She returned to work but never took back her half of the job. My boss seems indifferent about this. I recently got a 10k per year raise. Even so I feel am not even close to what level I should be at in terms of replacing our account manager. I just dont have the time to learn it all. How can I express this to my boss without seeming as complaining. Im am pretty sure that he will just tell me to talk it out with my co-worker that was injured, however she doesnt care at all and seems content with just coasting along. My boss has always been the type to say, Dont come to me with problems, give me solutions. I dont see a solution besides hiring another person or working 10 hour days for the rest of my life.  <response>: It seems like the problem is that you dont have enough time to learn the account manager duties. Go to your boss with a solution that already skips past go talk to your co-worker and hope she listens to someone who has no authority over her. Something like I need X, Y, Z duties to be completed by Co-Worker so that I have more time to learn account manager duties. I have tried to discuss this with her, and it hasnt worked. I want to set up a meeting with you, her, boss, her supervisor if that is someone else and establish clear expectations for when she will start doing these things again. Here is my plan for that, do you have any tweaks youd like to make to whenwherehowwho is responsible for these tasks? If your boss wont engage, or doesnt like that, suggest hiring a new person, or say flat out that you wont be able to take over the account manager duties on schedule. If your boss has the expectation that you will do it all, and you dont feel like that is possible, start looking for new work. You dont want to work for someone like that anyway. 