Sexual Bias?

I have a friend that words in a company where she needs other people to get her job done, as I think many people who work these days do, right?

Anywho...

My friend had this project in which she was being evaluated on because it was A big project she was supervising in her company and because of that she really knew it was something she should worry about.

The first step of the project depended upon ONE PERSON, and ONE PERSON ONLY, and after one month waiting for something that should be ready in ONE WEEK, and asking, and asking and asking and ... for it. My friend sent yet another e-mail enquiring about an estimate of when that part of the project would be ready and (of course) she copied her boss. She got a reply that by the end of that day she would get all that part of the project delivered to her.

Relieved but not believing that she really would get the job done she kept on going with her day. After a while her boss came in to her office and enquired her if the e-mail she had sent earlier that day with COMPLAINS was about the job in question.

ANYONE ELSE IS AS IN SHOCK AS MY FRIEND WAS WHEN SHE HEARD THE WORD: COMPLAIN?!

Let’s review the case?

My friend is a WOMAN supervising the JOB of a MAN.
She sent a VERY polite e-mail, after MANY others, solely doing a follow up on a job that should have been done in a week and took more than a month. She summed in that e-mail how that delay was affecting the project as a whole and she copied her boss mailing to cover all her basis (and her ass).

Her BIG surprise!

Her BOSS said that she send an e-mail complaining about the job. LOL! Is that a male thing, or an age thing? OR JUST AN IRRESPONSABLE THING?