I don't think that's how it works

If you've ever been any sort of boss, manager, or department head, you're probably familiar with the concept of delegating work (If this is a foreign concept to you, delegating is when you have too much work to do so you assign some of your tasks to an underling). Delegating work is a pretty useful system and one of the perks of being in charge. It is, however, an exclusively 1 to 1 system. Yet Shoes seems to think it is acceptable to delegate on someone else's behalf.

The story goes like this. We have new summer help arriving. They will be assigned to different departments. One will be working for Spoof. Yet in the email regarding the new staff, Shoes assigned Opie to train the new guy. Opie who, technically, works for Spoof. Spoof was, let's just say, less than pleased. Confronted with this, Shoes would only say "sometimes we have to delegate our tasks." We would like to know what gives Shoes the right to act on Spoof's behalf.

To Shoes, all we can say is: