How do I tell my boss?

@caretwo Someone has posted this list here before (maybe it was you), it's very interesting. My current boss mentioned the same items (almost literally) in my performance review. He said he likes working with me because I never get him into trouble and I make him no work...

But now they're asking me to have more customer contact (although that's not even in my job description). For example: "As a reward, we'll send you all-expenses-paid to this great conference." I fell for this ruse several times at my previous employer, they always add more and more work to the trip: Write reports, work at a booth, talk to customers, give presentations (I refused the latter outright). It's not a reward from my point of view, and I'm supposed to be grateful for this "perk".

Once I read a report from last year's conference and thought, that topic sounds very interesting. When I reached the end of the page I realized, not only had I attended this session, but I had written this report… I didn't remember. :-/ It's scary to think that I was so exhausted that what I learned and did there did not stick to my brain...

I would generally not assume that anyone will understand that.

Up to now I have only met 1 person on a managerial level who knew what AS is, but that was a huge and temporary exception.

I don't know what the issue is that you refer to and what options you have. I try to distract my boss by pointing out other things that I am better at, I propose workarounds or I volunteer to take on "boring" tasks instead (similar to @Haythml, I trained new hires in technical matters), so I'm doing something useful and clearly have no time for anything else.

I agree with @some_one, and (unless you are talking to, say, the official "diversity representative") I would not mention the word AS at all. As an experiment, I explained AS to a priest once, with examples and all, and her attitude was practically, 'well, I don't really know, but, just don't be like that, because nobody else is.' It's too alien to understand, just focus on aspects that they can understand, and skip the details.

@caretwo Someone has posted this list here before (maybe it was you), it's very interesting. My current boss mentioned the same items (almost literally) in my performance review. He said he likes working with me because I never get him into trouble and I make him no work...

But now they're asking me to have more customer contact (although that's not even in my job description). For example: "As a reward, we'll send you all-expenses-paid to this great conference." I fell for this ruse several times at my previous employer, they always add more and more work to the trip: Write reports, work at a booth, talk to customers, give presentations (I refused the latter outright). It's not a reward from my point of view, and I'm supposed to be grateful for this "perk".

Once I read a report from last year's conference and thought, that topic sounds very interesting. When I reached the end of the page I realized, not only had I attended this session, but I had written this report… I didn't remember. :-/ It's scary to think that I was so exhausted that what I learned and did there did not stick to my brain...

I would generally not assume that anyone will understand that.

Up to now I have only met 1 person on a managerial level who knew what AS is, but that was a huge and temporary exception.

I don't know what the issue is that you refer to and what options you have. I try to distract my boss by pointing out other things that I am better at, I propose workarounds or I volunteer to take on "boring" tasks instead (similar to @Haythml, I trained new hires in technical matters), so I'm doing something useful and clearly have no time for anything else.

I agree with @some_one, and (unless you are talking to, say, the official "diversity representative") I would not mention the word AS at all. As an experiment, I explained AS to a priest once, with examples and all, and her attitude was practically, 'well, I don't really know, but, just don't be like that, because nobody else is.' It's too alien to understand, just focus on aspects that they can understand, and skip the details.