I had a boss who did this exact thing to me at, ah, a large semiconductor company who shall remain nameless. I told him I wanted to transfer to a different group, he wrote a letter to the new group manager and cr@pped all over me.
Had the same experience with our marketing department in the early 90’s. Engineering would send emails to the marketing dept. secretary, she’d print them out and distribute them to the marketing weenies, who’d scribble a reply and give them back to the secretary. I had a marketeer tell me that he didn’t think this “email thing” would last.
Sounds better than our national choices this November.