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When teams habitually overcommit rather than set boundaries

My team keeps saying yes to requests from other departments even when we're already overcommitted, and then we work late and stress out to deliver everything instead of having honest conversations about capacity and priorities. I'm the senior engineer but I'm doing it too, and I can see how we're training the rest of the organization to expect us to absorb unlimited work without pushback.

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Your team keeps saying yes to everything instead of admitting you're already stretched too thin.

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