Our team keeps taking on urgent requests from other departments and we all hate it but no one wants to be the person who says no because it makes you look uncooperative. We've doubled our workload in six months with stuff that isn't even our core responsibility and our actual projects are suffering but somehow we keep agreeing to more.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your team keeps saying yes to extra work nobody wants because no one dares to say no.
“Where Are You with Public Safety — Fire & Rescue?”
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