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this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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Don't argue. No is a complete sentence. Talk to your boss about it if your coworkers have a problem with "no." Perhaps express mild interest with appropriate additional compensation?
If you don't enforce your boundaries, then no one will.
This is great, sometimes you need to have those solid, clear boundaries.
If you want to be somewhat “diplomatic,” what I’ll do is give a response depending from whom it comes from.
Not my boss: “please check with my boss to see if he wants me to drop anything to help you.”
my boss: “I’m doing x, y, and z. Which do you want me to drop so I can do this new task?”
This is a much better response. In business you have to speak business-speak. This is the business-speak way of saying no.
Double plus good talking to your boss. One of my people had this exact same thing happen to her. I went to the other dude and told him any requests for my people to do work outside my department had to come though me, end of story.
Nobody pulls that shit on my people.