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by angrymouse 3607 days ago
Lots of good advice here about pushing back. Be sure to do it in your own voice of course and no need for a revolution. It may be best to focus on small things and grow from there

In that vein, the BBC used to vet new hires (in an assessment) around how they would react to a colleague who kept asking for help on similar things but refused to learn how to do it themselves.

No idea if they still do this but worth thinking if you are enabling your colleagues to just dump it on you.

Ask yourself, do you completely take over? Have you tried getting them to do it by talking them through but not hands on solving it for them?

Often quicker a couple of times to just take over but long term they'll be reliant on you and you'll be stuck helping them solve that problem time after time.

Harder to do that with tasks from a manager or similar, but I've found it helps to talk through what you'd have to do, what you'd have to drop and problems you see coming. You'll probably still have to do it but you can make explicit what will move down your pecking order.