[stadium]

> Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don’t have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway?

"When is this needed" is a great alternative to a hard "no". It opens up a conversation about priorities. And lets you transparent about what needs to get delayed so that this new priority can be worked. It's a perfectly reasonable conversation to have, and helps you keep healthy boundaries.

[vmception]

“Yesterday”

Followed by a blog post about why the deadline of yesterday doesn't need an explanation

[stadium]

This reminds me of a former director who liked to say to some of our partner teams, "poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.". She was good at putting a buffer in between IC's on our team and partner teams so we could focus more on planned work.

The "yesterday" need-by date maybe works the first time. Beyond that, if that's really the company culture or management style, I'd be quietly looking for a new job. Same category as Friday afternoon requests for things due Monday morning.