If you’re being asked to do things at work by colleagues that aren’t your manager that either you don’t have capacity to do because you’ve got too much to do,
or they’re annoying hassley tasks that aren’t necessarily anyone in particular’s role,
or it’s people just trying it on delegating fiddly aspects of things that they don’t want to do where it’s not clear whose responsibility it is (perhaps because it’s adminy bits of a shared project) or if people are picking and choosing what they do and don’t want to do for their own motives, should you:
Reply to emails saying No, or sorry I’d love to but don’t have capacity right now (or similar)
Or just not reply at all?
I’ve noticed some people just don’t reply to some emails. But that’s rude. Otoh saying no seems to be a red rag to a bull sometimes and seems to stir things up even more and things escalate.
What do you think?
Not sure voting is really appropriate for this but
Yes you ABU not replying
you are NOT BU not replying