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Originally Posted by legion
If that is acceptable, I take on the work. If it is not acceptable, I ask him to find someone else.
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You have an opportunity to say no? Sweet deal!
At my work, it is nothing to be completely blindsided by a project that can take days on end of my time. My favorite is when I get urgent emails about a "last minute" campaign, only to follow the email trail and see that it had been planned 4-6 weeks ago. We just find a way to make it work, but always make a point of explaining what the consequences are, ie which other projects are falling aside in the meantime.
Downside is that by being too accomodating, it's easy to set unrealistic expecations. People will just assume you'll find a way to ram a project through, and will get themselves painted into a corner where the only way to make things work is by calling folks in from vacations, etc. I'm not as accomodating then.