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  • All this is good advice for managing pressure that's coming your way, but it's also well worth remembering that quite often pressure that people are trying to apply isn't yours to accept. It's good to be someone who takes ownership of a problem, but this can still be overdone, and we all have to be slopey-shouldered once in a while.

    Perhaps the fundamental point is that your employer is the business, not a particular manager within that business. The business decides how much it is prepared to spend on IT, and accepts this sets a certain level of service. In short, some things will always have to be dropped. Requests for your services may be hugely important to the person requesting, but if they're not important enough to the business to hit your priority list, that's the business's problem, not yours. Obviously, you have to communicate this back to the requester, but you needn't accept the stress of being squeezed between what someone wants and what the business is prepared to pay for.

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