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I once worked with a person at the same level as I am, who keeps giving me his work and telling me to finish it just because he was older than me. He was not a manager or anything. He was just incompetent and trying to clean it up by giving me the job. After much help I had to say please do your own job so I can do mine. It s good to help people but there should be a limit to it.

People work for compensation. No one wants to work for free. Compensate them correctly, they'll never says it's not my job.

Instead of saying, “That’s not my job”, my response is usually . . . I could do that but that would be a disservice to my employer who has commissioned my services in my specific area of expertise. Perhaps it would be best if we let the people who are trained and paid to do this . . . let them do their job. Or the abbreviated version, “If I do your job, once of us is unnecessary.”

It could be done once and twice but not every time. Each person needs to do his own job (including the manager). Taking over the task of other persons each and every time , is a sign of very toxic work culture

I think that's good advice in moderation. Your colleagues will usually appreciate your flexibility and willingness to go above and beyond when needed, but there's a point at which it becomes abusive and shouldn't be tolerated. If you're a lawyer pitching in and doing secretarial work while the secretary is out, you're a team player. If you're a lawyer being given secretarial work because they don't want to hire a secretary, you're being taken advantage of.

I respectfully disagree, as each person has it’s own responsibility. If you manage your team properly and correctly assess their knowledge and time, then you can once show them how things are done. Otherwise if you do it yourself every time - it will be expected of you. And if you refuse to do it after you’ve done it several times -people will see you at fault. And what’s more no one will care how much time it’s taken from you and that you have your own job to do plus this. Remember, that you are not getting paid to do these time-consuming additional tasks.

I disagree. People easilly get use to things you do for them. If you offer help once, twice, it can easilly become your work and it is that much harder to change their oppinion latter down the road. Secondly, if you do not have time for that and taking from your personal time for nothing in return, that is not healty and definitly not worth it. Thirdly, others can claim your work/knowledge as their on and present themself as better candidate for raise etc if nobody´s watching. That is just not fair. If you are hired for some work, your goal is to do your best in the assigned time in it. Anything above that is not compensated is not a responsibility, but your own good will. I have seen companies guilt tripping its employees into doing the above, mostly to their onw detriment and not reciprocated by the company. Sadly, the nicest people going above and beyond often gets treated the worst (not getting promotion, raises, etc.). So not arrogance or lazyness, but boundaries. Help if you have free time in your work day or you want to help that person or if you know they did or would do the same for you, but do not feel guilty not to. I learned it the hard way :)

I respectfully disagree. The complete opposite is true - it is the lack of laziness and good intentions that cause tremendous burnout among those who are most competent and selfless. We are all hired for specific strengths and responsibilities - otherwise, what’s the point of another position and budget line? Being a “team” in no way implies picking up other people’s “slack” and stressing yourself out. Boundaries are healthy and necessary. Teamwork comes from a compilation of each person’s contributions, not a “catch all / safety net” for those that can’t complete their work/meet expectations.

I don’t agree, because the real lazy employees will lay back even more while these hard workers are busting their asses. If it’s not on your employee agenda, then don’t do the extra work smh There's companies where these immigrants are employees, who begin at 6:30am and play around until the employer arrives, these poor excuse of employers have canastas but never says anything, they must enjoy paying their employees to play around, unfortunately the hard working employees have extreme difficulty concentrating because those same employees who are loud, playing around and playing their music loudly from their country get away with all that cause off those dumb dumb employers. Damn shame They have to be doing more that just playing around for the employers not doing anything about that behavior. That's not a company, that's a zoo.