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title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Learn To Say No"
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date = 2019-07-18
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tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "personal", "say no"]
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Sometimes, you'll have to say no: No, I can't do it; no, it can't be made in
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this time; no, I don't feel capable of doing this; no, I don't feel
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comfortable writing this.
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Saying no doesn't mean you won't do it. Once I had to say to our CTO: "Ok,
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I'll do it, but I want to note that I don't agree with what we are doing." In
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the end, the app was barred exactly because the thing we were doing.
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Being explicit about what you don't feel is a good point may not be what some
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higher ups are expecting. The fact that you don't approve but will do it
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anyway may be something that can either show that your not simply a drone or,
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unfortunately, label you as a "troublemaker". Honestly, if you feel it threw
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you in the former, you should start looking for a new place to work. If you
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said you won't be comfortable and still _did the work_, and they had to label
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you something, then this place doesn't respect you as a person.
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