[Discussion topic] Should you help colleagues with problems that are not within your scope of responsibility out of good intentions at work?

foreword

The workplace is like a battlefield. In the workplace, there is often a chaotic existence where good intentions become obligations instead. We have to be a good person, and colleagues have to guard against some bad people.
Don't do good because it's small, don't do evil because it's small

Discussion within the community

Let's take a look at the answers from the friends in the community:

Summary of discussions within the community

After discussing for a long time, there was not even a single objection, which shows that everyone agrees that you should not help casually, and do not be a bad person, especially the character of the person who asks you to help.

What do you think, you can leave your thoughts in the comment area.

Master's answer

There is one question you will definitely know:
You saw an old lady who fell down on the way to work. Well, I'll give you a scolding.
You were late for work because of this theory, and your wages were deducted.

Really thankless.

Since the colleague is in charge, it is his job, and the company pays the colleague to do the work.
With your help, there are four endings:

• You helped your colleagues do a good job, but you didn't do your own tasks or affected the progress: This shows that you can't distinguish between priorities and priorities.
• You have done a good job for your colleagues, but your own tasks are not affected: this shows that your tasks are not saturated
• You didn't do a good job helping your colleagues, and at the same time your own tasks were affected, it would be fine if you weren't fired.
• You didn't do a good job helping your colleagues, but your own mission was not affected: you deliberately sabotaged other people's missions, did you go undercover?

So if you help your colleagues to complete tasks, it is almost a thankless and risky thing. Why do you want to help your colleagues?

If the colleague encounters a problem, won't he help?

No, you have to pay attention to the process in everything, let him report to the top, and let his department boss find your department boss to coordinate you to help in the past, this is okay.

Of course, if the personal relationship is relatively good, and it is a trivial matter, it doesn't matter if you agree to it once or twice. The point is, sometimes it is difficult to assess whether something is really a small thing, and sometimes it seems small, but it may be related to more important things.

and:

In the workplace, a nice guy doesn't mean a nice guy. We often see such a person at work. He is easy-going, never offends others, and never rejects others. He is always free to ask for help, and he is very popular. He seems to be a good friend with everyone.

But if it comes to promotion or interests, ta will often not be ranked first, and will always be ranked last.

There is also a kind of warm-hearted colleague, who is diligent to customers, responsive to customers' requests, conscientious to superiors, and always agrees to the tasks assigned to him. He is always busy and works long hours every day, but his performance has never been good.

how to say no gracefully

The first situation: You are not responsible for what the other party asks you to do, but you have improved your ability, then you can consider helping, and at the same time divide the rights and responsibilities.

For example, the other party asks you to do a project, and you really want to participate in this project, but you have never had the opportunity. After participating, your own ability may be greatly improved, so you can say:

[I am happy to participate and learn from you about the implementation of this project, but I do not have similar experience and cannot take on more responsibilities. Learning from scratch may also affect some of my current work progress, so I want to If you participate, you need to take the lead, and I will help you with some auxiliary work]

The second situation: You have no responsibility for what the other party entrusts you to do, and you have nothing to gain from doing it, so you can explicitly refuse.

For example [it’s not that I won’t help you, look at the XXX project I’m in charge of recently, it’s really difficult to deal with, I stayed up until 12 o’clock last night, I feel like I’m on the verge of cusi every day, I’m getting a bit tinnitus when I get angry, I’m planning to go to the hospital Look, I don’t even have the nerve to ask the leader for leave, why don’t you ask other people, and I’ll definitely help you when you’re not busy next time]

Summarize

Don't try to impress your colleagues with the image of a good guy. The resources in the company are limited, and the capable ones are superior. There has never been wishful thinking of "I am good enough to you, so you should let me and keep the benefits for me".