Setting a boundary with a coworker who keeps handing you their work
A colleague routinely forwards you tasks that belong to their team, and you keep absorbing them.
Strategy
Fix the routing, not the relationship. Name the pattern once, say what you will still do, and send the work to whoever actually owns it.
How this one opens
Something I want to sort out with you.
This is the first line of the full script for this exact situation.
What usually happens next
Most likely: "it's just faster to send it to you"
One thing not to say
This isn't my job
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