> what you wanted probably wasn't on this quarter's OKRs so it would be an uphill battle to get them to do it Everywhere I've ever worked - OKRs or DPMs or Goa

> what you wanted probably wasn't on this quarter's OKRs so it would be an uphill battle to get them to do it Everywhere I've ever worked - OKRs or DPMs or Goals or whatever you want to call them or not - I've had a set of work that's assigned to me via JIRA tickets or Bugzilla tickets or some kind of ticket tracking system, and I've also had a constant deluge of co-workers asking for my help with something or other. The longer I work there, the greater the deluge of both requests for help and volume of work assigned. Every day I've ever come into work in my life (besides the one-two month "honeymoon period" when I start a new job), I have to decide between ignoring my coworkers pleas for help or slipping the deadlines on the individual tasks assigned to me. Over the course of the past three decades, I've tried both ways - first, focusing on my assigned tasks and second, dropping everything every time I get a request for help. I've found that, overall, the second way works best. I have to constantly apologize for constantly missing deadlines, but if I keep turning away coworkers, not being enough of a "team player" shows up as a nastier mark in my performance reviews than always being behind on tasks.