Bingo. 90% of the things I broke my back over because “it was an emergency” got scraped or abandoned a week later. And my ex-employer was wondering why our team turnover was through the roof.
I had an old boss that I developed a rule of 3 for. He like to change priorities constantly because that was "agile". So I just knew that until he asked for something the 3rd time, I would say "yes" and let it die on the vine. If he did ask 3 times, then it was probably going to actually stay a priority.
