Saying no

Imagine you are driving a car you helped building...in fact you did a lot to improve it...and still you are fairly convinced that it could drive many more miles...and your feel that your job is not done yet with this vehicle...just improving it would extend it's life quite significantly. 

And this vehicle caries several people....a department or so.

Than you get an offer...to jump to a new shiny tandem bicycle that one day could become a four wheel vehicle perhaps...and you are asked to be an architect for a now bicycle and take the sword up and fight to transform this bicycle into a car.

...but by some reason you don't feel the urge...your inner voice tells you that you cannot ride two vehicles at once...and there are more things to achieve here...nothing shiny though...but being spacious it could bring several people with you... 

...than you say no ...and a world collapses... people take this personally because you were expected to take this role...they were counting on you...although nobody mentioned this ... and suddenly you are excluded from the bicycle project...and now you are puzzled...what just happened...and you see people around you consider this as a not an appropriate attitude....and probably they are right.

Maybe saying no is not so well accepted...if it was at all? 

When you are an employee can you...should you say no to things like assignments? I mean when there is an option to say no, of course.

I'll leave you with this,

Happy coding.