It becomes my job when someone asks... until that moment, I have no responsibility for their outcome.
I would argue that generalized - it doesn't become your job until you choose to make it your job.
In some cases (as you've cited above, like having competing requests/obligations) that's when you choose to accept the request. In other cases, perhaps when you've chosen to accept that role for someone - where their every wish is but your command. Leading toward the parenting example above - where it is your job as long as you are being that parent regardless of the asking. But in every case, there is a decision point where you accept the responsibility - and that choice happens internally rather than at someone else's whim, no?
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Date: 2004-04-16 10:09 pm (UTC)I would argue that generalized - it doesn't become your job until you choose to make it your job.
In some cases (as you've cited above, like having competing requests/obligations) that's when you choose to accept the request. In other cases, perhaps when you've chosen to accept that role for someone - where their every wish is but your command. Leading toward the parenting example above - where it is your job as long as you are being that parent regardless of the asking. But in every case, there is a decision point where you accept the responsibility - and that choice happens internally rather than at someone else's whim, no?