How to Push Back on a Boss Who Always Says Yes

The Difficult Boss Podcast with Fexingo: Managing Up, Toxic Managers, and Workplace Survival · Aug 27, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Lucas and Luna tackle a tricky workplace dynamic: the boss who agrees to everything, overcommits the team, and then scrambles when deadlines slip. In Episode 172 of The Difficult Boss Podcast, they unpack why 'yes' can be more damaging than an outright 'no,' and how to reframe pushback as prioritisation. They break down a real scenario from a mid-sized SaaS firm where a sales leader kept piling on client requests, and the engineering manager finally turned the conversation from 'we can't' to 'here's what we can do if we drop something else.&#x27…