I am always suspicious about people who tell me they are overworked in their jobs. It usually means that they either can’t organize their jobs or their try to make themselves irreplaceable by sucking up every bit of work and responsibility they can lay their hands on.

The motivation is fear - fear of being replaceable and not important. But instead of being a useful coworker these people become bottlenecks, because they turn into control freaks.

And nobody like bottlenecks - not matter how ‘important’ or overworked they are …