You should have known

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Maja is overloaded but calmly agrees to another task. Samuel cannot see the tension that feels obvious to her.

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Maja, can you add the copy for this presentation too?

Sure.

Surely he can see I’m already overloaded.

She agreed. Great.

And just one more thing…

Seriously? How much more am I supposed to take on?

If I’d known you were overloaded…

I thought it was obvious.

I saw agreement.

I felt an alarm.

Maja feels her overload so strongly that it seems visible to other people too. Samuel sees a calm face and hears agreement, so he assumes another task is manageable. Both overestimate how much someone else can know about an internal state without being told. Do not expect strain to be obvious. Name the workload, show its consequences and decide together what to postpone before accepting another task.