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Seems you can recognize the smell of unnecessary work!

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>Don't tell my boss this, but I have noticed it too.

Likely, he/she uses this more than you do. It's standard in management, and I've heard some managers listing it as the key to furthering your career. You'll always be given more stuff than you can handle. So you learn not to do all of it.

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” -- Douglas Adams

Protip : Wait even a little bit after it's too late and you might not even have anything to do at all.

What if you are being yelled at/under pressure?

If I may explain a joke, if you are being yelled at then you are not fired yet, so you must procrastinate a bit more until you can not do anything at all.

Oh, I thought it referred to being dead, not fired. Whoops.

That would do too. In fact, only the OP can tell the difference.

The GP was referring to being fired.

Indeed. And think about the amount of damage accomplished by those people who do everything that's asked of them.