[chrishajer]

Wow – so many red flags:

1. “Wouldn’t it be easy to…” (the hidden cost of change)
2. “This shouldn’t take long” (artificial time frame)
3. “Can you make this small change real quick?” (“small” and “quick”)
4. “Before you finish X, could you do Y?” (the mental costs of interruption)
5. “Let’s push this today” (artificial scope)

Not all apply here: I just cut-n-pasted the whole thing. I’d say 3 out of 5 is not bad though…