My Top #1 Priorities

I just had a departmental meeting where, during the round table discussion, I requested that my boss not hand me any more "Top #1 Priorities" for at least a week. I have way too many "Top #1 Priorities" on my plate as it is and I'm losing ground on what should actually be a priority according to my job description. A week should be good, I told him, because I'm at least a week behind. He agreed, fortunately.

Unfortunately, however, before the meeting was over he'd requested 3 more items to be my "Top #1 priorities."

And apparently, "No!" is not an appropriate response.

Ugh --really starting to hate it here. Here's hoping I can do some cartwheels about a different job. And soon.