If you don't do them, will just the tasks be taken away from you? Or your job? (In which case bleah). Is it worth taking a task at a time and seeing if anything bad happens if it's not done? Back before I "retired" from management, I used to spend a lot of time agonising over which of the excessive demands made on me actually needed to be done, in order to reclaim some small part of each day for something less mind-numbingly tedious. It was surprising how many "I/We need..." tasks turned out to disappear without trace if lobbed on the "pending" pile...