Anna White writes: “In 2022, my institution entered a season where we lost, or were not able to immediately fill, the equivalent of six full-time instruction librarian positions. Our instruction program met to discuss how we would handle instruction requests in the coming year. The outcome of that conversation was that we all—supervisors included—agreed that we could say ‘no’ to an instruction session for a variety of reasons. Most members of the group also admitted that they rarely or never say no to instruction even when they think they should, and that conversation led me to these questions.