How do I serve people whose demands are impossible to meet?

You show up. You answer the calls, you solve what can be solved, you serve the people in front of you. And still the pile grows. More requests than hours. More expectations than any team could meet. This is not your team failing. This is the shape of the work itself. No one signed up to satisfy every constituent's full wish. Your team signed up to do the part that is yours, well, one piece at a time. The gap between what people want and what you can give is not yours to close by working harder. It closes, if at all, by someone else's choice — not yours. If the weight of this has started to feel like more than tiredness — if it sits on you every night — talk to someone outside the work too, not only your team. That is not weakness. That is sense.