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I hear you, it's frustrating. Keep pushing through emails and escalate if needed, sometimes persistence pays off.

I was in a similar issue when I was in TCS. I can help you over come this challenge If you really want a release from your current project -

1. Gradually start Decreasing yoyr efforts/ working hours

2. start taking long lunch and coffee breaks

3. If you’re in office and your manager(from whom you asked for release) sits near by you, let him see from your actions that you’re not interested in working there anymore.

• Do timepass Go to other friends cubicle/ sit on the table as if it was your collg canteen
• Talk shit with team members
• crack jokes

4. frequently drop mails to your manager asking for an update on your release with increasing count in Subject Line - Gentle Reminder 1/2/3 .. like that

5. stop giving desirable answers in team meetings. Make it look like you’re not serious about work .

6. make a mess of the work they’re aasigning to you, but not at the code level.
   I mean at Excel sheet level. Show your carelessness.

7. The person who assigns you the task ( possibly Lead), make it very clear to him that the tasks you’re getting you’re not interested in working on those anymore.

He might himself become hesitant and would stop loading up with work.

8. Eventually stop replying to the people who pings you to look into something/ task .

This might lead to a poor rating of yours but you need a release ryt? If all this doesn’t works,

9. Eventually tell your lead ( when next time he pings you for some work), that apologies but I’m not working on this task anymore.

10. Last, leave the teams groups and stop attending the daily meetings.

PS: All this requires lots of guts and daring, so If you’re a soft hearted/ sheep mentality person, do not try this.
This would also lead to poor performance ratings as well.

Thank me later.