Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]
I had a manager tell me that “2 weeks” for an involved feature somehow wasn’t quick enough and I needed something by a week or else execs would bring the pain.
We’re in such a batshit timeline. I want off.
My entire professional career has had threats of the boogeyman coming if things don’t get done faster than they can realistically get done.
I’ve been doing this long enough that my estimates are actually pretty reliable. Two weeks too long? No problem. It’s still a negotiation. Put the ball in thier court by saying what scope they’re willing to cut to get it in the timeframe they were imagining.
They’ll either play ball and cut, accept that it’ll take as long as you originally said, or say “no, everything, do it in 2 days.”. The managers who do the latter in my experience don’t last very long… because usually THEY’RE the ones that were making impossible promises that never quite seem to pan out. They eventually get canned in favour of someone who is more reliable.