> But in the end he's the one who should be allowed to override an engineer's decision on ... when to pull extra hours No way. I can agree that often the PM ha

> But in the end he's the one who should be allowed to override an engineer's decision on ... when to pull extra hours No way. I can agree that often the PM has the ability to set task priorities (not always, devs can push back and the devs' people managers will have the final say), but no way does a PM have the authority to decide that a dev should be working extra hours. Absolutely not. That is a pure people management decision (and one that should almost always be decided no).