a) happens routinely. It's not just that you effectively suck, your boss also sucks and needs to learn from it. Basically a) is your chance to recalibrate the

a) happens routinely. It's not just that you effectively suck, your boss also sucks and needs to learn from it. Basically a) is your chance to recalibrate the expectations, and if you don't do it you'll be stuck forever meeting random deadlines (well, even if you do it you're still not out of that cycle, but at least you're setting precedents)