The bit about the crush to get something out at all costs which wasn't then looked at for days hits home hard. I've seen that trick pulled many times over my c

The bit about the crush to get something out at all costs which wasn't then looked at for days hits home hard. I've seen that trick pulled many times over my career and I've learnt to just shrug and let it roll. Unless you can explain to me why it is so absolutely critical that it needs to go today in a form I can understand then I'm not going remotely above and beyond to make it work out that way. Stressing out my entire team to make an arbitrary deadline imposed from outside for invisible reasons is the definition of me not doing my job as a leader. It takes experience and practice to learn to manage upwards but it's an intensely useful skill. Start not with explaining what you can't/won't do but instead with what you can/will do - most people are reasonable most of the time and if they are unreasonable anyway then whatever you do will not be right/enough.