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Yeah negotiating estimates with employees is odd. You are trying to predict something. Negotiating is to skew the prediction to be less accurate on average. Emp
by quickthrower2 5y ago
Yeah negotiating estimates with employees is odd. You are trying to predict something. Negotiating is to skew the prediction to be less accurate on average. Employee is not even doing it for fixed price so all the negotiating down does is lose accuracy.
Some really shit jobs would expect weekend work to make the difference but with this job market: f that!
- taneq 5y agoYou’re not trying to make it more accurate, you’re trying to shift ownership of the resulting shambles to the individual employee.
- quickthrower2 5y agoYes exactly. Or they just don't trust the employee, either ethically (they'll slack off) or technically (they are doing it wrong, that's why it takes long). Or worse they are of the "they need to be challenged, keep 'em out of the comfort zone" mentality.