This is a great comment and how one should evolve to stay sane and healthy. My BS filter is highly developed now. "We will have the project done by the end of

This is a great comment and how one should evolve to stay sane and healthy. My BS filter is highly developed now. "We will have the project done by the end of the month. Failure is not an option. We dont fail. We are xxxxxx. Come hell of highwater we will get it done. Lets do it". High fives. "If you get this done you will get ...... " ($$, vacation, yacht)" "Give it 110% people" "If we dont get this done ....... " This means: "This project is screwed. Nothing the team can do will save it. I do the right thing; I talk to the PM or whoever is in charge and politely but honestly share my professional assessment of the project. This is most often totally ignored. Which is fine. It is no longer my problem and nobody can come with "I thought you told me you would get this done ,.... " or some such variant. I will do a good job and try within my own parameters of sanity and health and time. After a rather unpleasant and unwelcome time I found myself in the army, having people yell at me all day (and night at times) Even when you have not slept for 48 hours, still screaming. I can't say anything positive about the army but it did give me thick skin. I am entirely unfazed and bored by some office drone talking to me loudly. Even if said drone starts turning purple. > ""With all due respect, sir, you're beginning to bore the hell out of me."" (Clint Eastwood as Gunnery Sergent Thomas Highway in Heartbreak Ridge (1986))