> I don't understand how you would work within a team and show up every day saying 'this thing will get done whenever I am done with it, until then, please go

> I don't understand how you would work within a team and show up every day saying 'this thing will get done whenever I am done with it, until then, please go away' and expect any kind of meaningful collaboration. That's how I've worked successfully for the last few decades of my career and I haven't had any problems. In fact, I once had a project manager try to enforce due dates or even ask us to demo what we're working on (despite the fact that we develop bottom-up so there's nothing to show!). That manager promptly got reassigned to another web team.