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>The trick is to make them choose their own deadline and fail. That way you take away the scapegoat "they set unrealistic deadlines" because the engineer digged
by wildrhythms 4y ago
>The trick is to make them choose their own deadline and fail. That way you take away the scapegoat "they set unrealistic deadlines" because the engineer digged their own grave.
Manipulative, psychopathic behavior, and you are a bad manager.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoYep. "I'm asking you to estimate this unknowable thing, pressure you to give me a small answer, and if you get it wrong, you're 'weak'". This is tinpot-tyrant stuff. I saw that in a movie: "no, the German people have failed _me_, they were weak, and deserve to suffer for it".