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The thing is if you can't budget the process into a regular work week, what is wrong with your project management? And why would throwing more hours at the prob
by XorNot 4y ago
The thing is if you can't budget the process into a regular work week, what is wrong with your project management? And why would throwing more hours at the problem fix it?
In exceptional circumstances this would be true, but I seriously doubt many company's actually have those (as opposed to managers pushing the panic button at the last second after ignoring issues for months).
- scarface74 4y agoI had “exceptional circumstances” once in my career. At my first tech lead job working for a company that sent home health care workers to take care of special needs kids. The field workers were making around $12-$17 hour (government reimbursement rates suck). I was leading an integration effort based on my own designs and we were migrating off of their current payment platform. If the integration efforts didn’t get done by a cut off date around Christmas, they would have received paper checks late. The office salaried workers wouldn’t have been affected. My management said that was an ok alternative - I vehemently disagreed. I fought for my team to get comp time and bonuses for working over time to meet the deadline. I could also see mandated overtime at TurboTax. You have hard deadlines to meet and often the “requirements” aren’t set by the government until late.
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- danaris 4y agoYeah, but TurboTax (et al) actually lobbies to keep those requirements high and changing, specifically to increase their own profits. Yes, in any given year, the specific nature and timing of the requirements may be out of their hands, but in aggregate, they absolutely bear some responsibility for that. Furthermore, it should also be their responsibility to ensure they have enough trained staff on hand to handle the tax season rush without harming their employees.