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All management at big corps has taught me is that delivering the product you’re working on is not the focus but also super necessary at the same time. I’m surpr
by spacemadness 4y ago
All management at big corps has taught me is that delivering the product you’re working on is not the focus but also super necessary at the same time. I’m surprised people aren’t having more meltdowns trying to live the impossible reality modern managers promote.
- quickthrower2 4y agoModern managers (maybe old fashioned ones too) have a funny arithmetic where the sum of any series is 180 (the hours you have this month)
- brazzledazzle 4y agoSaid out loud: "How can we squeeze this in without re-prioritizing or impacting other planned work? Are we sure it's all estimated correctly?" Silently implied: "Spend more hours working. Alter existing estimates enough to fit it in." You can ask them if they're asking for overtime/crunch and they'll say, "No, work/life balance is important to us at BigCorp. It's just that this is as important as our existing planned work and it would make our team/department look amazing if we can get this done too.". Yada, yada, yada. You can keep pushing back but how many times can you do that before you're no longer considered a team player?
- quickthrower2 4y agoOr silently implied “It’ll definitely be late. Not allowed to state the obvious so let it fail”