Whose deadline is it? If you weren’t involved in the scope and scheduling discussions, then it’s not your deadline. No authority without responsibility and vice

Whose deadline is it? If you weren’t involved in the scope and scheduling discussions, then it’s not your deadline. No authority without responsibility and vice versa. Early in my career, yeah I did a fair bit of unpaid overtime. With enough experience and clout, you learn 1) this is bullshit and I don’t actually have to take it and 2) now that I have clout, no one’s even going to dare whisper an expectation of such nonsense. How do you earn that clout? By taking responsibility for when you were involved in setting the scope & schedule and it’s genuinely your fault and so you volunteer to do OT to fix it.