>- an employee demonstrates an extreme reluctance to estimate when any task they are involved with might be done. Ah, there are so many reasons for this. I won

>- an employee demonstrates an extreme reluctance to estimate when any task they are involved with might be done. Ah, there are so many reasons for this. I won't give a deadline when I anticipate the requirements will change. Experienced workers can look at a planned implementation and tell management 'This isn't going to work, we're going to have to change this' and be handwaved away, because they know inevitably, after management has played out whatever fabricated 'negotiation' they've set up for themselves, inevitably the requirements will change and a new deadline will need to be established.