If the deadlines are ridiculous and your employer is constantly blowing through them, then your employer's management doesn't take deadlines seriously. What I m

If the deadlines are ridiculous and your employer is constantly blowing through them, then your employer's management doesn't take deadlines seriously. What I mean is, the deadlines aren't being realistically created and measured and there's little or no consequence for missing the deadlines. Usually this indicates that management has stepped into fantasy land and doesn't want to acknowledge something about their business (processes, limitations, staff, industry, etc.) and would like to use deadlines as a way to maintain hope at the top for the future. It's not like this at all employers, but it is staggeringly common. I find that "top heavy" companies tend to suffer more fantasy-thinking management problems, but I'm not an expert. If you're planning on staying at your employer, you can try to help the process by more strictly defining the deadline scopes or by breaking up the deliverable scopes into more manageable chunks. If your employer has any hope of improving, your more-realistic-but-not-as-optimistic deadlines will be met with opposition at first and then acceptance when you start actually meeting them.