Once when my boss handed me a piece of work to be done for a third party and I immediately replied, like, "can have it in x minutes", he went whoa, let's not ru

Once when my boss handed me a piece of work to be done for a third party and I immediately replied, like, "can have it in x minutes", he went whoa, let's not ruin the prices. IOW take your time, if we finish too fast too often then before long we'll have to run all day just to keep up with the unrealistic expectations we've unwisely set for ourselves. "Wir wollen doch nicht die Preise verderben" is one thing, the other one is "Gut Ding will Weile haben". Both underappreciated by the young eager colleague next to you.