> Time spent on tasks was never as relevant as hitting deadlines without backtracking or building up technical debt. Bean counters want their cake and eat it t

> Time spent on tasks was never as relevant as hitting deadlines without backtracking or building up technical debt. Bean counters want their cake and eat it too. I guess their brains go something like this: "if you're done already then work some more, I pay you for 8 hours!!!11" (when you're done early) and "we're not hitting deadlines, work more than 8 hours! I pay you for output, not for hours!!!11" (when you're not)