Ah, yes, it's that wonderful time of the quarter when the salespeople are humping to hit their commission numbers, so we get inundated with arbitrarily schedule

Ah, yes, it's that wonderful time of the quarter when the salespeople are humping to hit their commission numbers, so we get inundated with arbitrarily scheduled demos and evaluations that have to be resolved right this second. Never mind that we've got our own schedule, with testing and development budgeted to get the next release out by the dates that have been promised to yet more customers and leads. Some of the developers on my team haven't been able to get any real work done in two weeks because of this clusterfuck routine. Even better is when we're supposed to drop everything to expedite closing a deal, and then the contact on the customer side is taking a two-week vacation... I'm starting to realize that I should just not plan on anything happening during the second halves of March, June, and September. At least in December everyone is on vacation.