Behind every ❗️❗️❗️🚨🚨🚨URGENT🚨🚨🚨❗️❗️❗️ there is a person who's about to miss a deadline and, instead of working on themselves to prevent that from happening in the future, makes it the developer's deadline to miss

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also that urgency is rooted in job insecurity, not even customer impact. They just don't want to look bad.

E: which I mean fair enough, me too, but still.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if you do your job properly, you don’t end up in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah but we're all learning, so a certain amount of grace is called for.

Anyway, not to counter my own point. There's a line, is what I'm saying, and it's blurry.