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Every. single. time. It's gotten to the point where I have to actually ask "what's the real deadline?" after she gives the deadline.
An every day at Stax
I've been working day and night and weekends for 3 weeks to hit targets that keep changing for the project I'm working on.
The reason this is not burning me out (as it has in the past) is that I'm having the right conversations with the right people to know what we are trying to accomplish, why were are trying to do that, and what factors have changed that require a change in target.
If I was in the dark about all that, I'd have bailed. That's a miserable place to be, overworked, under-communicated, and basically made to feel like "this is just how life is here".
But if you are injected at some level to the decision makers and have knowledge of what's going on, and more importantly, have a voice (may not be a deciding voice, but get a promotion if you want that. :-D), it makes dealing with that garbage a LOT easier.
I was asked for an RFP early in my career to have it ready by the morning. I told my boss it would be an all nighter to pull off. He approved and said take the morning off afterwards. Got it done by 5am. 2x days later was told it hadn't even gone to the client yet. I almost punched the account manager.
Yeah, I would have lost it too.
It's frustrating, right? My boss also sets tight deadline and it turns out we had more time than we thought.
Not recently but I’d urge you to push back and make sure you are not agreeing to timelines that are fictitious
Nope. One client did, though, after a communication failure on their part turned phase 1 of a job into absolute chaos. Phase 2 became a game of dashboards, deadlines, and stand-ups.
I had a boss like that, a long time back. I didn't last long in that position... it was too much stress for me.
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Isn’t this every consulting project?