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Why are unreasonable/nearly impossible deadlines so common?

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Clients pay us way too much and have crazy expectations in return. Remember that next time you're a client to someone else

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Keeps you on your toes

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Becauase people know you'll be late and tell you a deadline that will mean getting it done late gets it to them on time.

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Because your superiors suck. If you get a truly unreasonable deadline you should be open with them upfront, being able to manage expectations is important.

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Some people have the winning combo of idiocy and lack of empathy, which drives them to give laughably short deadlines the unreasonableness of which they're genuinely too dumb to realize.

Others anticipate a negotiation and use short deadlines as an information producing mechanism. They're not sure how long it'll take you or what else is on your plate. So you can either do it when they propose or give good reasons for a different deadline. I'm definitely in this boat when I think analysts are being lazy or might have a way to do stuff way faster than I expect.

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^ I'm surprised that as an Associate you actually don't know how long it takes for an analyst to do something (or even *how* to do it for that matter)

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