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by DoubleGlazing 1429 days ago
For me I had one manager where every time he said "how long will is take?", I got that feeling of fear and dread in my stomach. I suppose the problem was that he wasn't asking for an estimate, he was asking for a specific date when the project was fully deployed. He wanted pinpoint accuracy, even though that was impossible. Missing or undershooting a target would have him bringing you into a room where he would start interrogating you about what he perceived as a personal and professional failing on your part.

So anyways myself and others started pushing back and refusing to give estimates and instead just saying "it will be ready when its ready" and when pushed giving super vague time frames like "a few months". He did not like that.

So I took step two and moved to a new job.