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