Are you under pressure ?

Just a kind of survey.

Are you under pressure actually with your projects before Christmas ?

I like to know if you share the same, but I have my tasks list increasing dangerously and going toward the red rapidly !

Where this is coming from that we have to suffer from an important demand just before the Christmas holidays.
It's like nothing has to happen next year, the world will end or the global warming will finally have its payload.

Every year it's the same, deadlines are suddenly shortened, and whatever you say it has to be done before the 24th ;-)

 

8 Comments

  • Well, theoretically...actually today is my last day before the holidays (and I have refused to work whilst on holiday as I did last year).

    'Has to be done' is a dangerous thing in my opinion, coding is more like performing an operation than assembling toys - rushing only increases the likelihood of bugs, the sooner more clients (be they internal or external) the better...

  • Umm..should be 'the sooner more clients (be they internal or external) realise this the better...' anyway, have a good break!

  • for the bugs Scott believe me it's exactly what's happens. They are all asking for something to be done yesterday and of course it's buggy. But they're happy they have it done !

    And January will be an interesting month where I will have to fix it. I feel sometimes more like Bob the builder ;-)

  • Lucky man, you're on holidays tonight.

  • I feel your pain, because I'm on such a deadline myself too :) (and the worst part is: it's me who set the deadline :D ). I hope to finish it before Christmas, and I probably will, but it's indeed some weirdness about this 'end of year' thing: why is it so magical?

  • Since Ireland moved the financial year end to Dec 31st Christmas has been a complete write-off....in fact I won't get a day off at all (weekends and bak holidays inclusive) until January :-(

  • Duncan I just being told that we will have our Friday 2nd of January as none working day ;-)



    So this is not so bad after all !

  • Another deadline here, before the new year.



    Been sick for a week, so am pretty much behind on schedule.



    PS. I hate schedules

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