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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Deadlines are pretty important in the professional world. If you miss a hard deadline, at best you end up looking sloppy and unprofessional, at worst you've lost your company a couple million and you're about to be out of a job.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm an absolutely fantastic employee, at least, my performance reviews and bonuses support the image. I also have absolutely terrible anxiety about mundane deadlines. Some paperwork that takes 3 minutes might be put off for an extra day or two while I spend hours day and night on my actual responsibilities. It's an issue.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I don't remember writing this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, no. In some specific cases maybe... But most of the time it doesn't matter and people are constantly late or half-assing everything. The discrepancy between what I learned in and expected from school and what I actually experience in consulting is mind-bogging, really.