I will never understand why and how my manager is able to commit deadlines with clients without having a meeting with our software development team and then he tells us to develop the features in those unrealistic deadlines.

I know why. Internal pressure is easier than external pressure towards the customer.
The customer will argue, employees not

@ddephor unless they do. I think we devs eat way too much shit getting dumped on us.

@ddephor Time to start arguing and calling the manager a fool for guessing.

It's a revolutionary concept called "bullshitting" and it stops when the dev team forces it to stop and not a moment sooner than that.

@HollowKitty It stops too if there's no one left to develop under these circumstances ;)

@darthkebab The entire dev team leaving falls pretty neatly under "the dev team forcing it to stop", I think :)

@Nanos That's only if you care about the actual success of your team and working at that company long-term.

There are 3 steps of a project:
1.) Unrealistic deadline
2.) Missed deadline by x amount of month, years, ..
3.) Lawyers to sue each other for not delivering.
I also agree with the statements above, don't suffer because of idiotic management. They are responsible for the deadline, not the engineer. Work-life balance is important.

@Wolle I have been late sitting from the last week and today when I woke up I was prepared to put this nonsense to an end because I knew he would ask me to work late today too when it is my time to checkout.

I got up, he said please work, we need to deliver today's meeting changes. I told him you had meeting with the client but didn't talk about those features with me and anyone else on the team and this is my checkout time. then I walked out the attendance machine and checkout.

I would say fuck non-technical managers and stupid clients that want changes asap.

@AngryDev9981 nicely done :-)