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Me: We have a bug, we are not sure what's really happening yet. We have to look into it.

Project manager: what's happening

Me: We dont know yet

Project manager: How much time will it take to fix it

Me: We dont kn... actually *quick maths* unknown multiplied by "I dont know" divided by logic and addition of past experience - how many times we cant put time on bugs multiplied by we have been here before subtracted by the sqaure root of can we have time to investigate first?

Me: ....mhh an hour or so (then I remember Harry Potter wasnt my classmate) oh actually 2 hrs (in my head, safer)

Bug takes 2 days to solve 🙃

Project manager: you said 2hrs

Me to myself: I said it's a bug. A damn bug.

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  • 10
    5y
    Learn from that... Be safe and say next time "probably a week"... If you will do it faster ask for a promotion because of your skill ;D
  • 3
    5y
    thats why you always multiply estimates by 7.
    14h are roughly 2 days
  • 5
    5y
    Small issues: minimum of one day.

    See this as the total calendar time, not total work time. Managers dont care about work time, only calendar. This gives you time for testing and waiting on slow people and pushing to prod once verified. Doesn't mean you can't work on other things while waiting.
  • 3
    5y
    How long takes unknown to fix?
    infinite times of years.

    Tell them how it works using diseases.

    How long does it take to make a cure for an undetected virus?

    Then it's been found and it's properties are mapped. Cure development goes quicker.

    Half of the world has been infected, so we need a cure asap. Every person on earth with a little knowledge of medicine is working on a cure.

    You can't cure diseases that are unknown.
  • 2
    5y
    @Codex404 In that scenario greenland is the only hope...
  • 1
    5y
    @Gregozor2121 haha, I had just finished a game when I posted this :)
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