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@EstrnAdventures Same here, thats why he said we will just wait with deployment until I am back. Last year a chain of unfortunate events and a deadline set by our clients client resulted in a situation were I had to make a hotfix during my vacation. This time we are just replacing an old API with a new one. There is no real deadline since the old API is working fine. It just became an unmaintainable mess over the years.
Conversation with my Boss
B: Are u a hacker?
M: No
B: We need a hacker?
M: Why?
B: Because X department w...
When your boss wants it done now but you're on vacation
Boss: How long will it take to finish the project?
Me: (Gives date for finishing dev and deployment.)
Boss: great, sound reasonable.
Me: ...
Boss: wait. Aren't you on vacation the two weeks after that.
Me: jup.
Boss: yeah we are not doing that again. Client can wait another two weeks.
Before someone says no Boss/PM is like that, he was/is a developer too so discussing deadlines and efforts is usually pretty relaxed since he knows our codebase and how long it takes to do things.
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