It sucks big time when you've put in days and nights on a particular project and later face flak for not delivering it on time. What can I do that it took time 🤷🏾‍♂️

I did not purposely intend to lose business hours, I only want to do my work properly with the full (or atleast some) knowledge of what I'm doing !

Guess I just had a Bad day 😅

Then why did you invest that time?

This is what bothers me so much about deadlines and estimates. It's like ok, we can aim for that, sure, but at the end of the day it's just an arbitrary date that you picked. Even if the dev team agrees up front that they can probably hit it, there are so many variables in programming (pun intended) you can never be 100% certain how long a project is going to take.

@k0pernikus
When you're a Junior Dev, you can't always estimate the exact hours that will be spent on a task. I liked what I was doing so, I took the extra effort to ensure that my work was flawless, but apparently quality of the work was not even assessed once !

@MathewTG It's true that you cannot estimate the exact hours that you will spent on a task. That's why it's called estimation. If deadline approaches fast, voice your concern that you see risk in achieving that goal.

Yet unless you are getting a bonus or you are ordered to do (paid) overtime, don't make extra effort. Don't work for free, just don't.

Yes, it can be learning event, it can also lead to distorted expectation once you do work your time, it can lead to false time estimates from higher up for follow up projects as well. And burn out. Take care of yourself.

@devios1
And you know what ?
It was not even my estimates !

@k0pernikus
I get it. I also understand that work hours is very important in an atmosphere like mine ( a startup ), but very recently, I feel like the quality of the work is not given enough importance, only the quantity.
And I do agree that Burnouts should be avoided at all costs !

@MathewTG Then either try to fix the culture or leave the company to find something more suitable.

It's why I don't do web agencies anymore that focus on one off fire and forget projects, but having a product that needs to stay alive for a while.

"Start up" is also often a pretty fancy way of saying that they don't want to pay competitive​ salaries. So again, unless you don't have shares in the startups future profits, don't work unpaid overtime. Just don't.

Fuck impatient managers who don't care about quality products or happy employees! Just do the best you can and don't let em bully you.

Update :
Got a good review on the work. The client appreciated the professional quality of the scripts... !
Worth it ☺️

And also took away some of the heat 😅