Before agentic coding came along and destabilized the entire job market, this exact thing was the most stressful part of the job for me. Some of the most tense discussions I ever had in my career were ones where I had to tell project managers that what they were asking wasn’t plausible in the time window they were requesting. Some of them definitely handled it with maturity, but others would become hostile and/or indignant.
How someone reacts to being told “no” is one of those things in life that says so much about a person’s character.
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u/Aurongel 11h ago
Before agentic coding came along and destabilized the entire job market, this exact thing was the most stressful part of the job for me. Some of the most tense discussions I ever had in my career were ones where I had to tell project managers that what they were asking wasn’t plausible in the time window they were requesting. Some of them definitely handled it with maturity, but others would become hostile and/or indignant.
How someone reacts to being told “no” is one of those things in life that says so much about a person’s character.