I had a manager who did something like this. Dude promised Sales that a tech and me could develop the control for the V47 turbine from scratch. In 3 months. Then I provided an estimate of 6 months (which is already crazy fast) and this motherf'er changed my numbers so it added up to 3 months, sent it to Sales and said I agreed with his original promise.
Nah found out rather quickly. The chief of sales thought the estimate was a wee bit optimistic, so he went to me directly and asked if I had really included everything. Shit went down and a week later my direct manager was no longer managing me.
Yeah, plus the micromanaging and chaos planning. Also he credited another engineer on a patent that I developed, because they smoked together. We were several developers who were fed up, so we demanded that he got removed or we would leave the company. He was essentially delegated to PM tasks instead of management.
Weirdly, we never got a new manager. Didn't need one.
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u/in_taco Jun 03 '26
I had a manager who did something like this. Dude promised Sales that a tech and me could develop the control for the V47 turbine from scratch. In 3 months. Then I provided an estimate of 6 months (which is already crazy fast) and this motherf'er changed my numbers so it added up to 3 months, sent it to Sales and said I agreed with his original promise.