Timeline for how to talk to manager about missed twice delayed deadline
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | Flater | @flux: You seem to assume that there is or should be a hard deadline. Since you didn't get one, it's fair to assume that your manager is giving you the time to finish the work properly without cutting corners to reach an arbitrary deadline. Do the work, notify the manager of important delays, and keep them up to date on significant milestones (but don't saturate the conversation with tidbits). | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 16:24 | comment | added | user110973 | yea when I am stressed my emotions r everywhere. Latest: The manager reverted back an gave me time to get my stuff (no he didn't share time). But how do I proceed ? I think it was after he divided work into team bt they couldn't handle it so I am one man. Should I ask him what is new deadline or thank him for getting pressure off me? don't want that tomorrow he say I bought u one day but ur late again | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 10:59 | comment | added | Flater | @flux: Just to be clear, I'm not trying to criticize your comment for no reason. I'm trying to point out that you're adding a lot of information because you want to be helpful but it's causing your downfall. At work, it's leading you to make promises that you cannot deliver on (nor should you have, you just shouldn't have promised it to begin with) and in this question, you're overloading your question with details that don't matter. It's the same princple at play: you need to condense the information you convey and filter out the irrelevant bits. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 10:56 | comment | added | Flater | @flux: Don't take this the wrong way but your comment is rambling. I cannot follow your explanation because you barely break it up into sentences and it's just "and then ... and then ...". This is the underlying issue, you're saturating your interactions with so much information that it becomes impossible to focus on the important parts. Instead of blasting someone with every single thing you know, condense it into the information that is relevant, in this case (presumably) "The deadline conflicts with the amount of effort required to deliver this task". | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 7:59 | history | answered | Flater | CC BY-SA 4.0 |