Just right now:
Management: How's the feature going?

Me: The backend is done. Here's how the front end looks so far...

Management: What?! No! Where will they input the units? What about the input#2? and the graphs?! You were just not going to put that?

Me: ... this is how it's lookin so far. The deadline isn't until next week. I'm actually pretty ahead of schedule.

Management: But what about button #2 and #3? And input #4?

Me: Yes, it's all planned. It's not done yet. You asked me how I'm doing so far. Of course I haven't finished.

The mistake was to do the back end first. Management are simple creatures who find nice ui relaxing.

@nibor i don't think it was a mistake. If manager thinks there is a lot to do, he will be more hesitant to add/request new features or make changes to existing ones.

@impune-pl what kind of intelligent, thoughtful, competent managers do you work with?

@nibor yeah, if what I wanted to do was to please my boss that's what I'd do, but I just wanna finish as fast as I can

I was kinda depressed when working on "that one" project that had half of the backend relying on the headless cms - routes were defined there and shit, frontend part was abysmal and changing anything was PITA as templates were referenced inside each other indefinitely.

wanted to do refactoring on backend - no time

wanted to do refactoring on frontend - no time

I knew that isn't worthy to open or explain myself, so when scrum master asked me why I look so depressed I just said - codebase is so fucked up and I am forced to do hacks because I don't have 2 months as I estimated for this, 2 weeks that I got is just hackathon style fixes, makes me sad that I have to do this.

And the answer I got was eye opener - Does it look like it should? yes? why are you even giving a shit?

so fuck em and fuck em good with a rusty rake connected to the air compressor, all those management types that don't care that code is shitty as long as the app looks pretty!

@eo2875 - great job by being ahead and doing BE part first!