Project manager:
"Ah, we have so many projects. We want to finish all at once. Can you work 1 hour on each project every day?"

Not doing that, gtfo.

Wtf? Why would anyone suggest that, let alone a PM?? They must be very stupid, or very busy and didn't think what they were saying.

Do you remember the exam time at school / university… when you had to write for several topics each day one exam and felt in the evening like someone sucked your soul out of you?

That's why multi project is a bad idea TM.

And Fail all of them? Sure!
We can also fail in other ways as well!

@IntrusionCM try 20 😒

I have about 20 minutes a day per project, and that's if I don't have any meetings, so remove 3 to 7 hours of meetings a day and that's a whopping 2 to 13 minutes per day per project.

Yes that's 2 fucking minutes per project per day some days and they wonder why everything is delayed and behind schedule, and they have this a problem weird belief it's not a lack of Human Resources that's the issue here but still expect a full days work per project to be done. If you ever want to know what burnout is, come join me!

@C0D4 dafuq?
Context switch overhead cost problems?

@magicMirror when you become the bus factor and they do t hire more devs. Everything falls into the 1 basket.

It's mental breakdown waiting to happen for the wrong person.

Context switching isn't that hard for me though, I'm actually pretty good at it, but I suppose with enough practise you get good at anything right?

@C0D4 that's plain stupid. *sigh*

@IntrusionCM I didn't say it was a good thing 🙃

@C0D4 I didn't mean you by the way.

It just amazes me how some managers / upper hierarchy are unable to do the math of a 4th grader.

@IntrusionCM it's called "risk management" and apparently it's not a high risk 🤷‍♂️

Someone's going to burn in hell if I get up one morning and throw my resignation at them.

Just came out of a week long phase where I could focus on one project and it amazing

Can you cook 20 meals at the same time. Sure, but you will get 20 lumps of charred coal.