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Project Manager: Hey Gid, we need to start migrating project-A to the new Server.

Me: Okay, I will inform Dev-Q.

Project Manager: Please do and treat as top priority!

Me: Hey Dev-Q, we need to migrate project-A to the new Server and we need to get it done asap.

Dev-Q: But I'm currently working on some critical bug XYZ which PM wants fixed before COB.

Me: I dunno maybe you want to speak with him.

Dev-Q: I was told to...

Project Manager: Yes! we need that done right away.

Dev-Q: What about the critical...

Project Manager: No! treat this as top priority the client just called.

Dev-Q: Okay.

Me: Any update yet?

Dev-Q: Yep but it seems like the database is quite large and the migration may take a while.

Me: Okay take your time.

Dev-Q: {hours later} Pheww done! All files and database migrated successfully.

Project Manager: Good good. So the critical bug XYZ was also completed and migrated to the new server right?

Dev-Q:

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  • 4
    True
  • 10
    When PM tells you that another task has priority over your current priority task, they always expect you to undergo mitosis and assign one copy of yourself to each task.
  • 12
    "Client just called, we need this ASAP!!!"

    The reason you're called a manager, is to... You know... Manage. If everything the client requests immediately has top priority, please remove yourself from the equation and let us engineers deal with the client directly instead.
  • 3
    I would sometimes say yes the bug is fixed and do it few days after ... in most cases , neither the client nor the pm actually care about the "critical bug" that needs to be fixed asap
  • 3
    Must be nice living in multi-linear PM time where everything fits in between other things
  • 0
    😂😂😂
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