There's no such thing as a hard deadline. Everything is made up.
"This video processing software needs to be ready by the Superbowl" or "This electronic voting software needs to be done by election day" don't strike you as hard deadlines?
"This video processing software needs to be ready by the Superbowl" or "This electronic voting software needs to be done by election day" don't strike you as hard deadlines?
You don’t get sacked, you just get to work on the next death-march project. And for your two examples, it might be punted to the next Superbowl or election.
Hard deadlines are not often deadly.
I mean, honestly, yes. That's kinda the point of "dead"lines, isn't it?
Finishing your term paper the night before it’s due was a thing we were supposed to outgrow in college.