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[Pastore]

I received an email from my boss wanting 3 new features added to one of our in house applications. The features can't take me more than 3 days to implement, but me being the slacker that I am told him it will take 6 days to plan, implement and test. So, I will probably spend the next 3 days screwing around and bust my butt the final 3 days before I told him I'd have it done. Is this common practice for you other programmers, sys admins out there? Am I going to hell? Is my boss reading this right now?

EDIT: Typos

 

[Ika]

You're going to be fired. And to hell.

 

[junkerman123]

Telling management that your project is going to take longer than it actually is is common practice.

Not spreading the work out over a number of days and making it easy on yourself in common procrastination.

 

[archiloco]

normal, but it sucks when boss knows the ins and outs of what you are doing, then it's harder to bs your way into more time for a project