Deadlines don't exist

[NotAllThere]

So deadlines do exist?

If they don't, where's that whoooshing sound I keep hearing come from?

[greenlake]

So deadlines do exist?

[TheDandy]

Fair enough. I'm talking about the sort of deadlines that are made up by guesswork (often completely unrealistic) and when not hit there is a completely over the top reaction and ridiculous blame game politics that destroys relationships.

Have you missed a deadline by any chance.

[Contractoid]

So deadlines do exist?

Yes they do but mostly not at work where ego maniacs make it all up to crack the whip and hit their own personal bonus targets.

A hostage negotiator talking to a kidnapper threatening to shoot their hostage by 4 o clock unless they get their demands. This is a Deadline.

In the film ”Armageddon” a team of 3rd generation oil extraction “rough necks” get taken by NASA to a huge Asteroid careering towards Earth at 25,000 miles per hour. If it hits Earth it will be destroyed and all Life will cease to exist. They must explode a nuclear bomb to split the asteroid in 2 and in so doing will save the earth. The catch is that this must be done by a point called “zero barrier” (cool sounding nonsense made up by the Producers so the viewers get it I admit). If they don’t, even if the Bomb Explodes and the Asteroid splits in 2, we all still die.

A Real Deadline.

This point in time occurred as the result of a chain of cataclysmic events in outer space, not by some greed obsessed human dickhead wanting to feather the old nest.

[TheDandy]

And it's only Tuesday.

[Contractoid]

And it's only Tuesday.

Quite. My angst levels at the moment have enough fuel to keep going to the end of the week at least.

[DiscoStu]

I still have no clue what the point of this post was.

[Pondlife]

Yes they do but mostly not at work where ego maniacs make it all up to crack the whip and hit their own personal bonus targets.

A hostage negotiator talking to a kidnapper threatening to shoot their hostage by 4 o clock unless they get their demands. This is a Deadline.

In the film ”Armageddon” a team of 3rd generation oil extraction “rough necks” get taken by NASA to a huge Asteroid careering towards Earth at 25,000 miles per hour. If it hits Earth it will be destroyed and all Life will cease to exist. They must explode a nuclear bomb to split the asteroid in 2 and in so doing will save the earth. The catch is that this must be done by a point called “zero barrier” (cool sounding nonsense made up by the Producers so the viewers get it I admit). If they don’t, even if the Bomb Explodes and the Asteroid splits in 2, we all still die.

A Real Deadline.

This point in time occurred as the result of a chain of cataclysmic events in outer space, not by some greed obsessed human dickhead wanting to feather the old nest.

Just so we're clear, you're using the film Armageddon as your Real Life example?

Cuckoo!

[DodgyAccountant]

If they don't, where's that whoooshing sound I keep hearing come from?

originally from

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

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[Contractoid]

Just so we're clear, you're using the film Armageddon as your Real Life example?

Cuckoo!

Hyperbole is a useful tool in explaining new arguments to those who may be numbed by the conventional ones.