The last time I was paid by a company that was not ISO-9000 certified, I was working for the federal government of Canada. Over ten years ago. If I had one contractor like you ... my manager may have a small fit, but I'd be in heaven. Transparency, realistic dates, these would be awesome.

I'd like to point out that if you're going to be wrong on which direction to be formal, you've gone to the safe side. It is better to be more transparent and pessimistic than get management's hopes up and fail to meet the new hopes. You'll be blasted either way, but the alternative is significantly worse than what you're doing.

Not being in your shoes, it's really easy to say that you should explain your position to K - that the alternative could look even worse. Of course, explaining yourself is a lot easier said than done. I'm glad that my manager is the one telling me to do exactly that - overestimate rather than under.

In reply to Re: Professionalism can be bad by Tanktalus
in thread Professionalism can be bad by Whitehawke

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