My policy is before any time sensitive decision is to determine if it is manufactured time sensitivity, that is the company created the time sensitivity. I refuse to act on things that are only time sensitive because someone else decided it should be. Those are traps.
We would only put up our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve when I was growing up, and it was ever so stressful watching my father haggle on the tree lot.
Tree guy, you can have Christmas without a tree. I hate Christmas trees. They take up space I don't (didn't; I have more space now) have, and spread needles everywhere. And I'm Christian, so I'm not that big on the pagan symbols anyway.
That is an excellent example. Who really has the upper hand? Depends on how close the competition is, I guess. And how close the competition is to their competitors..
This is why I've done my damnedest to avoid jobs that require additional on-call time. It invites abuse where everything has to be a crisis. I worked in e-commerce ONCE. Grandma can't buy shoes at 2am because part of the site isn't working? This is not an urgent situation.
Unless it's the Joint Chiefs calling me up from the war room to stop a meteor from destroying the planet, I'd rather go back to sleep. Even then I still might: they can fire me in the morning if there is one.
