Where's a time machine when I need one?

[draconis]

I just *love* being given impossible assignments.

I don't mean merely difficult ones, or even the ones that would require a team of 1,000 supra-genius programmers working around the clock in perfect concert to accomplish -- I've actually gotten used to those. ::G::

No, I'm talking about the ones that are physically impossible to complete by the deadlines they've specified.

For example...

In our office, we have four levels of program development. We do our initial work in Level 1, then have to meet with the Group Lead and the Team Lead in order to move it up through the remaining levels.

Monday around noon I was given an assignment by the Team Lead and was told it had to be at Level 2 by the end of the day, and at Level 4 by the end of the day Tuesday. No big deal... except that the Group Lead was on vacation, and the Team Lead was unavailable for the rest of the day.

So... if he knows neither one of the required people will be available (and *both* are required, not just one), why set those deadlines?