No, I'll leave that to you.
I disbelieve what you say about your circumstances because the change so often, I don't believe you would treat people working for you as you say you would in the event of last minute completion, bullshit.because if you did you'd be out of work yourself very quickly. It is rhetoric, look how efficient and ruthless I am with my colleagues.
Oh, and Parkinson's 1st law of work is true. It has been proven.I've done it myself.