My advice would be to not set expectations for jobs you yourself couldn't do.
My example ... A while back, my etl logistics said that a certain pog needed to be completed in whatever number of hours.
The number he stated had no relationship to reality except that it was Friday, and we needed to come on under a certain number of hours.
So, I got to work as usual. I had a positive attitude going in. But by 10am, it was apparent it wasn't getting finished by the predecided time.
I know he couldn't have done it faster because a week later, he had to ask me how to tie a pog. All I could think is, yeah, you should decide how long this takes.
Just one example. But very frustrating.
One last thing, you can only push people so hard when they are making $9.25 an hour.