Originally Posted by bunk

I remember at my old company we were transitioning to a new terminal operating system that we wrote inhouse. I was in charge of getting all the new hardware deployed and stress testing the software. Working 12+ hour days for weeks with no days off taken. My boss told me to take some time off, wouldnt even charge me PTO for that time off. I told him no, we need to get this done. A little time after that, I realized that I had gotten into a bad groove that scared me... my mentor had literally died of a heart attack during that project. I took a month off after that.