I hear you, I’ve burned out in situations similar to what you describe several times. Gratefully with a much shorter timeline to recover in those cases. And ye

I hear you, I’ve burned out in situations similar to what you describe several times. Gratefully with a much shorter timeline to recover in those cases. And yeah, I’d absolutely own my responsibility for those instances, even if my workaholism was more visible. However, > That said, if you are being worked beyond your limits, the worst case outcome for most tech workers is to leave your company and get a pay raise. Generally? Maybe, I don’t know nearly enough to say. A lot of people have very different considerations about what factors into their sense of obligation/duty. I know that in this instance, I couldn’t ethically justify any alternative options until I knew I’d done everything I could to minimize the impact on people who had no fault in the situation, no direct recourse which wouldn’t be more harmful, and the potential impact being fairly serious relative to impact of a lot of common tech incident scenarios.