If the deadline was around a month or less and it wasn't insurmountable, work some weekends to get it past the finish line with meals provided and the understan

If the deadline was around a month or less and it wasn't insurmountable, work some weekends to get it past the finish line with meals provided and the understanding that every extra day worked was a free day off after the deadline. Now, if the deadline was further out and we were already in trouble then scope was reduced to something more manageable (I'm glad I didn't have to participate in those meetings). Where you should never be is at the end with an insurmountable amount of work left where everyone is working crazy hours with no end in sight. That's management fucking up, they should've seen it coming a lot earlier when you aren't meeting goals along the way.