Yeah, I think it often backfires. Long ago I thought I did a good job on one of my first projects, would work after-hours on it for fun, and my co-worker said

Yeah, I think it often backfires. Long ago I thought I did a good job on one of my first projects, would work after-hours on it for fun, and my co-worker said I was doing a good job. But the client started to publicly shame me in the meetings, which would just demoralize me. I stopped working any extra hours. The hours I was at the job I spent half the time worried that I was going to be fired not getting much work done.