Our drilling team has been working 14-hour shifts for six weeks straight and everyone is exhausted but we keep saying yes to the overtime because the bonus money is too good and I'm watching guys make mistakes they wouldn't normally make and nobody wants to be the one to say we should slow down.
More people experience this than they realize.
Everyone keeps chasing overtime pay even as exhaustion leads to dangerous mistakes.
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