"By this point, I was crying harder, and Bob looked like he might start crying at any moment now, too. We were also pretty far from Bandley 4 by now, and it was starting to get dark. The tone of the conversation seemed to shift as we both realized that we should start heading back."

But I guess that was 39 years ago...

On a more serious note: I haven't seen it in a long time but I've definitely seen it on some of the hardware teams. It was when Apple was smaller and we were continually trying to fit two weeks of work into one week. At that pace everyone eventually breaks down and some do it differently than others.

Apple being huge now has its disadvantages but one advantage is I haven't heard of months of project death marching in a long time.