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> It's awesome having leadership that supports us in moving forward with a project like this.

So I really applaud what you guys pulled off as a technical feat, but you need to realize that leadership disproportionately benefits from all this. From you 6 alone, they gain something like 48 * 6 = 288 free working hours. Rounding down, that's 6 man-weeks packed into a weekend! In cash, that's $15K, which means you've each forgone something like $2,500 in opportunity cost dollars.

> Once the project was complete we each got a couple of extra personal days.

If you all really worked for 48 hours you should get at least an additional week off or get paid $2500 especially given the value of what you all built.