[cstoner]

> Passion implies things other than working longer than everyone else.

Not to a lot of managers and bosses, it doesn't.

My team has weekly rewards for the people that work the most hours. Several people on the team regularly claim to put in 60-80 hours.

Personally, I feel that those same people are making the work environment worse. One of them in particular has created over 200 Bamboo build plans (and the corresponding deployment plans to 7+ environments). It's an unmaintainable mess with little-to-no logic involved. None of it is re-usable -- hence why there are over 200 build plans.

That guy gets praise several times a day for how hard he works.

The bosses don't care about how much passion (in our sense of the word) their employees have. They care about how much passion (in the "work 80 hours a week" sense of the word) their employees have.