I was up till 1:30 AM last night working on a report for work. It was for the CSO, which is my boss' boss' boss. So I'm pretty far down on the food chain. Of course, this request wasn't given to me
directly by the CSO, but instead from my boss, who was asked for it by his boss, etc... I think both my boss and his boss were a bit nervous about it, to be honest...
I was pretty creative in coming up with how to crunch the data, and got a "great job, that was a really smart way to do it" from my boss, a "great job" from his boss, and my name dropped in the email that finally went to the CSO with my report. It almost makes it worth working till 1:30 in the morning. Hopefully it will eventually lead to some more money and/or a promotion, though.