We were supposed to ship our product at the end of November. So we worked like crazy to make that happen (tons of overtime). We didn't make it so we were supposed to ship the 2nd week of December. So we worked like crazy to make that happen (tons of overtime). We didn't make it so we were supposed to ship tomorrow. So we worked like crazy to make that happen (tons of overtime only getting off on Christmas day - we've been working weekends and even on New Years day. I didn't get to go to OK to celebrate Christmas with my family because of this). So today we found out we get to work like hell for another 2 weeks to see if we can make that.
There have been 2 main problems with the project:
1) This is a 6 month project and they gave us 2 months to do it in.
2) The 3rd party tool we're shipping with this and are 100% dependent on does not really do what we need it to so this other company is basically issuing near daily patches to us to fix the messes they keep making.
This sucks. HARD.