Staying late every night isn’t proof you care. Sometimes it’s proof the plan is broken.

Extra hours can mean commitment and can equally mean something is broken upstream. If finishing always takes the evening, the honest question is whether the workload, the method or the plan is wrong, because effort is being spent patching a structural problem. Visible sacrifice is not the same as good work.

If you are regularly running past the end, write down for a week where the time actually goes. Find the task that always overruns and ask whether it could be done differently or earlier. Raise it as a question about the plan rather than a complaint about the hours.