rforte's comments

We all get date parsing wrong at some point.

I think you'd have a easier time asking yourself why it's important for you to work day and night and send emails 24/7. Is it to get rich, make the investors and founders rich, validation, recognition, etc.? I'm not judging you but you might want to understand your personal motivation for why the company needs to be successful.

Like you mentioned, your colleagues are probably not lazy -- it's more likely they have different values, time commitments, and other responsibilities. For most of your colleagues I'm sure IT IS just a job. If your top priority in your life is that you help make the company a success, then more power to you. Making the company a success is probably not your colleagues top priority. Trying to make your colleagues top priority "to make the company a success", likely, won't go over too well either. Hate to break it to you but controlling what people prioritize in their lives isn't easy.

Try and focus on the things you can control. Otherwise, spending time and energy focusing on what other people are doing is going to eat you up. Don't worry about making the rest of your team look bad (side note: you're probably not going to no matter how good you are). You're not responsible for what they're doing or how they're perceived. If it really bothers you, you have the freedom to leave the company and try and find another place where your co-workers work just as much you do. My guess is you'll find that those places where you feel people work just as hard as you do are few and far between.

Really quick story: I have a former coworker (call him R) that used to work nonstop. He was transferred to a new group where he didn't know his new manager so well. This new manager would leave sporadically during the day or not respond to emails as quickly as R would like him to. R would go to other higher ups and complain and try to get his new manager reprimanded, or preferably, fired. R didn't like when other engineers didn't work as many hours as he did (especially his manager). One day during lunch, R started telling people how lazy his manager was and that they should be fired. After lunch, someone pulled R aside and told him that the reason his manager would leave work or that they weren't responding to emails was because she was taking her son to chemotherapy treatments and doctor appointments because her son was battling leukemia. The point is that you never know what's going on with other people.

Good luck in your endeavour!

Great article. We are doing something very similar with phantomjs to generate daily digests of our client dashboard for customers. Are you pointing the img tag to an external URL or are you inline embedding the image in the email? I notice that some email clients like mail.app and sparrow will replicate the attached image twice when you inline embed the image as an attachement. This is because it will render the body of the email but then show the attachement below the body (as an attachement preview). Wondering if you guys ran into a similar issue.