stress and pressure

this week has been so stressful to me
with a lot of things that has happened,
a lot of things to attend to
and a lot of things i am looking forward to.

this week was our release week.
just a week before our release, we had a request to
have a temporary release and another release which
is a day before our planned schedule.

everything was still fine until monday.
we discovered some problems during our confirmation.
we stayed at the office until around 7am of tuesday
to send the temporary release.
we went back to the office in the afternoon.

that was around 2-3 hours of sleep for us.
we went home early on tuesday since we all look
so stressed and tired.
i knew we still cannot work efficiently even if
we force ourselves to stay here.
if i saw my groupmates sleeping in their cube, we
might as well sleep at our bed.

when we went back this wednesday morning, we are
bombarded with a lot of confirmation items, and
very impossible requests.
these are fine, as long as we have enough time
but as they see, we have around 35hours before our
release and they expect us to finish the remaining 75%
of the test items.
these 75% of items can be finished in 5days time.
but, that is not just the problem.
they have been reporting bugs which are not really
bugs, they just have problems with their configuration.
they want this and that and they want it right there and
then.

we are not super engineers you know!
grrrr!