New Sleep Deprivation Study
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I once worked for a moron educator who would have me work all weekend to give a class beginning on Monday morning.
Rather than make her support people who were responsible for the setup handle the matter she would place it upon my already overworked schedule as if I owed her every hour of both my work week and premium off time.
So I would end up working straight from Friday afternoon through the full day Monday and have to teach the remainder of the class on top of that.
When I finally got home I would be called to the telephone should it ring for even the most trivial crap — even though I hadn't slept in 64 hours at all and treated as though I was crazy when I protested.
To this day I have declined to be a slave to the phone for that reason.
Yes. Sleep deprivation is deleterious to your functioning, your comfort, your sanity, your health and well being. This is why it is frequenly utilized in instances of torture ... to break down the resistance of a person to interrogation.
Why it took Microsoft research to decide this was a relevant study escapes me. However, it is quite true and I can attest to many instances when I taught college how such frequent impositions were simply more than anyone should ever have to bear yet it was common in that place of unscrupulous immoral leadership called "the system".