 Pixar did not encourage long hours, and, in fact, set limits on how many hours employees could work by approving or disapproving overtime.Employees' self-imposed compulsions to excel often trumped any other constraints, and were especially common to younger employees.In one instance, an animator had forgotten to drop his child off at daycare one morning and, in a mental haze, forgot the baby in the back seat of his car in the parking lot.