Burnout
#burnout · 11 voices
What people keep running into
- After-hours work messages pressure employees and harm work-life balance (2 voices)
- Requesting a raise feels risky after workload increase post-layoffs (4 voices)
- Accumulated personal and financial stress leads to chronic burnout (3 voices)
- High deductible health plans cost more than no insurance (2 voices)
Voices
- so ive noticed everyone around me treats their free time like its a side hustle waiting room now and i do it too, i cook dinner and im half watching a course on my phone propped against the toaster and i clean the kitchen while listening to a podcast about optimizing my mornings and somewhere in…
- How do you get a job to actually respect a cutoff time without turning into the person who 'has an attitude about communication'? My director added me to a new group chat last week just so he can message me on weekends about stuff that was never actually urgent come Monday. I tried letting it sit…
- Technically full time. Technically eligible for benefits. The deductible on the plan they offer is higher than what I'd pay just going without insurance and gambling. So that's the choice. Love being technically covered.
- Saw the whole internet agree this week that working forty hours is basically medieval. Meanwhile I'm on hour fifty one by Thursday and my calendar still says 9 to 5. Great system we've got here.
- my manager keeps pushing deadlines up without ever mentioning extra pay, and im now routinely working till almost nine most nights. want to actually track my hours properly so i have real numbers next time i push back, instead of just a vague feeling that im underpaid for what im doing. any good way…
- Ever since the Oracle news broke I haven't slept a full night in about two weeks. I just lie there running numbers in my head. I finally started looking at sleep and stress trackers to see how bad it's actually gotten instead of guessing. Has anything actually helped you? Besides staring at a screen…
- Things currently living in my head rent free: 1. Layoff news every single morning 2. A dental bill I'm still paying off 3. A boss who monitors my calendar like it's his job I feel like I'm constantly bracing for the next thing. Needed to get that out somewhere.
- between the layoff headlines every week, the dentist bill i still havent paid off, and my boss reading my screen time reports out loud in a meeting, i feel like im being squeezed from every direction lately. just needed to say it somewhere
- I keep waiting to hit a wall that would explain how I feel, but there's no wall. There's just this. The past year has been a layoff, a health scare, a close friend moving across the country, and a rent increase I couldn't really afford. None of it is catastrophic on its own. All of it together is…
- I have not taken a real day off in four months. Every weekend turns into catching up on emails or prepping for Monday. My company talks about work-life balance in all-hands meetings and then quietly rewards the people who never log off. 😮💨 I am starting to feel like I am disappearing.
- My employer just announced mandatory 6-day work weeks through Q3, citing "competitive pressure." No extra pay. Three colleagues burned out and quit this year. I want to push back but don't know what leverage employees realistically have right now. What are our actual legal rights here?