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Honestly I’ve just learned to take my “burned out” state and enjoy it. I am fortunate enough with my job in that if I meet the deadlines noone cares how much I work at any given time, so when I don’t feel like working I just go for walks, or ride my bike around, or even drive to some remote place and have a picnic. Then I compensate by working hard on other days/weeks. This rhythm made my life so much happier, instead of trying to force myself to do an even amount of work all the time (including both forcing myself to stare at the screen when I really don’t want to, and forcing myself to go to bed when I want to stay late to work)
When they decide to get rid of you, no amount of output will satisfy them. Everything you do will be micromanaged and if it looks like you will still meet the unreasonable deadlines, they tell you that you have to do it differently and also throw some other work at you.
Then they will criticize your inability to get the work done, and fire you.
I have no doubt about that. After they “fired” a couple of people for bullshit causes, we organized a little pseudo-union-thing with our colleagues (pseudo because we are a remote org with people from all over the world and can’t file for a legal union). As a result not one of us has been fired without a real cause, a serious investigation, and an attempt at redemption. Feelsgoodman
I’m sad that was necessary but happy your group was successful with it. I am fortunate in that the managers I work under are of the mindset, “Your an adult. If work is getting done to quality/schedule requirements and people can get a hold of you when needed, then I don’t care how you schedule your time.”
It’s not about managers, there are nice ones for sure. I like my direct manager a lot. It’s about the capitalist on top, who, when the times get rough, still tries to extract the most profit rather than actually reinvest some of the capital back into the business and keep people employed. This is unavoidable under capitalism.
Yes, I accept that is the nature of the beast for a publicly traded company. But I have not heard stories about my company playing stupid games like that. Probably because they are big enough that it would create legal risk and they know they will probably want to rehire some of the people getting layed off some time in the future.
Nice! Solidarity!
It is amazing what a job with healthy work/life balance can do. Unionize, and it’s even better.
work-hyperwork-omegawork-burnout-burnout-burnout-burnout-…
And then you ask the system when the next work cycle is and it just shows a loading bar that gets stuck at 13% before finishing the last 87 (I think? or whatever, I’m gay I can’t do math and not getting a calculator for a joke) in half a second with no warning.
Also its so weird seeing Admin next to your name when you comment on my shit now… I feel like I’m in trouble
I’m gay I can’t do math
Oh I could have fun with that.
As for the math thing, it’s one of those stereotypes we adopted like that we all walk fast, drink iced coffee, etc
one of those stereotypes we adopted
Alan Turing would’ve liked to have a word with whoever came up with that
And wear funny hats?
Maybe that’s Freemasons.
It also shows Mod next to my name. So double the trouble.
I just lost my job of 10 years to this shit a week ago.
Fucken idiot…
My highest ever record was 3 years, but I’m out of the burnout phase thankfully
It gets tiring cycling through the stages of “Woah, how did you do that? You’re a rockstar!” and “What the fuck is this shit? Where’s the [stupidly simple feature involving small but rote tasks] I asked for 3 weeks ago?”
It really does. It wears me down. It turns me into a human vegetable sometimes when I can’t cope with it. The only thing I found that works is to strictly follow a schedule to separate work time from hobby time. Make an ironclad schedule and stick to it. If it’s not working hours and the system is burning, don’t fall for it. Fuck everything else when it’s your “me” time.
Edit: also, resist “inspiration” when it’s a work thing. Don’t spend your weekends improving/re-imagining something work-related because your mind convinced you that it’ll make your life easier later on. Tell your boss/manager about the idea and see if they’ll let you do it on company time. If a task is taking longer on company time and they don’t want to fix it, then it’s not your problem, it’s theirs, and you’re getting paid either way
Who? OP?
He wouldn’t be wrong
Ah, Friday progress meetings. Yes I’m three weeks behind, yes I know I said that three weeks ago. Yes I could have probably reached out for help but I wasn’t far along enough then to understand what exactly I needed help on.
You gotta forgive yourself too. Some tasks are so new and so encompassing that you literally need some time to break it apart in your head and attack it from a few angles.
Curling up in a ball and fretting about it whilst doing nothing is one of those angles. It prepares you mentally for tackling it from other angles.
If it was as immediately easy as they made it out to be, then it wouldn’t be a problem they would delegate out. They have a rough idea in their heads how easy it is because it was built using their own convoluted logic which you then have to learn as an outsider
Every time I laugh at these memes I think that maybe I should be screened for ADHD.
I prefer to keep mine as Schrödinger’s ADHD. Best keep that box closed :)
Oh, I’m sure I’ll get distracted and forget. Because that’s a normal thing done by neurotypical people
Tbh it really isnt
I do a week worth of work in a panic over 6 random hours. Then doom scroll. Keeps me employed I guess…
Currently cleaning the storage room as I’m one Windows 11 install from madness.
why would you call me out like this, i’ve done nothing
wrongtodaythe problem is when you sign for a job, or postpone it, into a time when this hyperworkmode is required, but it doesn’t activate cuz this job ain’t one of those things that you get obsessed over.
For me a Pomodoro timer works well. 25 minute task, 10 minute break, repeat. But to be honest I did spend the day playing dwarf fortress till 16:00, then rushing the task I had alloted the entire day for in 90 minutes.
Same, but also specifically I have a Pomodoro cube timer on my desk. If I use an app or website I get distracted, the cube is simple, fast, and weirdly effective.
I’m feeling attacked here.
My work here is done
I like to think of myself as the human equivalent of a project Orion prototype. I work in pulses.
I straight up never would have known that I had ADHD without memes like this, I swear. It’s crazy.
Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck
-still technically undiagnosed
I did my week’s work yesterday afternoon. Today is now coffee.
