#workplace burnout

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"“It means we have to have half as many journalists in the wings waiting to move in next year,” said Matt Albasi, the report's author and a data journalist at Muck Rack. “And we’re going to lose all this institutional knowledge if these people actually do leave.” Why, potentially, are so many thinking about leaving? It’s an election year. The journalists surveyed reported that their primary sources of stress include their workload, salary and the expectation that they always be “on.”"

[anachrolady]

This article is so, so true. I know many feel the same way I've felt, especially in the healthcare industry. I wish more companies would understand these points and help support those working hard to keep them in business.

[bitchesgetriches]

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Ducky here! Inspired by Kitty, this is me telling the Bitches I’m quitting my other job! Counting down the days (and burning the matches🔥) til I can leave my toxic workplace.

Burning yourself out is not worth it, y’all!

[family-trauma]

Lately I've been absolutely burnt out. Not only has my personal life been toxic and draining, my work has became the same if not worse. Trying to stay afloat and keep everything straight has been extremely exhausting for me.

I thought going to a new job will help reduce some of the toxicity of the previous one, well I was so wrong. The new job turned out to be 10 times worse. With too many managers and politics being played, the environment has been unnecessarily toxic even though the work itself is good.

Please send some good wishes my way so I have the strength to handle all of this. 🙏

[liriodovaleadhd]

Dobra. Nie rozumiesz. Daj mi to.

[theconfusingfrog]

“There’s something therapeutic in letting my Autodesk subscription finally expire. For years I kept that darned software and used it religiously because you needed me, because without my work this whole operation would fall apart. I cried at my desk more times than I care to admit, I ate meals at my computer and you let me- you encouraged it.

This year I left and didn’t look back, and when I got the reminder to renew my subscription I left it to rot. It felt good… freeing

It seems you’ve been doing the same with me. I heard what you’ve been saying about me, and it stings more than I care to admit. I had thought that we could be professional about this, that we could be gracious. I held up my end of the deal and more, and in return all I get is the knowledge that I never really mattered.”

[4byun]

Hi tumblr dot com. I have officialy finished my first week of internship. a full week of 8 to 5 -w-)b I feel.. exsanguinated. @ people with jobs.. How .

[thelikesoffinn]

Workplace Trauma is fun, you guys.

So. Fun.

[darkobssessions]

I'm getting really angry at how nothing about work or workplaces is geared for neurodivergents and especially autistics.

Absolutely nothing from the set up, the requirements, the social element, the hours, the expectations, the environment. Nothing.

Not the resumes and cover letters, nor the interviews, nor the vague conditions and agreements upon employment.

Am I a bit late to the party? Maybe. But it is because I only found out I was autistic in 2021 and have a patchy work history, leaving jobs, doing part-time gigs, and burning out in my education career.

I'm in severe burnout but also in a position where I have to get independent and fast away from my abusive family. I've basically dedicated my existence to job search, resume writing, and applications for the last 2 years (I lived with my partner for some of that time but had to leave the UK due to no full time job/visa and then with my parents the rest of the time working at the only career I've had that's paid me consistently: education).

The only problem is passion projects are impossible when you're burnt out, and careers often burn autistics out (because of set up of workplace cultures). I love teaching. I don't love demands, social elements and sensory overload.

My experience basically qualifies me most strongly for educational jobs.

But I am finding everyone is requiring so much all of the time, even in the process of hiring and giving you so so so little that it isn't even worth it.

'We'll hire you, but maybe only one day a week.'

'We don't know when you can start, HR has a huge backlog right now we will let you know when we know more.'

'You need to do these 5 trainings before you begin and go book fingerprinting and background checks.'

They want you to give everything and pay you a part-time wage.

Or they want you to give 40+ hours. Or super early in the morning (which is not possible with my burnout, mental health, moods and physical issues). Not to mention the 'benefits' of a minimal number of sick days they pat themselves on the back for 'awarding' you with, let alone miniscule holidays, and sickeningly low pay for cost of living.

It's all so hostile for NDs.

At first I looked and looked for something fulfilling, and since I have experience, education makes sense. I love teaching. But it's not great if I don't want to be burnt out and on the edge of meltdown daily.

Now I am looking for something part-time that leaves me alone and I can come home from not having been completely overloaded (maybe warehouse work, factories, bookstores, grocery stocking). I thought I wanted to be invested in what I was doing but coupled with what I'm experiencing and what I've read from others about their burnout and jobs, it looks like this may be the way to go.

To put this into perspective, even if something seems like a really good fit because of your experience/career/background or interests there will be a catch or a requirement that it is impossible to fulfill. There's a part-time youth instructing job at a recycling centre gearing them up for graduating and careers which sounded like a great fit until I got to the part where it said it needs you to have a driving license since you will 'ocassionally' need to transport students (ages 16-24!).

Why?

Why must I be an educator AND a social butterfly AND a driver and navigator?

Why?!

It's cheaper and better for them if their workers do everything but it's prohibitive to those of us that have issues and disabilities.

I'm sorry but my abilities as a teacher have no bearing whatsoever on my ability to drive. Driving extracts so much energy from me, is terribly dangerous when I am overwhelmed or melting down, and causes me to panic regularly. I don't notice as much what is going on around me when I am overwhelmed and make mistakes if I am pressured. I have trouble recognising a route even if I frequent it. Places look different at different hours of the day. My ability to navigate is extremely low. My ability to teach is honestly why I was born.

Why must every single role expect you to be neurotypical?

Why to protect our mental health can we only do minimum wage jobs?

Why is this system stacked against us?

I'm so frustrated right now and if I could just make some money to be independent of abuse I could funnel it into creating BETTER for us because we sure as anything deserve it.

[bitchesgetriches]

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[mahariel-s]

honestly it makes me so mad to admit it but the tip that pushed me over into full autism burnout where i had to quit my career and seek Professional Help was when i had to talk to 2 cishet male employees about . Cleaning poop off the toilet seat in the communal employee bathroom after they have used it. i was like, u cant leave poop on the seat. we're in a pandemic. then one left poop on the toilet paper roll. and another one changed his underwear in the bathroom and forgot his dirty underwear which he had put on the mop bucket TO DRY bc they were sweaty. like i literally lost my mind and had a nervous breakdown because cishet dudes couldnt clean up after themselves in the fucking communal employee bathroom DURING A PANDEMIC

[faithfromanewperspective]

I can’t be the only one who can’t stand the recent trend taking of to call burnout ‘exploitation’. Like it’s good in theory and all but when it comes down to it, there’s always going to be some of us who simply can’t cope with what’s seen as a societally ‘reasonable’ level of demands. Like I’m still sifting through things hanging over me going back a decade or more to when I was a literal child. I guess you could blame the years-long intense burnout I’m experiencing on my educational institutions who thought I was gifted and had me perform at high levels in multiple things while keeping up with as many things as everyone else. On society who decided this is the way we treat kids, to set them up for the grind as adults (even though it mostly does the opposite). On my family who didn’t know what the kind of energy I had to ration out was or what my triggers and drains were. But the truth is in so many ways I was sheltered from exploitation and my parents made sure of it. The truth is I didn’t have to work through high school or do any extracurriculars and I was actually encouraged to drop some.

Even now, half of the demands that hold over me still come from my own ideas, because since I was young I had too many and couldn’t keep them in my head: I had to do them. The truth is I never showed signs of needing a break until long past when lasting damage was done, and I was dumb and passionate as teens and young adults are supposed to be, and had anyone tried to warn me to slow down, I would feel like they were taking my autonomy away and work even harder. This is what happened, I’m not exaggerating. Yes I was working to earn connection that I shouldn’t’ve gone without, but you can’t police connection and ensure everyone gives it: many people simply don’t know how to give it. It’s a paradigm shift: when we prioritise connection exploitation is ridiculous as a concept. We see everyone as human. We empathise and those of us who have love to give aren’t banished to only ever express it in fandoms, but are a beacon of social capital to society as we’re mentored and our capacity is built to share it. It’s the same way (and this is an oversimplification, I am aware of that, it’s only an example and not the point of the post) indigenous societies have thrived on the land for millennia caring for it through connection. We thrive when we care for our workers the same way: souls we steward and share in the good works of. Elsewise you end up with rules and standards and for those of us who can’t live up to them, too bad, everyone else did everything right so we end up believing that the ones who are doing it wrong are us.

[lubbin95]

Understanding Burnout and How to Overcome It in the Workplace

https://lubbin95.blogspot.com/2023/03/what-is-burnout-and-how-to-overcome-it.html

[writtenwillows]

I love when my boss says I’m good at things because it’s like academic validation but I’m also getting MONEY!!

[finderofsmallthings]

Fellas, is it ethical to start a coup at your place of work when your department director is a) milquetoast and b) doesn’t really want the power anyway?

[liriodovaleadhd]

"Jesteś w dupie".