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I think the below article on burnout is the best thing Marissa Mayer has ever produced!! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-12/how-to-avoid-burnou

I think the below article on burnout is the best thing Marissa Mayer has ever produced!! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-12/how-to-avoid-burnout-marissa-mayer https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-12/how-to-av... If you subscribe to the theory that burn out is all about resentment then it gives you a whole new set of tools to deal with it.

rubiquity 10y ago
I like the idea but what do you do when your resentment comes from something external rather than internal? Getting to soccer practice on time and eating dinner with your friends can be controlled. What do you do when you're burned out because you don't feel appreciated or challenged?
- dvtv75 10y ago
  Depends on why you're burning out. Constant demands for overtime without the extra pay? Your manager is also responsible for the IT dept., so when your computers fail IT are told not to bother? Forced to resign down to a much lesser role because of 70+ hours/week and an inconsequential spelling mistake? You seethe, and do less, and less. When a fault occurs that you could correct, you don't. You turn up 40 minutes after starting time, and walk out of meetings early. Everything becomes half-assed. Oh, and you start to plan ahead, so you can get the boss back by dobbing him into a governmental authority. Right now, I get paid to flirt with a lot of pretty women for much of the day.
nottorp 10y ago
That's new. Initially she was saying she doesn't believe in burnout, and if you're 'strategic' about showers, you can sleep under your desk and work 130 hour weeks. Random reference: http://www.thegrindstone.com/2013/01/22/mentors/becoming-marissa-mayer-or-how-to-lose-yourself-alienate-people/ http://www.thegrindstone.com/2013/01/22/mentors/becoming-mar...
TYPE_FASTER 10y ago
"He came back and said, “Tuesday night dinners. My friends from college, we all get together every Tuesday night and do a potluck. If I miss it, the whole rest of the week I’m like, ‘I’m just not going to stay late tonight. I didn’t even get to do my Tuesday night dinner.’ ” So if he grinds all week, he gets Tuesday night off? lol.

rubiquity 10y ago

I like the idea but what do you do when your resentment comes from something external rather than internal? Getting to soccer practice on time and eating dinner with your friends can be controlled. What do you do when you're burned out because you don't feel appreciated or challenged?

dvtv75 10y ago
Depends on why you're burning out. Constant demands for overtime without the extra pay? Your manager is also responsible for the IT dept., so when your computers fail IT are told not to bother? Forced to resign down to a much lesser role because of 70+ hours/week and an inconsequential spelling mistake? You seethe, and do less, and less. When a fault occurs that you could correct, you don't. You turn up 40 minutes after starting time, and walk out of meetings early. Everything becomes half-assed. Oh, and you start to plan ahead, so you can get the boss back by dobbing him into a governmental authority. Right now, I get paid to flirt with a lot of pretty women for much of the day.

nottorp 10y ago

That's new. Initially she was saying she doesn't believe in burnout, and if you're 'strategic' about showers, you can sleep under your desk and work 130 hour weeks. Random reference: http://www.thegrindstone.com/2013/01/22/mentors/becoming-marissa-mayer-or-how-to-lose-yourself-alienate-people/ http://www.thegrindstone.com/2013/01/22/mentors/becoming-mar...

TYPE_FASTER 10y ago

"He came back and said, “Tuesday night dinners. My friends from college, we all get together every Tuesday night and do a potluck. If I miss it, the whole rest of the week I’m like, ‘I’m just not going to stay late tonight. I didn’t even get to do my Tuesday night dinner.’ ” So if he grinds all week, he gets Tuesday night off? lol.