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Companies shouldn’t burn people out in the first place. Calling this bandaid a “Sabbatical” is just marketing to avoid looking bad for their poor management. Th
by kindfellow92 9y ago
Companies shouldn’t burn people out in the first place. Calling this bandaid a “Sabbatical” is just marketing to avoid looking bad for their poor management. They should use another word and not tarnish the very old tradition of academic sabbaticals.
- timr 9y agoAgain, why do you think that "academic sabbaticals" are any different? Academics work hard and get burned out, just like programmers. It's not a coincidence that professors take their first sabbatical not long after getting tenure. A sabbatical is a break where you do something different with your life. If it's good for the mind of an academic, it's good for the mind of a programmer too. Having just taken a gap year myself, I recommend it to anyone. It should be more available.
- nurettin 9y agoWell, some people use the word specifically for academia and not white collars with white collar jobs and white collar burnouts and white collar lives thinking they are somehow worthy of being called a "scientist", an "architect", an "engineer" because they wrote a bunch of loops and felt tired and accomplished.