> I would tell your employer that you're suffering from extreme burnout both personally and professionally as you've described, ideally with HR involved as @exo

> I would tell your employer that you're suffering from extreme burnout both personally and professionally as you've described, ideally with HR involved as @exolymph suggested. This is IMHO naive and bad advice in the majority of cases. Especially so when he's a remote contractor. And especially so when the company is not a reputable established company with deep pockets and corporate machinery like Google/Microsoft/etc. Those companies have processes to deal and help with these cases (and even they don't really). But at the average startup (have to ship or almost going bankrupt, go figure the rest) two bros will have a quick chat and you get a "sorry ... bye" email next week.