> burnout happens to you because of circumstances imposed by the employer. This is often the case, but I think very often there is a lot of self-inflicted hurt

> burnout happens to you because of circumstances imposed by the employer. This is often the case, but I think very often there is a lot of self-inflicted hurt there, too, with employees burning midnight oil because they convinced themselves that something bad will happen to them if they do a task a day (three days, week) later. <rant> As a personal anecdote, I have to wage real wars to prevent people who work on my projects from coming to work when they are sick. I do not know what is it -- do they want to look heroic? believe this day is super critical? but they still show up to cough and sneeze on everyone. We have unlimited sick days, stay home! <rant off>