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>Psychological leading to physical: Anything that pushes people over the edge causing them to act out in harm to themselves and/or others especially when they m

>Psychological leading to physical: Anything that pushes people over the edge causing them to act out in harm to themselves and/or others especially when they might not see the alternate options available to them and/or may already be suffering an unstable state of mind. I agree. The trouble with this is often you don't know that's the case until an incident happens. This happened to me in my last job, and in my current job I've detected the workload is getting dangerously high again and am trying to push back on it given I feel like it's unsafe, but I don't know that I really feel believed.

LinuxBender 4y ago
Sorry to hear that. Have you had a one-on-one with your manager? If so and they are giving preference to company over your well being? Does your company support skip-level meetings? If so, have you kept your CV/resume up to date and been looking for other options?
- barking_biscuit 4y ago
  My direct manager definitely gives preference to my well being. I'm in talks with various parties to try work out where the disconnect is. I have identified one definite disconnect that is at least partially responsible for the current situation, which I intend to address in my 1:1 this week. I haven't had a skip level 1:1 yet, but as a team we had an AMA with our skip level and skip-skip level managers and were told by the skip-skip level manager "we don't have people for you". I feel like this is such a common theme I see inside tech companies that I wonder why engineers tend to accept the status quo and don't push back on it as much as they ought to. I think since getting burned by it the first time I have developed a lot of skills/expertise to detect the conditions under which it happens and since becoming almost hypervigilant about it my calibration differs so drastically from my peers that I think people just think I'm nuts.

LinuxBender 4y ago

Sorry to hear that. Have you had a one-on-one with your manager? If so and they are giving preference to company over your well being? Does your company support skip-level meetings? If so, have you kept your CV/resume up to date and been looking for other options?

barking_biscuit 4y ago
My direct manager definitely gives preference to my well being. I'm in talks with various parties to try work out where the disconnect is. I have identified one definite disconnect that is at least partially responsible for the current situation, which I intend to address in my 1:1 this week. I haven't had a skip level 1:1 yet, but as a team we had an AMA with our skip level and skip-skip level managers and were told by the skip-skip level manager "we don't have people for you". I feel like this is such a common theme I see inside tech companies that I wonder why engineers tend to accept the status quo and don't push back on it as much as they ought to. I think since getting burned by it the first time I have developed a lot of skills/expertise to detect the conditions under which it happens and since becoming almost hypervigilant about it my calibration differs so drastically from my peers that I think people just think I'm nuts.