Overstating problems/blockers, overestimating stories and overselling your work should be in any capable slackers toolkit to enforce work life balance and prope

Overstating problems/blockers, overestimating stories and overselling your work should be in any capable slackers toolkit to enforce work life balance and proper pacing on the "client" (read: employee) side. One should also teach those skills to colleagues to deconstruct high performance (stress) environments. I once had a manager who would literally "sneak up" on people: He would make cartoonish sneaking gestures while sneaking up behind someones chair! He criticized anything not purely work related he could see on screens. When I had worked enough and wanted to rest, my solution was to literally scroll through source code while going somewhere else in my head.