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no - resentment leads to "being pissed-off enough to go work somewhere else". please, lets keep "burnout" for burning out. you know: when you're in a foetal b
by andrewcooke 15y ago
no - resentment leads to "being pissed-off enough to go work somewhere else".
please, lets keep "burnout" for burning out. you know: when you're in a foetal ball sobbing, begging for it to stop; when you need years before your work is enjoyable again; when the client liaison goes on leave after an "accident" with a knife.
there is a difference between that and "resentment".
- neilk 15y agoYup. If you're resentful, you are antagonistic towards your boss and your co-workers. You'll be ready to quit. If you're burned out, you're probably hardest on yourself. It's been described as a 'crisis of self-efficacy'. I suspect that burned-out employees often don't have the self-esteem to quit, until it's absolutely necessary for health reasons or they get fired. That said... going back to resentfulness... if someone believes they're being gypped by their employer, perhaps that punctures some of the illusions we all have about work. A lot of us knowledge workers strive more for praise and recognition than we do for salary, a fact that our bosses exploit. Maybe the kind of 'burnout' that Marissa Mayer describes, I would call 'waking up to reality'.
- gnosis 15y agoYou don't have to sob to be burnt out. You just have to be sick of it all.. and not care. It really doesn't matter how good the company is, or how well they treat you. When you're burnt out you just don't want to deal with any of it anymore. You're sick of what you're doing, and you don't want any part of it -- no matter what they offer or how much they coddle you. Been there.. done that.