> Have we taken our cynicism at work too far? > In some ways, our bad attitude makes sense. Many of us made work our church, only to end up laid off, burned out

> Have we taken our cynicism at work too far? > In some ways, our bad attitude makes sense. Many of us made work our church, only to end up laid off, burned out or underpaid. Now we check out, do less, gossip and snark. To me, this fundamentally isn't cynicism - it's burnout. Perhaps one could argue, cynicism is burnout on a longer time scale. If you call someone a cynic, most won't really understand; mildly offended. But when you identify it as "it looks like you burnt out 10 years ago in that project at XYZ and never recovered". I really identify with that. Humans are weird creatures and "undoing" internal narratives we've built for ourselves is very hard. Largely agree with the rest of the article.