Questions tagged [burnout]
Questions relating to physical or mental stress caused by being overworked
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Assisting an employee to disconnect from work and prevent burnout
I am a manager (indirect to this person) in a small UK based company and work with a fantastic colleague/friend who is rapidly approaching complete burnout. The job is non-physical, involves data/...
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Short-term options to mitigate burnout and demotivation while working with painful colleague
In summary, I've been a tech lead on a project for over a year now, and during that time I've worked almost exclusively with one developer, who is probably one of the worst I've ever worked with (...
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How to recover from exhausted patience?
In my previous organization, the team I was on had to work with several other teams that left a bad taste in my mouth. Over the course of several years, upper leadership eventually took notice and ...
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I feel like I was set up for disaster, multi-year project at first job is doomed. Advice?
Throwaway and some generalized details for obvious reasons. But the gist of it is, I was hired as a developer for a non-tech company as one of its first members in that department(no other tech roles)....
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Burnout? How to make it manageable for the next 6 months? [closed]
I think I have a burnout. Since I joined my current company I've been on the same project. It's a typical situation of "you have no power to decide anything, but you're responsible if the project ...
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How to convey staffing issues to burnout-causing boss?
I have been working for a small business for 15 years on a part-time basis. Over the years I have seen a considerable turnover of staff, some of which I believe has been down to my boss (business ...
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How can I convince my manager that I am overloaded?
I'm in my first year as a team lead, and the team I'm managing is mostly new employees who have all been hired in the past 6 months so they haven't gotten to a stage where they're comfortable with all ...
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Found out I don't make overtime pay - would it be taboo to charge for hours over 40 without permission? [closed]
I'm three months in as a tech lead for a relatively small (~100 people) but successful and grounded consulting company in a major U.S. city. Due to poor requirements gathering coupled with ...
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What to do when a manager is constantly assigning you new things one after another?
I think most of us have all been there. You have a manager who one day suddenly assigns you some complex work which needs picking up lots of different technologies (8+). They give you a reasonable ...
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Manager on stress leave, what to expect?
I work for a big corporation in a major city. My old manager, who was the head of the team (10+ people), has been signed off from work back in late 2020 for burnout/ stress. I have since then been ...
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What do I do if I can't seem to find interest for any job in my field (software development)? [closed]
I am having some major existential issues in regards to my career. I don't know if there is a true answer to this question, but I'd be grateful to receive any thoughts, experiences, or questions to ...
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Should I quit my job because it's burning me out?
I am full-stack developer for a company that I'm working for almost 2 years. I really like my job and the people that I'm working with, but from a few months I have this weird problem, that I have to ...
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How do I push back against upper management "innovations" and simple "requests"?
It has beeen a long time since I've asked a question, however the narrative to my question is quite simple:
How do I push back against upper management "innovations" and simple "...
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Should we help a colleague against his will?
I am working in a team of 20 people, in which we all get along quite well.
One of our colleagues has a very heavy workload he cannot share, and has had a few professional setbacks lately, and is ...
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Burnout - change industries?
I am a data analyst in the public sector and have been in various guises for the past 8-9 years.
I am currently pretty well burnt out in my current role - all motivation has disappeared, work quality ...
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Motivation has dropped partly due to pessimistic views on work in general - burned out?
I've been in my current role for about three years, after graduating from University. I haven't really been impacted by COVID work-wise because I'm a software developer so I can WFH.
Lately I've been ...
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How do I deal with a team member who regularly makes breaking changes?
I'm a senior developer in a mid-sized business. We are split into multiple sub-teams with specific roles for each. My allocated team's responsibility is for the day to day running of services and bug ...
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What can I do after work to deal with burnout? [closed]
Already exercising a hour and looking for a new job, quitting currently would not be possible. But I still find my job unbearable and want to just stand up and leave every hour. I can't even focus on ...
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How to fix badly negotiated salary?
Last year I was on the edge of a burnout. In hindsight it was because I was working in a toxic workplace. But through lack of experience I was not able to see the red flags. There have been cases of ...
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How to properly ask for extension on assessment projects
I have been trying really frantically to apply for a software engineering internship for my university graduation requirements, which I have never secured one before, and for most jobs that reached ...
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Messed up at work and don't know what to do
I have been working for one year on a data science project, from finding the stakeholder and the work to running A/B tests and finally to productionising the project. Part of running A/B tests ...
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7th month pregnant partner gets overworked by her firm, exceeding 70h/week work. What can a future father do?
My pregnant partner has is currently in her 7th month of pregnancy and due in 10 weeks in the US. In short, she got much more work responsibilities in the last few weeks at her company, exceeding 70h/...
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Working in the software industry does not seem rewarding anymore
I was always an ambitious, jack-of-all-master-of-none kid with above average skills and interest in technical topics. Working for the software industry was always looked upon from where I grew up and ...
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How to avoid mental suffering knowing that I have no resources (time, etc.) to fully satisfy client needs?
Client has changed the usage patterns (pre-holiday effects before the long Christmas holidays) of the software developed and supplied by the company for which I am working and new errors due to ...
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I'm a C-Level executive at a startup that manages a team. I'm going through a rough patch of depression
So here's my question. I'm a C-Level executive at a startup that manages a team. I'm going through a rough patch of depression. I've also previously informed the CEO that I was leaving (months ago) ...
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Returning to the software industry after burnout
I want to return to the software industry after a two year hiatus. I worked in my first role as an Android developer for three years, then in my next role also as an Android dev for ten months, at ...
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How to deal with severe mental fatigue without taking time off?
I work as a remote software developer. I work on a casual basis from home, and I'm free to work as much or as little for my boss as I like, while billing my boss on a weekly basis for the worked time ...
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Can I leave in the middle of a project? (programmer) [duplicate]
I have been working here since I graduated, as a software engineer for approximately 5 years at this company. In the first 3 years I thought everything I went through was learning, even though the ...
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I'm struggling. Burnout over years and multiple companies - now come to a head at current company & not their fault - how to finally get ahead of it?
(I'm a contributor here already but created a throwaway account because I don't want it to be associated.)
Background:
I've worked here for about 18 months as a 'subject matter expert' in Technology ...
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Suffering from burnout - change jobs or take a break?
Some background:
I currently work in a small/medium company which was my first solid job after graduation (I had worked for a year in different temp roles). I have worked at this job for almost 3 ...
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Advice for Interview Burnout [closed]
I'm currently going through an extended period of job-hunting and as such I'm having a lot of interviews and finding them and the questions I'm being asked very repetitive. What are some strategies ...
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Negative vibes & environment at new workplace, is it normal? [closed]
I would just like to ask for opinions on this matter.
I started working at this company on new year (small company with 30+ staff). During my probation, I started to feel burnouts. FYI, I'm the ...
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Dealing with slow employees and stress; should I leave? [closed]
I currently work in an office environment. The times i work are 9am till 5:30pm. I have been working here for the past 8 years. I was promoted to manager of a certain department over a year ago. I ...
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Adapting a programmer CV to general work?
I worked as an Android Developer for a few years (it was the only work I ever did, from the age of 19 to 23), as such my CV is composed of 3 Android roles and nothing else. Doing this work has ...
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What is the correct way to express our disagreement with management about burnout?
I work as a contractor for a startup company that has a fast-paced working environment and aggressive goals. Budget is scarce, and management cannot spend on tools or new hires. To reach the proposed ...
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Exhausted by doing too many unrelated tasks
This is my brother's issue and I want to help him.
After a few months of jobless, He got a job last month at a small trading company(import or export goods from manufacturers then sell those in other ...
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How do I tell my boss I need to devote more time to school?
I have been working as a software engineering intern for the last 8 months or so. My job started in the summer, then continued into the semester. My employer's plan is to employ me part-time as an ...
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Too much reading/studying in senior engineer job
I'm recently promoted in a Canadian engineering company to a "senior engineer", which was very exciting for me (my company just has 2 levels of engineer, "engineer", and "senior engineer"), and ...
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I was asked to build an enterprise web application on my own, and am starting to feel overwhelmed
I came to my current place of employment as an contracted IT support technician of the most generic variety about a year ago. I had only an associates degree to my name and most of what I knew both as ...
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Struggling Senior Developer
I am senior developer (working as a consultant and manager) with over a decade of experience. I find that I enjoy helping teams with communication, learning about new ideas (architecture, patterns, ...
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How can I ask my manager to give me a break from the current project?
For past 4-5 months I've been engaged in an independent project in my company. What I'm building is going to be used internally. 4 months ago, a senior architect (now a non-technical upper manager) ...
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Mobbing by changing job requirements outside skill set?
First things first, I'd like to state a clear intention: I am not trying to post a rant, I just want to know if I am suffering some kind of mobbing. Thank you for your understanding beforehand.
I've ...
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Burning out from stress/pressure of role [closed]
High turnover in the team means I am now the only Scrum Master.
Senior Management are hesitant to let me take annual leave, which is understandable.
The trouble is, I am seriously starting to burn ...
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How to deal with manager who expects more than we can contribute?
I am in a very complicated situation:
I was hired 2.5 years ago at this company for a job I was not trained for but I was sure I could do it. I was very upfront about it at the interview and I was ...
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What should one do when his colleagues are pushing him out [closed]
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My SO works at a cars dealership
She is handicapped and can't spend all day making physical efforts
Her coworkers don't answer the phone, so she has to run around
Lady ...
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Studies proving that vacations need to be uninterrupted? [closed]
There was an article saying something like "if a vacation is interrupted, it no longer counts", and it backed that claim with studies. As I tend to agree with it more and more, I want to find that ...
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Should I take an offer that solves my problem, but giving my coworkers more burden?
I'm a Java web developer working for more than 3 years. I developed web apps but never did operations. Meanwhile, employees are getting out one by one, and an operation work came to me; Legacy servers ...
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How to keep motivation in a burnt out workplace while interviewing elsewhere?
I currently work at a company that's experiencing something of a mass exodus. Due to managerial issues, 5 of the best engineers on an 8 person engineering team have either left or put in their two ...
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Don't believe in company's direction, how to proceed? [closed]
For nearly a year now, I'm the lead programmer and architect of a very large and ambitious project in the company I work for.
It is a project that I do not believe in, and working on it is burning me ...
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How to ask to get back to previous department?
Last year in July, I started working for my current employer, a software firm with ±250 employees worldwide (just to get the picture). We are working on a client-server based software product, and I ...
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