Bunch of people having trouble finding work and then the people who do have jobs are being burned out from being overworked. Look at what we have done to ourselves. Hopefully we figure something out soon. Also, if you are reading this and you are going through a tough time right now, I just want to say that I appreciate the fact that you are still here fighting for life like the rest of us. I hope that as you continue to go through the process of life that you find the peace and happiness you are looking for. I also want to thank you for anything positive that you have ever done for yourself and others no matter how big or small, it all adds up. KEEP GOING!!!!
Really appreciated this documentary. I took sick leave for burnout last year. Went back, found nothing had changed, nobody really cared about the root causes of why me and so many others were burning out in the organization. Finally, I submitted my resignation letter just this month. Everything about the way we work needs to change, especially treating people like people and not human resources.
When I was a freelancer I had boomer clients who were millionaires that tried to convince me I should work for them for shares in companies that dont exist or good word of mouth... in other words work for free... these are the people that run the world today.
I had thé same, but managed to gather enough strength to résist quiting and i could bé lay out 7 months later with a 24 week salary amount. Thé best outcome possible actually. You only start to heal when you are removed from thé environnement.
We should stop using the term "submit resignation", which has the odor of defeat, subservience. Instead, send an e-mail to the employer, "I've decided to terminate your status as a recipient of my services effective immediately".
No we aren't ahahahahaha. I see so often 20 people doing what could be one person's job. What happens is that a lot of people are busy with creating work for themselves so they can pretend to be relevant.
and then as "thank you" they say "market is bad, we won't raise anyone salary, even though inflation is 10%, but we did raised our dividends by 7%. Be happy!" (we are at the cynical part 😉)
A job honestly doesn’t gives you the time, space and opportunity to chase your dreams and achieve your goals. From personal experience i can tell you working a serious job is modern day slavery. they pay you a small amount for doing a significant amount of work and promises you promotion. Best advice make investments and take calculated risks that would guarantee your success.
This is really not as difficult as many people presume it to be. It requires a certain level of diligence, no doubt, which is something ordinary investors lack, and so a financial advisor often comes in very handy. That is how people are able to make such huge profits in the market.
The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment
This is spot on. Could not be more accurate. 30 Years in corporate management and I hated every day. Hated the job, the company, and most of the people I worked with. Sunday afternoons my mood starting changing knowing tomorrow was Monday. Sunday night I could not sleep knowing tomorrow was Monday. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I was wishing it was Friday. I pissed away my life doing what was “right” by other peoples standards
My estimate is that for every productive job/worker there's at least three people (but probably a lot more) who make a living supervising, taxing, managing, controlling and critiquing that person.
@@Jaime-eg4eb Vast majority is an over statement. You do not truly understand how vast and complex the world is. You litteraly cited both supervise and manage which are arguably the same thing. It undermines the credibility of your assertion because even if you did not intened it too; it still comes across as incompetence based exagurration.
@@physetermacrocephalus2209 Your critique is the only thing here that seems incompetent. Two words I used are arguably the same thing? Who cares? I don't think saying "vast majority" is an over statement at this point in history. We have endlessly deep bureaucracies and layers of management that do nothing but get in the way of people trying to get things done. Meeting after meeting just to justify someone's job.
I went through that several years ago. I wanted to get injured enough that someone else would carry the burden of my responsibilities. Pretty low state to be in.
I have gone through that as well. I have friends who had a similar experience. I had to change work to realize how badly my previous work was for me. I’m sorry you’re going through it.
I was going to work and was involved in a motorcycle accident which i suffered a broken femur. My employer decided to terminate my contract because at the moment I'm recovering. I don't know what I'm going to do...
Bring to light? Or bring to media? Every company has people who speak truth to power and all they get a little bonus in the end. A big fat boot. The ideology that transpires from most managers and CEOs seems to be “fake till we make it”, or at least “fake it until the end of my mandate, then it’s someone else’s problem”.
I've actually rejected promotion the past couple of years. I am an engineer and just want to design, develope and build things. But I've been at the same role for years, so management wants me to move "up", to lead teams and projects, even though I have explicitly said I am uncomfortable doing that because those tasks gives me social anxiety. So, what happened? I wasn't promoted, which was ok, but my performance grade was also lowered cos of the perception that I was unwilling to contribute more. So I don't give a f anymore. If I'm disengaged, it's this stupid way of performance management that actively disengages workers, and not that the workers are inherently lazy or incompetent.
I am the cad drafter for said engineers and I am so over it. I cannot draw one more line and the same thing is happening to me. Everything is always due yesterday and it's exhausting. These firms keep taking on more jobs than they have resources for and I am the one stuck trying to issue construction packages on a Friday-officially the worst day ever. I am not interested in training others especially if they are getting paid more than me, nor am I interested in creating better procedures for mass distribution. Working from home from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep I have no life. Those drawings are not created by elves it's not magic.
OMG brother i feel you. Its the exact same with me. Its this bs culture of if ur not a manager in a couple of years you are not good enough is just exhausting
I did move up in position, talked into it by people around me. I did it for several years and absolutely hated it. I recently stepped back down to where I was before. Hugely controversial move! Only two people in the history of the organization have done it, and I’m one. People don’t know how to respond to someone stepping down rather than going up the ladder.
@@dcamnc1I was promoted to middle management position 1 and a half year ago and I hate every day of it. Got all sorts of stress and anxiety irritable bowel sydrome and migraine because I'm doing the work of 2-3 people with not enough staff and the one staff I have is lazy and runs away all the time which stresses me out even more. I really admire what you did because some position and money is not worth losing your mental and physical health. But I'm planning to stick around for few months since they promised things will get better otherwise I will find another position which is not managerial. Anyways I just wanted to say I totally understand your point and its good that you stood up for yourself.
It's the same everywhere in large companies. If you don't evolve to help the company by allowing them to extract more value from you, they will want you to leave to replace you with someone they can control.
I’m watching this 4 months after quitting from a terrible office job because of a terrible burnout that crushed me completely. I’m 29. It felt like I failed in life. But now I’m starting to think that I will do whatever I can just to not work in a similar job ever again, including changing my career path completely. The system just grinds us, I prefer making less money for a couple of years and creating my own business or path so that I can keep my sanity, rather then be a clog in the machine.
truly understand your feeling bro. After I quit my old job at a big corporation, I felt like I had a serious trauma that I didn't want to have any social contact, I just want to isolate myself to let all the physical and mental wound heal. I then applied for some lower-paid jobs, doing normal stuff but my mind would be stress-free. I had no idea what to do next, but life is a marathon and I couldn't run at the sprint pace to finish that marathon.
I am in the same situation and I have the exact same thoughts. Also thinking of switching my career because I can’t stand the thought of going back to a job where I have to sit behind a desk fulltime doing meaningless work
It helps to realize that burnout is a form of depression, and that simply being in an office all day long in itself is a contributing factor to depression. Being inside all day, no unfiltered daylight, no fresh air, sitting still all the time, staring into a screen... None of that is helpful, and if you don't enjoy the work itself, getting mentally ill is almost a given.
This is literally me... I'm 29... I quit last week of a job of 7 years because every single day a woman in management was constantly negative from 8am until 5pm without stopping. Just horrible and nasty, going on and on and on, making work feel like it was more important than life itself. I couldn't stand it any longer. I didn't even want to live.
Burnout happens to people who have a work ethic and responsibility. It ends up biting you on the ass in the long run. Today is my last day after 28 years at my workplace. Luckily I have months of leave owing so I don't need to work straight away. Sick of all the stress that should be the owners, not mine. I'm not putting my life on hold anymore waiting for others to get their acts together.
That is what is happening to me. In the whole office, only three people working while the rest are watching videos on TH-cam. On top of that, they complain about a boss sending a reminder about work etiquette because they behave like pigs in the office. Free riders are everywhere and they love to boss people around !! The laziest the bossiest
Agreed. As a lower-level employee the company’s success ultimately hinges on your performance. A manager might have an impact but you can still do good work in spite of a bad manager. You can’t get good work done if the actual workers don’t care.
Did we, as a civilization, really expect anything less to happen when we exchanged the gold standard for a system of currency counterfeiting? How does the type of money that we use influence everything we build on that economic base-layer? Has anything been developed recently that can bring us back to a sound money society and corresponding human values? Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto 🙏
My boss recently said he didn't want to rise any higher in the company because at a certain point your only remaining contribution is to tell other people to work faster
32:08 this moment right here. The face that toddler makes when the crayon is taken away. That moment spoke to me so much. I like my job. I like the feeling that I can make an impact on the world. But every time I have a manager that tells me I can’t do it “this way” and I have to do it their exact way, I feel like my soul is being squeezed out of my body.
It took burning out myself to notice that most everyone around me at the office is burned out too. It explains a lot. Still not sure how I'm getting out of it, but am finally realizing it's time for something different. Life's too short to be miserable.
You only have so many hours remaining. I always suggest that people utilize them wisely. What that means differs for everyone, but it's still important to Reflect upon the idea seriously.
that will create a problem. this is why we have inflation. WHEN KNOWLEDGE leaves = things get expensive. The consumer pays the cost of mistakes made. inexperience workers creates alot of havoc and costly errors down the pipeline. AND you cannot fire them because workforce is so tight. Inflation
I couldn’t agree more. When the doctor explained to me I was displaying classical symptoms of burnout, it dawned on me that my colleagues were also going through the same phenomenon; wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
If one exceeds management's expectations, that becomes the new expectations. Therefore, never do more in one day than you're willing to do every day thereafter.
@@taurus8263 yeah, that's the worst part about it. It's the most optimal decision for workers not to work hard because you don't get much for being a "good" worker. This is a bad situation for the economy.
Burnout victim here. I learnt to focus on everything I was taking in each day, basically my ‘daily diet’. Not just the food I was eating, it was everything my eyes would see, sounds I would hear, thoughts I would think of, the places I went, the people I talked to, the activities I did. To have a healthy diet, I needed to make sure that I was taking in healthy actions each day. Good luck out there
I am learning the same lessons right now... add to the list, - other people's energy. I wasn't aware of how the things on your list affected me on a daily basis.
Basically, live in your job at the pace that feels natural. After having burned out a few times myself, I decided that now I work at my pace. If the job increases what that pace should be, I do not increase my pace of working in order to save myself from burnout. Sure, they'll get me to leave one way or another, but I'm never giving myself to their greed ever again, because I don't have to. I have enough money invested that I never have to sacrifice my health to make them rich.
Burnie here too, it feels like resetting everything and having to reeducate the approach we have to life. it's like a second chance in a way, even though it's super tough.
Considering that this video came in only few hours ago, how popular it is already, says a lot on how we all feel about this topic, how really concerned most of us are. A hundred years ago, people had to fight, real fights, for improving their conditions, with real claims, and now, we just don't f****g understand what's going on, it's all about respecting budgets and standards, while HR send weekly emails on how to take care of our mental health.
HR send those emails about mental health things while trying their best to create an environment that goes against those exact words. Empty words at this point.
@@nothinginteresting1662 What really is the point of HR!? How do the even contribute? They are suppose to be on the workers side as well, but they just care about the company that pays them. Going against every moral fiber, if they even have any...
I literally have no words to describe the brilliance of this documentary. A greatly perceptive and discerning gaze at the modern white collar work life. A poignant portrayal of how our current economic system makes the top 1% richer at the expense of the rest of us- where the fruits of increased productivity goes to them and we are left alone to deal with the drudgery, stress, high housing costs and an existence greatly depleted of life.
I wonder how many C-suite managers see this documentary and say ‘eff it.’ To them their bonuses are more important than any life. Greed is the base of our current society.
I’m all for the reduction of CEO pay… but if they gave all their salary to these employees, it would be a drop in the bucket in most large companies. The problem here is much more complex than CEO pay. I know that doesn’t fit your narrative.
Greed of Americans is beyond any limits, to me it seems like kind of ideology, man talks and says nothing, those who listen just applaud him, is all mascaraed. It resembles more to communist ideology, even Chinese when they speak they tell things in much better way, trust me. Playing with words while saying nothing has become your way of life, and this will haunt you centuries probably millennias. 😂
@@99dynasty The goal should be to reduce or remove the C-suite roles. Short stories like Manna show this is possible already in many ways with the newly emerging AI technology (and some might argue that there was nothing to do in the first place for these people).
It would be an easy fix if it were only that, but there is whole adaptive group of sycophants who wish to become just like them for the small rewards. The detachment is ubiquitous. IMO although I’m confident. I offer no solution I comment because it fills me with regret watching it.
Not an office worker, but a warehouse worker. I got completely burnt out because of bad management and I had to quit. I just physically and mentally couldn't take it anymore. Its been 2 years and I still feel chronically burnt out. Some days I can barely get out of bed. This video speaks to me. People really should talk about burnout more.
Good God, it's like watching a documentary about my life. Each testimony hit close to home. I wish they had made this 13 years ago when I experienced burnout and felt like a failure. I speak openly about my experiency to ensure that younger colleagues are more aware than I was, and to make it clear that - as with any other health episode - there is nothing to be ashamed of. We are humans, not machines. Thank you for the documentary!
A lot of times, I sit back and think that people have the younger generations all wrong. They think the younger workers are lazy. In reality, I think they just see the pointlessness of most of the "work" being done, the time wasting like meetings that could be emails and "community at work" (whatever that is) and commuting- all for what, exactly? And they say, yeah. I don't want to do this. And they check out. I'm so right there with them. I'm a Gen Xer and definitely identify with the younger workers on this point.
Yep... it all comes down to justification for a paycheck. They have to give you something to do even though that something is really nothing. They also get control of your time and even more importantly, your mental health. 😳
I am a gen Z and really did not understand those pizza parties done by the management. I worked in some sport betting and they forced us to stay over time and the closing time was 22:00, I do not know this people and do not like them, not to mention it was clear they had favourites. After that so called party where I got shamed that I did not want to learn some dumb promotional stuff giving that I will leave in a week and for the manager telling us that having your period is no excuse to not come to work. After, that party they wanted us to come to work at 08:00 like??? And I arrived at home at 04:00. Working 12 hours shifts that usually were 14 hours unpaid with no lunch break. I sometimes worked 4 days in a row. Needless to say after that summer job I needed like a week of rest, just sleep and roting in bed to get better. After that I finally was myself again and could do other stuff I could enjoy. That was depressing and the old people getting mad at the younger generations for not working, but they are the first ones to report the most stupid and littlest of mistake to corporate. As a saying goes from my country, the greamripper is searching for them at home, and they are here betting the retirement money.
I agree. I think the younger generation realise the rituals in the corporate world are really quite pointless.. the people who are setting the rules as they have the advantage and it makes them feel important….
Listen, I agree with you! Like if we were able to work for 2-3 years and be able to afford a home, then I'm sure everyone would be happier and would try harder. People are working hard just to find themselves in the same position 2-3 years ago. No Progress. No growth. Inflation lowering the value of your money.. How can anyone feel optimistic in this environment after a while?
Oh boy, do I know about this. I was in a lot of physical pain working a normal office job. My soul despised what I felt compelled to do to survive. All I can say is: do everything you can to avoid getting in a lot of debt.
@@PneumaPianoGuitar Outside of your share of public debt, going to college is the main reason people acquire debt. It's unfortunate people are so strongly encouraged to do that. I certainly was.
The thing is you need money to make money. If education is expensive, minimum wages are low and you are born poor, what do you do? Work 3 jobs for 10 years to afford an education for a better job? Or do you borrow the money for the education and spend 5 years paying off the debt with a single job that pays better than the other 3 put together?
@@roxanamilea7683so true.. switching from large bank to startup nbfc.. it’s utterly horrible.. one feels lost as nothing in place.. too many loose ends..
Corporate jobs are really nasty! I had a few different jobs, but the absolute worst was at IKEA at their head quarters in Älmhult a few years ago, just before the pandemic. They remodeled the office to open space offices and everything that was personal was forbidden. So you were no longer allowed to have your own desk or have personal belongings at your desk. They constantly hade meetings about their leader (the founder, who was dead at that time) and praising him and the company like it was divinity. Furthermore the bullying amongst colleagues was savage! You were urged by the leadership to climb the leader, so everyone was stabbing each others back in order to get ahead. You were constantly brainwashed that you were part of some kind of IKEA family. I could continue all day about that nightmare! This documentary brought back memories and gave me the chills. Luckily I’m not there anymore, but feel sorry for the people with limited options what pay with their health and wellbeing in order to sustain themselves
Is so sad hear this because I thought IKEA it was revolutionary company, once it is Sweden "philosophy" , like balance between work and live, as you saying, this all is just a baloney 😢
There are so many amazing comments already, so I'll just add this: I feel incredibly seen watching this documentary and I will be sharing it with my family. Thank you!
I think this is why I, as an austistic person , struggle so much with doing mindless meaningless tasks in the workplace. Because it comes natural to me to analyze everything and try to make sense of what I am doing on the larger scope of the company/society. It's even harder when I find it makes no sense because my brain automatically shuts down the motivation to do it. This generally makes me end in an unmotivated loop of self-doubt about my abilities and purpose.
Yep, I understand where you're coming from. And now they throw in this wrench into the mix, don't include pronouns in your status reports. So basically, I now have to remove what other people have actually said and change words to match this woke ideology, basically attributing it to them. Our CEO told us to do this at our last meeting.
I worked at a public hospital in Sydney as a psychiatrist. I’d never previously met the clinical director for the service, who had invited me to meet him for an unrelated matter. Within five minutes, he identified that I had classic symptoms of occupational burnout. The hardest part of “suffering” from this condition is 1) accepting that it has happened to you 2) feeling you have to repeatedly try to explain and to justify yourself to your family and relatives, who more often than not perceive you as a “failure” and of having “given up” on your career. At the time I stopped working (coinciding with the pandemic years), I had been qualified as a MD for over 25 years and had worked within the field of psychiatry for 22 years so I can safely state that its not about giving up, it is about survival.
Very well said! Life, demands, work, stress, money… it’s no wonder that many of us are very near, or already in burn-out territory. We need a 4 day work week and a basic universal income now! (I’m in Switzerland, we work 41 hours or so).
@@MariaCarabin We need 20hr work week. With all that f’n technology this SHOULD HAVE happened already 10 yrs ago…. The most irreplaceable jobs remain of the nurses, cooks police military hairdressers farmers teachers and nannies along with plumbers electricians and builders. All of these “lower middle” class in the US should have been firmly in the middle class, being able to afford a MODEST single family home. Not a chance now. A 30yo nurse with husband in law enforcement barely could buy a very expensive modest house with both sets of parents help. Shame.
I’m another burnt out psychiatrist. I’m doing slightly better now than last year, but it feels like a roller coaster ride every week. I’ve always wanted to work with public healthcare, but it has been taking a toll on my health
@@ludmilamaiolini6811 thank you for also sharing your experiences. What also happens if you so much as dare to share that you’ve become “burned out”, your peers and colleagues more likely will shun you and there’s a good chance you’ll end up being supervised for being an “impaired clinician”.
I was studying to be a cop I seen how it broke people down, I then decided to work in hospitality as a bartender, gaming attendant, TAB Clerk all were simple jobs and no headache. At the same company I was promoted to HR Manager I was miserable. I knew I made a mistake and went back to being a TAB Clerk a person that processes horse racing. And I must say I have never been more happier 3 years into the job I come to work do my job and go home no worries at all. I don’t need to worry about reports and garbage like that. I save alot of money now as my goals are clear compared to when I was a HR manager I was stressed and spent all my money. Morale of the story is if you are not happy downgrade to a simple job you will feel better. Also to all the people out there DON’t GIVE UP ON LIFE!
Just left my job of 21 years in mid may of 2024. Waljed in one day and enough was enough. I wasnt feeling valued. Im 49 with a wife and four kids. 21,19, 11, and 8. I have enough for about 1 year in savings. Wife is supportive of my decision. Going to look into doing something that I feel excited, valued and enjoy.
@@Lissbirdssecond this. Eventhough I'm only in my 20's I'm already thinking of doing the same thing, at least for some period of time till I sort everything out. Just curious how you solved the money side of the problem
This video is so spot on in so many ways, too many to mention but the one thing that stood out for me was when they said that people in management who aren’t even qualified to do the job. Oh my god, that is exactly what I experienced.
I'm in my mid thirties and I've felt this way for at least the past 15 years. I don't think I have another 30+ years in me before retirement. I truly don't think I can do this that much longer.
@@KingGameReview I come from the tech industry as well, and I feel the same way. Most tech companies do not make any money from goods and services. Instead they make money from their perceived potential for exponential growth. If the perceived potential for growth is high, then venture capitalists will invest in the company. If things are looking bad (or if the company chooses to not mindlessly copy the moves of other major players), then VC will dry up. Product Engineers build features that nobody wants for products that nobody uses (under contrived but aggressive deadlines set by upper management) while R&D fakes demos to lie about how far the tech they're building is coming. All in the hopes that venture capitalists will throw a few pennies in the well.
Excellent documentary on the pointlessness of modern ‘work’ that keeps us busy without creating value or happiness. Featuring the late great David Graeber. Thank you!
My manager keeps complaining about nobody doing their work on time, but he schedules 5 meetings a week, which last upwards of an hour, to repeat the stuff we go over every day. Driving me insane. Literally had 3 stress-induced seizures on the job.
My workplace used to be that way. The managers were promoted/got better management jobs. Now we have a wiser older manager who can look into the economy system and see we have orderes to more than fullfill the budget and gives us time to make the work generating the income.
I have simply refused to be promoted. I find it unbearable to be in meetings , to be with people for whom money and boasting is everthing. How can one sit in a place where no body is sincere and have no humanity?
The worst about meeting is that nobody wants to hear the truth. If you dare to say what's really on your mind, or what really would make things better, you're not "thinking with the corporate mindset", and people will ask if the job is really something for you. It's what this video says, that people put on a smile and pretend that everything is alright.
I've had a lot of horrible managers. I heard once that the degree of psychopathy among CEOs was around 20%, versus 1% in the general population. It's probably higher since there's an incentive to hide those traits. Which means in general, the higher you go in the corporate chain of command, the more likely you are to encounter such individuals. That made me realize my success within a large organization will never be too big, since when I look at people I don't think of how I can use them to climb. It's very obvious to me that is the attitude that a lot of people at the top/middle have towards those around them.
I heard ceo psycopathology is %6, its rare, so rare, when you see it there is no doubt, you are the body they can dump in a swamp to run the business better and they surround themselves with people that look the other way, the remaining %14 may be on the spectrum.
Psychopathy ? Do we have to use such terms ? It's simply " I have got the power . I will do everything I can to hold onto it until the time when they come for me. Until then I will make your lives as miserable as I have to in order to keep my job" - It is survival , nothing more, nothing less, and you would do the same if and when you become a manager.
@@eddenoy321 it's not my opinion, it's a technical word used by psychologists. I agree, that's what happens. That's why I think it's such a horrible idea for most of us to be employees instead of having our own business/farm like we all used to until recently. Human nature is what it is, we can only change our social systems.
@@Jaime-eg4eb Agree with you. I just don't like psycho=babble terminology and I have little faith in modern psychology. It is almost like religion for me. But that's me.
The way society rewards work and people is lopsided. It’s the source of disharmony across most aspects of life. But you can’t change it. You can only change yourself and work towards resiliency
@@Heyu7her3He didn't have that "privilege" - he had to work normally and was writing in his "free time"...he was also quite unknown and became (a little bit famous when he was an old man...
I spent a third of my time at my last job doing unnecessary, repetitive trainings, reading endless emails, filling in timesheets for myself and my reports, justifying the time I actually did real work, attending meetings, etc. It was exhausting and demoralizing. My coworkers and I wanted to get real work done, not do busywork.
I don't think I could go back to a timesheet job. I worked a government job that required it after basically all my others didn't and it felt so demanding and awful and I was a pretty model employee.
I'm also on a timesheet job. The expectation is to work like robots. If we take breaks or a job requires more time than actually allocated, we have to stay back to cover those hours. They won't pay overtime. The worst part is that our manager is hopeless. I want to make this year last at KPMG.
I am nearly one year in recovering from burnout. It such a shocking thing to have gone through, I completely fell apart the moment I left work. I had been trying to make it work and "fix" me, but there are SO many points in this documentary that gives so many of the answers why this happened. My employers (I've been with the company for a decade, gave everything I had and then an ownership changeover occurred) don't believe that I broke down, doubt they would believe in this kind of burnout. I wish I could send them this video, print the transcript and highlight all the points....maybe then they would see? Doubtful. And it scares me for future employment. Thank you for this documentary and bringing these stories and poor operations to light. So much needs to be done.
No one mentioned the fact that it takes two incomes to make less money than one income used to do. The string-pullers realized that if they break up the family, you get twice as many workers for the same price.
It has nothing to do with breaking up the family, it's just good old capitalism. Keep squeezing prices, if women get autonomy and economic freedom, well, squeeze more. The wrong conclusion to take is "well see women shouldn't have had economic freedom".
@@unixtreme not to mention that women have always worked. At home and in the field at first and then at factories once industrialisation started. Women did not get a right to work, they've been working before, but to own money and property. It also shows that men just don't value women's work inside the house, if it's not paid with money it's not work.
@@theneonpython that was my conclusion, that he didn't mention it. The left, being pro-gubermint being in charge of everything, doesn't want any competition from things like families or churches or even state gubermints.
Workers rights have been eroded over the last seventy years. There is essentially zero check and balance on the demands or whims of management. That's where it went wrong. You can have an incompetent or sadistic person whose personal preferences completely destroy a team, company, or industry. The 24/7 communication technology hasn't helped either, but it's 100% a worker/manager power imbalance issue destroying work satisfaction today.
Seriously? Unions have never been more powerful, especially in union government jobs where they get fat paycheques for their employees who perform well below the private industry and are impossible to fire for incompetence.
Amazing documentary. Clear and straightforward about a contemporary phenomenon everyone knows, but no one cares enough about to fix. Even provides new information about the actual cause. The most effective sign of this self perpetuating self sabotage is that this documentary won't make a bit of difference, which is equally amazing because this is so harmful to people. We are all so callous.
@@DWDocumentary Despite my cynical and purely personal outlook. I thank the good people at DW for bringing plenty of light on this subject (love most of your docs). There should be more, for we lose too many good people to this.
I've felt burnout too and it's not pleasant, I quit my job in 2021 due to burnout, got another job in 2022 and it was just the same cycle. Being stuck in this rat race we call life you need a job but jobs come with a myriad of stresses and unhappiness. It's funny how as humans we create illusions that just seem to make our lives miserable.
200% agreed! yep it's just a broken system breeding broken people into slavery. this is started at a young age of 5 at school which is when we enter "the system" for life!
I worked at a company, in the technology department, here in the Dominican Republic, from 2019 to 2021, when I resigned due to burnout. I remember that on my first day, the person who was my superior told me, 'You are a rat.' I should have left the company that very first day, but because of my financial situation, I stayed for two years. From that first day until the end, there wasn’t a day that this person didn’t insult me or make my life a living hell. I had nightmares, lost weight, and experienced panic attacks. In the end, I had to resign. My life was never the same again. To anyone going through a similar situation, I understand you perfectly.
For a time I volunteered for additional responsibilities at work. I was very much engaged and felt good about it. I had the opportunity to learn more about different divisions. Best of all, I got the chance to connect with many people within my organization. I arrived early and stayed late to manage the "volunteer" responsibilities. My entire yearly review centered around one situation in which I neglected to respond to someone following my return from vacation in a timely manner. No one was harmed as a result of the delayed response. I shared how I used my time to improve the organization. I was told if I wanted a raise, I'd need to improve my response time. BASED..on one incident. I checked out and haven't checked back in. I do my primary job and absolutely nothing more. EXCEPT! I am far more involved with community projects. I no longer volunteer at work.
I have seen a lot of people enjoying meetings, so that people may feel their presence. I agree with you. Meeting should be the least important and loathsome act.
DEHUMANIZED. That's what we all are right now. Turned into cogs of engines with only a trickle of oil. If we don't fix this, the engine will explode. 😥
Their fix is to replace the cogs with workers that dont burnout: automation. I'm in a team at my firm that helps teams automate their work and I realized I'm not doing society a favor. I need to get out.
I had a hysterectomy last year. Although I could have waited, I needed a break so bad. I got surgery just so I could take a significant time off of work. And it was the absolute best 8 weeks of my life. I got enough sleep. I didn't feel like a zombie or on autopilot. I had time to think. I really wish I had a slower paced job or less stress
I was also thinking that if I need an elective surgery to do it right before Thanksgiving so that I can finally get holidays off. I always have to work holidays as a Nurse.
Spot on! This video has captured the essence of today’s corporate culture. Fortunately, for the most part, the younger generations seem to be questioning the status quo.
The microsoft teams notification sound still gives me ptsd to this day, anyone who has worked an office job will know, still, office jobs are 100x better than any retail or hospitality job, and thats a fact
I guess that depends, I have seen retail shops where work is moderate most of the day, and the employees may even have some chit chat while they are folding their clothes, but I;ve also seen the exact opposite: a huge store with few people that try to complete everything. The latter happened to me today, haven't felt so bad in a while.
That's only when money is invovled because the latter jobs do not pay well. If I had a choice without worrying abiut the pay, I would absolutely switch to a hospitality job as that's where my personality fits better, not this dog eat dog corporate world where humanity goes to die.
For me it’s slack. Everytime I hear that click I literally want to end myself. I turned the sound and notifications off at work so that I could concentrate on my work only for my higher up to tell me I’m not answering all the messages I’m receiving or being linked to. Now I’m only helping finishing other people’s problems instead of finishing my work.
Work burnout can have devestating consequences for your health, if you ignore it for too long. That happened with me. I worked a government job for 15 years, and ignored the warning signs of severe burnout. The consequences to my health caused me to have to leave my job before I was ready to do so. Don't make the same mistake. Know the warning signs, and don't be afraid to get some help.
@@shawbrothers18 Nope. 8yrs on from my severe burnout and I'm struggling with burnout again after trying to hold on to a part time job for the last 4.5yrs. I'm physically exhausted all the time and my body can't handle stress anymore. Jim is not kidding you when he said it 'can have devastating consequences for your health'.
One of my coworkers told one of the managers that he was struggling with burnout. Well…he was told it was his fault and was shamed. Then that manager started gossiping about how he was suffering from “burnout” and it was his fault because he didn’t know how to do his job well. He had been there for 6 years!!
Hopefully they left the job. I would say it’s time to look for something new, that’s no way to treat anyone but I worry that they genuinely believe what they are saying because they have to justify their behaviour somehow.
@@marys3738 I am really glad to hear that you are leaving and putting yourself first, no money in the world is worth the health repercussion and the burnout. I went through burnout myself recently and have quit as well, here is to finding something better that doesn't end up burning us out :)
Thank you for making this documentary and making it available on TH-cam. As it was pointed out, we all feel this but don't discuss it and business goes on. This documentary put my thoughts so well into words, supported with data and empathy. It's been Impactful for me, thank you.
This is the most relatable documentary I've ever seen. I really thought i was the only one struggling with burnout. All these people's stories are MY STORY! it especially become difficult to work when the pandemic hit and we started working remotely. My manager was absolutely horrendous and the fact that i worked from my room, it felt like she was attacking me personally, since she was literally in my house in team calls everyday screaming and yelling over everything that i did. It was never ending until I had to speak up for myself. It was a complete horror and after that job i immediately found another job, without fully recovering from that horrible manager. It made me deal with stress really badly. i still cringe every time i hear a teams call or a sound of email notification, thinking it's her contacting me again to yell at me. I feel like i need a year off work to completely recover. But i can't afford to take time off work, especially in this economy. The American dream in its demise. Sad reality we live in.
I was raised in the nature as child and I didnt learn anything in the scholl until 13 years old. At 15 I started to analize things and use my imagination.
The crayon baby was enjoying his crayon and focusing on the task, then they took it alway from him and his whole purpose diminished. At first he was like can I have it back? With no response, then he looked around like what do I do now? His whole hope diminished on his face This is how we feel at work. Lets remove the things you enjoy, and guide you into what you should be doing (based on someone else's idea) then add in later more things in the things your doing. Then when you say it's too much "ohh then you are not good enough and people would be so happy to do your job and you should be fortunate you even have that job". With the problem of them giving you more tasks is the real issue not the fact that someone has to grind harder to finish them
We're living in a house of cards --- how much longer before it all comes tumbling down? My entire life I was told I needed just one more thing to be "successful." First it was a high school diploma, then it was secretarial school, then it was a BA, then it was an MA. By the time I'd finished all that, while moving multiple times, working to support myself, and looking after ill relatives, I was in my 40s. I've been playing catch-up my entire life. And it's all been a lie. Even tho we have some stability now, we're only a few paycheques away from losing what we have. In all my various jobs I had very few where I felt I had agency or any positive feedback. But when it does happen it's amazing! Imagine what we could accomplish if the majority of our working life was like that?
This video just validated my thoughts I’ve been having for the past three years where I realize jobs are only important because people give it value. If people don’t give it value, people are not gonna care about it. Because of this thinking, I give my job as much attention as I think that it deserves. I don’t put all of my waking hours into it. I don’t put all of my free weekend time into it , my job pays me for x amount of hours and then that is what I will be doing. If I can do it in less than my x amount of hours then that that is what I will do. I take my job seriously, but I have to constantly remind myself that what I do is not life-threatening, it can wait.
Yesterday I had a cry crisis after arriving home from work, I cried for 1 hour desperately, completely alone at home, without capacity to think, felling myself so miserable. The office work environment is toxic, damage our soul, we have to pay bills, no way to get rid of it😢
I don't know you, but I understand you. Because also I work in a corporation. On accountant position. Very draining tasks and environment. Stressful. Actually, stress became a normality, so it became normal to feel stressed even when you don't have a clear reason at the moment. And nobody out of that environment can understand you:) All of them say that it is on you to put boundaries. I feel positive last days, after weeks of feeling very down. There are ways to deal with all. It doesn't become easy then, but you become more able to handle it. My first advice is; be good with everybody, but trust fully to nobody and don't become too close with anybody. Second advice: Be good in Something. Cleverly choose what. I can take my example. I am averagely intelligent person, I need time to digest information and new things and just then become good with handling them. I am often not somebody who will jump like a lion into sth and right away do it impressively. But with time, I become very good. So, to fulfill that gap between starting sth and becoming good, I try to be very fast with solving things that I already know and are easy to me. Company always noticed that. So, find your own joker card! It must be sth easy to you to deal with it and noticeable to those ones above you. Etc. Wish you well!
I wish I could give you a hug. All I can say is, I understand. And believe me, it's not you, it's them and their toxic work culture. Wishing you the very best
Avoid attaching yourself to anything which means you have to work more or be a slave e.g. high mortgage, expensive wedding or holidays, expensive cars etc. Things that mean you become a endentured slave to pay back. Equate ever dollar to a drop of your soul lost.
7 years ago I quit my job, and moved into a motorhome. Best decision of my life. My only recurring bill nowadays is 10 EUR for mobile internet each month. A little bit of diesel I pay for when I want to switch location. My new life has enabled me to work on average just a couple of months per year, and still save money lol. What I am trying to say is if you quit the bills you can quit the slavery too. Once you've had a taste of life in total freedom there's no going back.
There were so many points in the documentary that I identified with my current job. As a nurse I hear “healthcare heroes” or frontline worker we support you but if I look back there is no one there to really truly support me and prevent burnout. I’ve been in burnout for a few years now and I’m trying extra hard to find true meaning in my role. I can see that I’m not the only one. Thank you for putting how I feel into words with the science to back it up. 😊
What’s missing here, though, is a discussion on solutions and the urgent need for systemic change. It’s time to address this issue and create healthier work environments for everyone.
It is impossible things have gone too far, detoxication takes centuries or even millenia is deeply rooted to your soul that is transmitted to otehr generations. There is no cure for that as easy as you say.
Before you discuss solutions, you need to properly understand the reasons. DW is a German news outlet. Over a long time now we have falling standards in schools, meaning a lot of people who shouldn't even have qualified for universities find themselves in intellectual careers they are not cut out for. Since 2015 we are struggling with uncontrolled mass migration, which keeps wages low and taxes high. On top of that Africa and Asia are increasingly supplying themselves with stuff, so all that fancy money that made the middle class rich a few decades past is now staying there and helping these people to get their slice of the pie. The best thing really is to move on when you can't stand your workplace, and if the job as such stresses you out, maybe look for something simpler to do.
Idk, I just feel the system is toxic because we let it be toxic. How about companies pay in perpetuity a percentage of all AI/machine generated work to those who actually created them? Or idk, in perpetuity to the state who gave tax breaks for various investments, which then gets re-distributed to people? I'm sure there are solutions and a 100 year old paradigm of 40 hrs per week ain't it. I'm pretty certain groups of people can figure out solutions, it doesn't have to be or should be a sole individual's contribution or idea, as it's a massive undertaking
"I feel like I was something, and then I was shaped into, suffocated into, being something else, something less, something smaller" Thank you DW for sharing this with the world. It has already impacted at least one person profoundly, so thank you.
The man talking about his burnout smyptoms - i've gone through that in the last months. I thought i knew "exhaustion", but the severity of it was new to me. I thought i had a terrible illness, went to my doctor, he couldn't find anything in my blood or during general examination that pointed to so much as a flu. He sat down and talked to me for a bit and eventually went "you're showing all the signs of burnout". To which i literally said " Oof" because all the air just left me. It was a surprise to hear, but shouldn't have been. I've been crying at work alone in my office daily. I cried on the train to work, on the way home. I blamed myself for it all because i thought i wasn't cut out for the hybrid office/social work job i occupied. But i made a joking remark to a colleague i got along with well and i saw her mask slip. She was just as done and fed up and mad as i was. My contract ends in a few weeks. The question "what now?" is so big that i can barely wrap my head around. I feel out of options. I worked in retail, i worked in service, i worked in an office. I can't imagine myself finding a low-stress occupation that pays enough to cover rent and have me ending my shifts with my sanity intact. Where to go from here? I don't know
Don't give up, and do your best to stay positive. I resigned from my job about a year ago after 12 years of working for them. I was thinking about it for about a year until i started having health issues due to stress and I just "gave up". I became a misarable person taking pills for depression to "survive" each day. I know how stressful it can be, but trust me, you won't regret it! Once you calm down you will see that there are options! Best of luck!
I had a light burnout and could start work after 6 months. But looking back it was an insightful experience which put me on a path. After that I had a small company for a few years, started and quit many jobs so did 2 trade courses and kept having faith in finding a job that would be worthwhile. Now I am 46 and have found my dreamjob as a Sales tech for a small informal company that really fits me as a person who loves travel and working with people. Don't worry , keep having faith and you will find your place too at a company that sees your value!
Great documentary. This has also happened in universities and the whole educational sector. In our research we have called this “affective subjectivation”, which exactly points to how we are governed affectively to become machine. Thanks DW!
This is a valuable documentary. This rings truer than anything I see on the news of hear on the lips of politicians. Something needs to change, this meaninlessness and wage slavery is indicative of a broken culture. Thanks for making this film.
i find sciences very attractive these days. I am a jaded Tax accountant and i am exhausted . For me its physics and chemistry . i am saving up for open university as i can't do the full time thing . I gots to pay bills and put hot meals on the table . The only person in my House that can keep a secret is our Dog .
@@PHlopheyou bloody do it pal, make sure you applied for that OU degree FFS. I was you, an ex-accountant now. I bailed from that career of 9 years from burnout. Now looking at the trade route, and hoping to do a OU degree, but torn between electrical engineering or pure science.
@@DrumToTheBassWoop accountant burnout is crazy.pure science is evergreen AI can never retire it as it is always flourishing.if i was you it'd be priority
@@PHlophe So should I pursue physics and maths instead of electrical engineering? As for accountancy, I'm and agent provocateur to that career path, I will actively dissuade people going that career path, it's not good for your mental health, honestly.
That’s honestly great. I’m currently looking into massage therapy school. I started in corporate America 2.5 years ago and I already hate every single aspect of it. I cannot see myself in this for another 40+ years.
The problem is the "non-work" a lot of employers are obsessed with. They expect you to work, even if there is no work to be done. A.e. what happens if you work from 9-5 but you are done with everything at 2. Instead of rewarding good and fast work via a merit based system, your employer will give you a meaningless task just so it looks like you are doing something. This leads to workers not even trying anymore after they expirienced this once or twice, leading to low work morale and sinking quality of the service/product and can also lead to a work enviroment where 5 people do in a day what one could do it 2 hours. The good old "You done wiping the bar? You still have 20 on the clock, so do it again!" Good work needs to feel rewarding. This is a very basic principle. And if i see the 5 people kicking the same bucket around for 3 hours while i do their job, yet im getting payed the same as any of them AND i get punished for it with even more work, then im obviously not gonna be happy with my job and refuse to do quality work in the future. And no, a "higher than average" pay won't justify or fix this.
This is so true!! Currently typing this while I’m waiting to see my GP because I’m experiencing a hypertensive crisis. Hopefully I won’t stroke out. THIS is the result of being a manager in an organisation that values figures above humans. But oh how they talk the talk! I’m in middle management, and I know the personal stories of all my team and try so hard to be fair, reasonable, and always available. Meanwhile getting pressure from above to increase figures, outcome measures, bla bla….I run 2 mental health outreach programs ffs! How’s the irony in that? Finance recently told me I should cut down vehicles. We work in remote communities! How are we supposed to get to our clients? Flap our wings? Geez, can’t afford to raise my BP thinking about it. The meetings, the reports… none of it matters. I fit in the percentage that is no longer engaged. I look after my team and clients and put no effort into all the busy work that is pointless and time consuming. Some I’ve stopped doing altogether. I get reminders, ignore them, nothing happens. Yes, I’m burnt out. I’m also alone, and can’t afford to stop working. Maybe I will stroke out, problem solved. We’ve lost our way 😢
After 17 years of working the 9-5, it cost me my health and then I straight up quit without a job prospect. My moment of truth was when I experienced a traumatic miscarriage and that night I was conflicted between a case I was working on and grieving. It wasn’t anyone’s fault but I realized that moment that I had my priorities all messed up. I left that 4 months later.
I was never the type to quit a job w/o another one lined up but I have also reached a point in life where I too was broken down as a person fm work & just couldn’t do it anymore & I did the same. We all have a breaking point. That’s when you know the low is low.. it’s not a good place to be in but I thank God for His saving grace towards me at that time, too. Not sure I could have seen the light any other way tbh. I’m sorry to hear that for you & hope you’re doing better now. Life is so hard sometimes. ♥️
Yep, had my wife flood my house while I was at work on a Sunday. I left work to tear out the flooring and call the crew and was back at work 2 hours later. Fun times. Oh, almost forgot, after my ineveitable divorce my son flooded the same house I spent my entire Christmas vacation installing the floor on.
I left the workforce in Feb 2022, a few months after giving birth to my first son. When my maternity leave ended, I lasted 2 months before I threw in the towel. I was miserable and missed my son every minute I was away. I started working super part time doing contract work for a small business which allowed me great flexibility. What I've realized that I desired more than anything was flexibility and the ability to start and finish a project and move no to something else. Must of my work, (HR) was so mundane. Same thing over and over, pointless meetings, goals constantly changing due to upper management, not feeling like my work was valued, etc. I've never been more happier since leaving the 9-5 work life. I am blessed that my husband makes a very good living which allowed me to leave in the first place. We just welcomed a 2nd son a few days ago and his is getting full pay for the next 6 months from his employer. Again, truly a blessing. I am not sure if I will ever have interest in going back to a 9-5 workplace, remote or not. Since becoming a mother, my values has totally changed. I cannot give an employer 40+ hours of my life when I do not feel like my work is making much of a difference.
First time mom to be in November and I'm already telling my husband I don't even think I can make it to maternity leave. I just do not care about work anymore and doing the long and hectic commutes everyday in our congested city. Once I get home I have about an hour to myself and my husband before I need to start getting ready for bed. I can't even imagine once a baby comes into the picture 😖 I hope to find something part time down the line like you!
Congrats on your 2nd baby. I have 2,5y old boy. Taking care of him till 4pm and we switch my my husband and I work from the 4pm or later sometimes. I work remotely but I feel I can't do that anymore. I tried different office jobs in my life, worked as an IT, Recrutment and Helpdesk. All of them giving me anxiety. Not sure what I'm gonna do next.
And yet the "diversity" gurus want more and more women in the workforce and in management positions. I do wish more women would start speaking up and telling employers that you want to spend more time with your family, not less.
I burnt out after sixteen years in the corporate world. I decided one day to just quite my job (I had some money behind me from a payout along the way). I thought to myself “I am either doing the best thing my life or the worst thing”. For years the verdict was out, But to cut a long story short? in the end it was the best thing I had done. I lead less affluent life but I’m so much happier and less stressed! I have time to look after my health now.
Work is like a combat arena, as it gives u that daily feeling of unnecessary competition with ur peers as we are forever assessed, insiduously rated via KPI set by mgt. No wonder, there's a constant state of dread as we go into the battlefield, where u r gossiped on, put under the bus, backstabbed and made to endure meetings with staff ever trying to showcase their worth by grandstanding, outshining each other. EXHAUSTING.... Anyway, i've resigned last May and now trying to heal my scarred state of mind and body.
The biggest problem in the workplace as I see it, is the employment of managers and executives who have no specialist or technical knowledge related to the service they are in-charge of, and are unable to make quality decisions. I even had a CEO say to the organisation he wants people managers in the executive team that don’t need any experience or technical knowledge in the areas they will manage or lead….no wonders they cannot make quality decisions….ie see Boeing in 2024!
i was unemployed for 10 years from 20 to 30 yo. These were the best years of my life, i lived off social benefits. Now im working and im shocked how miserable life is.
Being unemployed is the dream, man. I only work 8 months out of the year and cannot wait until my next break. Hoping to eventually get it down to 7 months on, 5 off, which including weekends is a perfect work life balance. 180 days on, 180 days off.
I do the bare minimum at my office job and always will. I never got credit all the decades I went above and beyond, and live by 'no good deed goes unpunished ' now. I only go in, work then leave. I'm not here for a popularity contest. I never participate in forced team building events or work outings. I never respond to texts outside working hours. I only go into the office part time. I'm too logical to be a full time slave. When I was, I was mentally unstable and always dreary. Nowadays, I work 3 days and play for 4. I finally feel balanced.
This docu is so so so relatable & I am sure every salaried person finds it so, This needs to be dubbed in every language so that it revolutionize the working conditions
This is the exact reason why I don’t have kids. Already tired from life to do anything especially having another precious life being victim of burnout.
i am very thankful, that i was able to watch this a few days after having the hardest work week i had ever experienced at my job. At the time, i was unable to define what my current problem was. Especially the unending feeling of exhaustion, the tardiness, the dread of work.
This was a great watch - very relevant. I do love how they included children in these settings; it truly reflects how we react when we are forced to do shit, how things like our creativity and individuality is taken from us etc. I feel like we're all just children forced into jobs and/or life paths that just aren't right for ourselves and healthy to the soul.
I didn't see any humor in this film. It's a devastating problem that never seems to be addressed. Maybe "humorous" is lost in translation. I'd call it a cynical and realistic look. Well done, everyone who worked on it. Thank you. Comes at a particularly critical time in my work life.
I left my job because I felt weak and disrespected there. My ex-boss thinks I'm incompetent. She was once upset I had signed up for a one-person shift, because she didn't think I could manage alone. She scolded a lower-ranking manager for not noticing I had signed up a coffee service. When she asked him if she thought I could do the shift, I answered for him with a firm "yes," because I felt belittled by her. She said she didn't think so, was all "I've told you not to sign up for shifts by yourself, I've been very clear about that, I don't know how much clearer I can get for you to listen" and she told me I need someone there to give me instructions and guide me. Sure, I'm a slow learner and have messed up at work before, but you got a lot of guts labeling and shaming a guy with learning difficulties like that. The fact that she trusted the newer workers to work alone but not me hurt, as did her willingness to indicate I'm inferior, no apology since then. I know her type. She didn't even respond to my two-week notice.
Excellent & insightful documentary - solves the mindset "Why me" ??.Many individuals including myself feel that "I am the only one who have the worst problems in life".
Excellent, excellent, excellent. One of DW's best. A must watch. Bet it describes alot of you. Love the way it's put together, especially the part with the babies in the office environment. Brilliant.
In Cantonese we have a saying that literally means "find eat". For those who have burnt out before. That is essentially all we need. Find food to eat and live a happy life. Unfortunately the world is screwed to a side that we will also need to "find a living place", "find partner", "find other enjoyment". All these added together need us work harder and harder or else we get overtaken. It is about what you can let go and accept to enjoy a happy life. Great documentary and guests who took part. Well done DW. Keep it up
The most important job (paid or unpaid)of caring for others both young and old is looked down on as unskilled and lazy. This should tell us how brainwashed we are. And for those who say well what about me I don’t have kids and don’t care about old people why should I care …….don’t worry some day you will need someone to care for you if you are lucky enough to live a long life.
Wow, brilliant work. I saw many parallels with my own life and yet I also finished it with a smile on my face. I wish I could have watched this 10 years ago before becoming a parent.
I went through a period of really, really serious burnout a few years back. I took some time off and that relieved the worst of it, but I didn't realize how bad it was until a few years after that when I finally got some real help.
Bunch of people having trouble finding work and then the people who do have jobs are being burned out from being overworked. Look at what we have done to ourselves. Hopefully we figure something out soon.
Also, if you are reading this and you are going through a tough time right now, I just want to say that I appreciate the fact that you are still here fighting for life like the rest of us. I hope that as you continue to go through the process of life that you find the peace and happiness you are looking for. I also want to thank you for anything positive that you have ever done for yourself and others no matter how big or small, it all adds up. KEEP GOING!!!!
Thanks for the words, I'm sad
You are kind and good, thank you for writing this. Have a lovely life
5 hours a day is ok ....5 days a week .....
Thank you ❤
Thank you ❤
Really appreciated this documentary. I took sick leave for burnout last year. Went back, found nothing had changed, nobody really cared about the root causes of why me and so many others were burning out in the organization. Finally, I submitted my resignation letter just this month. Everything about the way we work needs to change, especially treating people like people and not human resources.
I don't work in an office and I still feel burnt out
When I was a freelancer I had boomer clients who were millionaires that tried to convince me I should work for them for shares in companies that dont exist or good word of mouth... in other words work for free... these are the people that run the world today.
I had thé same, but managed to gather enough strength to résist quiting and i could bé lay out 7 months later with a 24 week salary amount. Thé best outcome possible actually. You only start to heal when you are removed from thé environnement.
We should stop using the term "submit resignation", which has the odor of defeat, subservience. Instead, send an e-mail to the employer, "I've decided to terminate your status as a recipient of my services effective immediately".
Wishing you the best of luck!
Problem is that now we are doing 3 people's jobs and getting paid for one.
But you're helped by computers and AI and your phone and whatnot. Also, I need you to be available 24/7.
No we aren't ahahahahaha. I see so often 20 people doing what could be one person's job. What happens is that a lot of people are busy with creating work for themselves so they can pretend to be relevant.
And we are increasing our retirement age…
and then as "thank you" they say "market is bad, we won't raise anyone salary, even though inflation is 10%, but we did raised our dividends by 7%. Be happy!"
(we are at the cynical part 😉)
@@Mark_Proton Also use your own cell and make sure you have Internet access. 💋
A job honestly doesn’t gives you the time, space and opportunity to chase your dreams and achieve your goals. From personal experience i can tell you working a serious job is modern day slavery. they pay you a small amount for doing a significant amount of work and promises you promotion. Best advice make investments and take calculated risks that would guarantee your success.
This is really not as difficult as many people presume it to be. It requires a certain level of diligence, no doubt, which is something ordinary investors lack, and so a financial advisor often comes in very handy. That is how people are able to make such huge profits in the market.
The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment
How can I reach this adviser of yours? because I'm seeking for a more effective investment approach on my savings
Annette Christine Conte is the licensed advisor I use. Just search the name. You’d find necessary details to work with to set up an appointment.
Thank you for the lead. I searched her up, and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.
This documentary should be sent to all corporations.
They won't listen
They don't care
They won't care. This is the job of the government believe it or not. Which is why corporations don't want governments to regulate their work.
@@jazmeen04 unfortunately, the government is even more clueless.
It would be banned for "hate speech"
This is spot on. Could not be more accurate. 30 Years in corporate management and I hated every day. Hated the job, the company, and most of the people I worked with. Sunday afternoons my mood starting changing knowing tomorrow was Monday. Sunday night I could not sleep knowing tomorrow was Monday. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I was wishing it was Friday. I pissed away my life doing what was “right” by other peoples standards
Same for me, I hate the stress of my job but I need money ..
Same. I only do it bc I have to, have no other choice. I keep trying side hustles to see if I can ever break free fm the office chains. It’s tough.
I'm wondering what would you have done instead, if you could, with today's mind?
Wtf same here. Thankfully I changed jobs and now I can do what I like
Indeed😅😅😅
My estimate is that for every productive job/worker there's at least three people (but probably a lot more) who make a living supervising, taxing, managing, controlling and critiquing that person.
Right?!!?
Thats how society works. We can argue it has grown excessive but aside from that what exactly is your point? All of those roles are neccesary
@@physetermacrocephalus2209 some of them are, the vast majority of them are not. It's not synergy, it's parasitism.
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Vast majority is an over statement. You do not truly understand how vast and complex the world is. You litteraly cited both supervise and manage which are arguably the same thing. It undermines the credibility of your assertion because even if you did not intened it too; it still comes across as incompetence based exagurration.
@@physetermacrocephalus2209 Your critique is the only thing here that seems incompetent. Two words I used are arguably the same thing? Who cares?
I don't think saying "vast majority" is an over statement at this point in history. We have endlessly deep bureaucracies and layers of management that do nothing but get in the way of people trying to get things done. Meeting after meeting just to justify someone's job.
I really felt that part when the lawyer said she wanted to get hit by a car just so that she wouldn’t go to work. Feel that most days, if not all.
I went through that several years ago. I wanted to get injured enough that someone else would carry the burden of my responsibilities. Pretty low state to be in.
In that state of mind so I quit, stopped working for 3 months now I work a job few would like but pays better and I'm not on a desk anymore!
Same
I have gone through that as well. I have friends who had a similar experience. I had to change work to realize how badly my previous work was for me. I’m sorry you’re going through it.
I was going to work and was involved in a motorcycle accident which i suffered a broken femur. My employer decided to terminate my contract because at the moment I'm recovering. I don't know what I'm going to do...
Brutally honest documentary. I haven't seen anything like it... It's amazing that somebody had the courage to bring this taboo to light!!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Thank you for sharing this incredibly insightful video!
@@DWDocumentaryDavid Graeber died a few years ago so this must be an older documentary?
@@DWDocumentaryW for y’all!
Bring to light? Or bring to media? Every company has people who speak truth to power and all they get a little bonus in the end. A big fat boot. The ideology that transpires from most managers and CEOs seems to be “fake till we make it”, or at least “fake it until the end of my mandate, then it’s someone else’s problem”.
I've actually rejected promotion the past couple of years. I am an engineer and just want to design, develope and build things. But I've been at the same role for years, so management wants me to move "up", to lead teams and projects, even though I have explicitly said I am uncomfortable doing that because those tasks gives me social anxiety. So, what happened? I wasn't promoted, which was ok, but my performance grade was also lowered cos of the perception that I was unwilling to contribute more. So I don't give a f anymore. If I'm disengaged, it's this stupid way of performance management that actively disengages workers, and not that the workers are inherently lazy or incompetent.
I am the cad drafter for said engineers and I am so over it. I cannot draw one more line and the same thing is happening to me. Everything is always due yesterday and it's exhausting. These firms keep taking on more jobs than they have resources for and I am the one stuck trying to issue construction packages on a Friday-officially the worst day ever. I am not interested in training others especially if they are getting paid more than me, nor am I interested in creating better procedures for mass distribution. Working from home from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep I have no life. Those drawings are not created by elves it's not magic.
OMG brother i feel you. Its the exact same with me.
Its this bs culture of if ur not a manager in a couple of years you are not good enough is just exhausting
I did move up in position, talked into it by people around me. I did it for several years and absolutely hated it. I recently stepped back down to where I was before. Hugely controversial move! Only two people in the history of the organization have done it, and I’m one. People don’t know how to respond to someone stepping down rather than going up the ladder.
@@dcamnc1I was promoted to middle management position 1 and a half year ago and I hate every day of it. Got all sorts of stress and anxiety irritable bowel sydrome and migraine because I'm doing the work of 2-3 people with not enough staff and the one staff I have is lazy and runs away all the time which stresses me out even more. I really admire what you did because some position and money is not worth losing your mental and physical health. But I'm planning to stick around for few months since they promised things will get better otherwise I will find another position which is not managerial. Anyways I just wanted to say I totally understand your point and its good that you stood up for yourself.
It's the same everywhere in large companies. If you don't evolve to help the company by allowing them to extract more value from you, they will want you to leave to replace you with someone they can control.
I’m watching this 4 months after quitting from a terrible office job because of a terrible burnout that crushed me completely.
I’m 29. It felt like I failed in life.
But now I’m starting to think that I will do whatever I can just to not work in a similar job ever again, including changing my career path completely.
The system just grinds us, I prefer making less money for a couple of years and creating my own business or path so that I can keep my sanity, rather then be a clog in the machine.
Something creative or indispensable-practical-tangible: electrician plumber welder…
truly understand your feeling bro. After I quit my old job at a big corporation, I felt like I had a serious trauma that I didn't want to have any social contact, I just want to isolate myself to let all the physical and mental wound heal. I then applied for some lower-paid jobs, doing normal stuff but my mind would be stress-free. I had no idea what to do next, but life is a marathon and I couldn't run at the sprint pace to finish that marathon.
I am in the same situation and I have the exact same thoughts. Also thinking of switching my career because I can’t stand the thought of going back to a job where I have to sit behind a desk fulltime doing meaningless work
It helps to realize that burnout is a form of depression, and that simply being in an office all day long in itself is a contributing factor to depression. Being inside all day, no unfiltered daylight, no fresh air, sitting still all the time, staring into a screen... None of that is helpful, and if you don't enjoy the work itself, getting mentally ill is almost a given.
This is literally me... I'm 29... I quit last week of a job of 7 years because every single day a woman in management was constantly negative from 8am until 5pm without stopping. Just horrible and nasty, going on and on and on, making work feel like it was more important than life itself. I couldn't stand it any longer. I didn't even want to live.
Burnout happens to people who have a work ethic and responsibility. It ends up biting you on the ass in the long run.
Today is my last day after 28 years at my workplace. Luckily I have months of leave owing so I don't need to work straight away. Sick of all the stress that should be the owners, not mine. I'm not putting my life on hold anymore waiting for others to get their acts together.
All the best! Enjoy your vacation!!
@@neelroy2918 thank you so much and all the best to you kind human. 😊
That is what is happening to me. In the whole office, only three people working while the rest are watching videos on TH-cam. On top of that, they complain about a boss sending a reminder about work etiquette because they behave like pigs in the office. Free riders are everywhere and they love to boss people around !! The laziest the bossiest
Agreed. As a lower-level employee the company’s success ultimately hinges on your performance. A manager might have an impact but you can still do good work in spite of a bad manager. You can’t get good work done if the actual workers don’t care.
Did we, as a civilization, really expect anything less to happen when we exchanged the gold standard for a system of currency counterfeiting? How does the type of money that we use influence everything we build on that economic base-layer? Has anything been developed recently that can bring us back to a sound money society and corresponding human values?
Thank you Satoshi Nakamoto 🙏
"I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now" - Morrissey
Good one
"In my life why do I give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die"
I’m so glad people still listen to the Smith’s.
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Because they sing the songs that saved our lives ❤
My boss recently said he didn't want to rise any higher in the company because at a certain point your only remaining contribution is to tell other people to work faster
32:08 this moment right here. The face that toddler makes when the crayon is taken away. That moment spoke to me so much. I like my job. I like the feeling that I can make an impact on the world. But every time I have a manager that tells me I can’t do it “this way” and I have to do it their exact way, I feel like my soul is being squeezed out of my body.
Love this sentence: cannot run a marathon at a sprint pace.
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@@MateuszGrudzienPL He doesn't sprint. He runs like he's running a marathon.
It took burning out myself to notice that most everyone around me at the office is burned out too. It explains a lot. Still not sure how I'm getting out of it, but am finally realizing it's time for something different. Life's too short to be miserable.
You only have so many hours remaining. I always suggest that people utilize them wisely. What that means differs for everyone, but it's still important to Reflect upon the idea seriously.
that will create a problem. this is why we have inflation.
WHEN KNOWLEDGE leaves = things get expensive. The consumer pays the cost of mistakes made.
inexperience workers creates alot of havoc and costly errors down the pipeline. AND you cannot fire them because workforce is so tight. Inflation
Quit showing up and convince everyone else to do so as well
Honestly dude I was you in an accounting job. Just bail, it's the worry of life that gets you out of the comfort zone and into a new career.
I couldn’t agree more. When the doctor explained to me I was displaying classical symptoms of burnout, it dawned on me that my colleagues were also going through the same phenomenon; wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
If one exceeds management's expectations, that becomes the new expectations.
Therefore, never do more in one day than you're willing to do every day thereafter.
Yep. That's the recipe for discouraging productivity.
@@NikitOS-vv4ksbut that's unfortunately true. Otherwsie you'll be taken advantage of.
I experienced it in my workplace as well.
@@taurus8263 yeah, that's the worst part about it. It's the most optimal decision for workers not to work hard because you don't get much for being a "good" worker. This is a bad situation for the economy.
Great advice
After 18 months of misery in my current job, I have resolved to do the bare minimum to keep sane. One day I will say goodbye to my current workplace.
RIP David Graeber (1951-2020). A great thanks for your thought-provoking critique of our senseless work culture.
Burnout victim here. I learnt to focus on everything I was taking in each day, basically my ‘daily diet’. Not just the food I was eating, it was everything my eyes would see, sounds I would hear, thoughts I would think of, the places I went, the people I talked to, the activities I did.
To have a healthy diet, I needed to make sure that I was taking in healthy actions each day.
Good luck out there
That’s fantastic advice.
I am learning the same lessons right now... add to the list, - other people's energy. I wasn't aware of how the things on your list affected me on a daily basis.
Nicholas - thanks for the great comment
Basically, live in your job at the pace that feels natural. After having burned out a few times myself, I decided that now I work at my pace. If the job increases what that pace should be, I do not increase my pace of working in order to save myself from burnout. Sure, they'll get me to leave one way or another, but I'm never giving myself to their greed ever again, because I don't have to. I have enough money invested that I never have to sacrifice my health to make them rich.
Burnie here too, it feels like resetting everything and having to reeducate the approach we have to life. it's like a second chance in a way, even though it's super tough.
Considering that this video came in only few hours ago, how popular it is already, says a lot on how we all feel about this topic, how really concerned most of us are. A hundred years ago, people had to fight, real fights, for improving their conditions, with real claims, and now, we just don't f****g understand what's going on, it's all about respecting budgets and standards, while HR send weekly emails on how to take care of our mental health.
Yes that's true...many many times I've felt like I didn't understand or saw the point of anything I was doing at a corporate job.
The wellbeing industry is the product of burnout.
HR send those emails about mental health things while trying their best to create an environment that goes against those exact words. Empty words at this point.
@@nothinginteresting1662 What really is the point of HR!? How do the even contribute? They are suppose to be on the workers side as well, but they just care about the company that pays them. Going against every moral fiber, if they even have any...
@@pleaseusernamework HR is not your friend. HR is looking out for the company not the employees. Sad fact.
I literally have no words to describe the brilliance of this documentary. A greatly perceptive and discerning gaze at the modern white collar work life. A poignant portrayal of how our current economic system makes the top 1% richer at the expense of the rest of us- where the fruits of increased productivity goes to them and we are left alone to deal with the drudgery, stress, high housing costs and an existence greatly depleted of life.
Thank you very much for watching and taking the time to comment!
So precisely you explained your thoughts.
I wonder how many C-suite managers see this documentary and say ‘eff it.’ To them their bonuses are more important than any life. Greed is the base of our current society.
I’m all for the reduction of CEO pay… but if they gave all their salary to these employees, it would be a drop in the bucket in most large companies. The problem here is much more complex than CEO pay. I know that doesn’t fit your narrative.
Greed of Americans is beyond any limits, to me it seems like kind of ideology, man talks and says nothing, those who listen just applaud him, is all mascaraed. It resembles more to communist ideology, even Chinese when they speak they tell things in much better way, trust me. Playing with words while saying nothing has become your way of life, and this will haunt you centuries probably millennias. 😂
@@99dynasty The goal should be to reduce or remove the C-suite roles. Short stories like Manna show this is possible already in many ways with the newly emerging AI technology (and some might argue that there was nothing to do in the first place for these people).
@@infiniteloopcounter9444 send them to play in the movies.
It would be an easy fix if it were only that, but there is whole adaptive group of sycophants who wish to become just like them for the small rewards. The detachment is ubiquitous. IMO although I’m confident. I offer no solution I comment because it fills me with regret watching it.
Not an office worker, but a warehouse worker. I got completely burnt out because of bad management and I had to quit. I just physically and mentally couldn't take it anymore. Its been 2 years and I still feel chronically burnt out. Some days I can barely get out of bed. This video speaks to me. People really should talk about burnout more.
Good God, it's like watching a documentary about my life. Each testimony hit close to home. I wish they had made this 13 years ago when I experienced burnout and felt like a failure. I speak openly about my experiency to ensure that younger colleagues are more aware than I was, and to make it clear that - as with any other health episode - there is nothing to be ashamed of. We are humans, not machines. Thank you for the documentary!
A lot of times, I sit back and think that people have the younger generations all wrong. They think the younger workers are lazy. In reality, I think they just see the pointlessness of most of the "work" being done, the time wasting like meetings that could be emails and "community at work" (whatever that is) and commuting- all for what, exactly? And they say, yeah. I don't want to do this. And they check out. I'm so right there with them. I'm a Gen Xer and definitely identify with the younger workers on this point.
Yep... it all comes down to justification for a paycheck. They have to give you something to do even though that something is really nothing.
They also get control of your time and even more importantly, your mental health. 😳
I am a gen Z and really did not understand those pizza parties done by the management. I worked in some sport betting and they forced us to stay over time and the closing time was 22:00, I do not know this people and do not like them, not to mention it was clear they had favourites. After that so called party where I got shamed that I did not want to learn some dumb promotional stuff giving that I will leave in a week and for the manager telling us that having your period is no excuse to not come to work. After, that party they wanted us to come to work at 08:00 like??? And I arrived at home at 04:00. Working 12 hours shifts that usually were 14 hours unpaid with no lunch break. I sometimes worked 4 days in a row. Needless to say after that summer job I needed like a week of rest, just sleep and roting in bed to get better. After that I finally was myself again and could do other stuff I could enjoy. That was depressing and the old people getting mad at the younger generations for not working, but they are the first ones to report the most stupid and littlest of mistake to corporate. As a saying goes from my country, the greamripper is searching for them at home, and they are here betting the retirement money.
You speak the language I think. I'm glad to see so many people, jumping out of the insanity of this "office life", it's not normal at all.
I agree. I think the younger generation realise the rituals in the corporate world are really quite pointless.. the people who are setting the rules as they have the advantage and it makes them feel important….
Listen, I agree with you! Like if we were able to work for 2-3 years and be able to afford a home, then I'm sure everyone would be happier and would try harder. People are working hard just to find themselves in the same position 2-3 years ago. No Progress. No growth. Inflation lowering the value of your money.. How can anyone feel optimistic in this environment after a while?
Oh boy, do I know about this.
I was in a lot of physical pain working a normal office job.
My soul despised what I felt compelled to do to survive.
All I can say is: do everything you can to avoid getting in a lot of debt.
BTW I do day labor and construction and housekeeping now because it's so flexible 🎉
@@PneumaPianoGuitar Outside of your share of public debt, going to college is the main reason people acquire debt. It's unfortunate people are so strongly encouraged to do that. I certainly was.
Avoid debt? Like an education? 🤔😭 Insidious isn’t it?
The thing is you need money to make money. If education is expensive, minimum wages are low and you are born poor, what do you do? Work 3 jobs for 10 years to afford an education for a better job? Or do you borrow the money for the education and spend 5 years paying off the debt with a single job that pays better than the other 3 put together?
@@1112viggo you do understand that in Europe most higher education is still pretty free,funded by the state?!
Yep. I couldn't stand it anymore. I quit. Working for corporations is a soul, heart and life crushing existence.
Yes, but it some way I kind of miss the rigor. Maybe that’s just me.
What do you do instead?
No @@shawbrothers18
Working for startups is even worse…
@@roxanamilea7683so true.. switching from large bank to startup nbfc.. it’s utterly horrible.. one feels lost as nothing in place.. too many loose ends..
Corporate jobs are really nasty! I had a few different jobs, but the absolute worst was at IKEA at their head quarters in Älmhult a few years ago, just before the pandemic. They remodeled the office to open space offices and everything that was personal was forbidden. So you were no longer allowed to have your own desk or have personal belongings at your desk. They constantly hade meetings about their leader (the founder, who was dead at that time) and praising him and the company like it was divinity.
Furthermore the bullying amongst colleagues was savage! You were urged by the leadership to climb the leader, so everyone was stabbing each others back in order to get ahead.
You were constantly brainwashed that you were part of some kind of IKEA family.
I could continue all day about that nightmare! This documentary brought back memories and gave me the chills.
Luckily I’m not there anymore, but feel sorry for the people with limited options what pay with their health and wellbeing in order to sustain themselves
Is so sad hear this because I thought IKEA it was revolutionary company, once it is Sweden "philosophy" , like balance between work and live, as you saying, this all is just a baloney 😢
My god. That sounds like a CULT!
Thank you for saying this. I work at IKEA (not head office) and have been burnt out recently by how poorly it's managed.
There are so many amazing comments already, so I'll just add this: I feel incredibly seen watching this documentary and I will be sharing it with my family. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
I think this is why I, as an austistic person , struggle so much with doing mindless meaningless tasks in the workplace. Because it comes natural to me to analyze everything and try to make sense of what I am doing on the larger scope of the company/society. It's even harder when I find it makes no sense because my brain automatically shuts down the motivation to do it.
This generally makes me end in an unmotivated loop of self-doubt about my abilities and purpose.
God this is so relatable.
Yep, I understand where you're coming from. And now they throw in this wrench into the mix, don't include pronouns in your status reports. So basically, I now have to remove what other people have actually said and change words to match this woke ideology, basically attributing it to them. Our CEO told us to do this at our last meeting.
too relatable
ACCURATE
There are really good jobs for brains like yours. Don’t give up! It can be good!
I worked at a public hospital in Sydney as a psychiatrist. I’d never previously met the clinical director for the service, who had invited me to meet him for an unrelated matter. Within five minutes, he identified that I had classic symptoms of occupational burnout. The hardest part of “suffering” from this condition is 1) accepting that it has happened to you 2) feeling you have to repeatedly try to explain and to justify yourself to your family and relatives, who more often than not perceive you as a “failure” and of having “given up” on your career. At the time I stopped working (coinciding with the pandemic years), I had been qualified as a MD for over 25 years and had worked within the field of psychiatry for 22 years so I can safely state that its not about giving up, it is about survival.
Very well said! Life, demands, work, stress, money… it’s no wonder that many of us are very near, or already in burn-out territory. We need a 4 day work week and a basic universal income now! (I’m in Switzerland, we work 41 hours or so).
@@MariaCarabin
We need 20hr work week. With all that f’n technology this SHOULD HAVE happened already 10 yrs ago….
The most irreplaceable jobs remain of the nurses, cooks police military hairdressers farmers teachers and nannies along with plumbers electricians and builders. All of these “lower middle” class in the US should have been firmly in the middle class, being able to afford a MODEST single family home.
Not a chance now.
A 30yo nurse with husband in law enforcement barely could buy a very expensive modest house with both sets of parents help.
Shame.
I’m another burnt out psychiatrist. I’m doing slightly better now than last year, but it feels like a roller coaster ride every week. I’ve always wanted to work with public healthcare, but it has been taking a toll on my health
Psych is brutal. I remember being more tired from volunteering with a non-profit psych operation for 5 hours than lifting dead weight for 8 to 16 😂
@@ludmilamaiolini6811 thank you for also sharing your experiences. What also happens if you so much as dare to share that you’ve become “burned out”, your peers and colleagues more likely will shun you and there’s a good chance you’ll end up being supervised for being an “impaired clinician”.
I was studying to be a cop I seen how it broke people down, I then decided to work in hospitality as a bartender, gaming attendant, TAB Clerk all were simple jobs and no headache. At the same company I was promoted to HR Manager I was miserable. I knew I made a mistake and went back to being a TAB Clerk a person that processes horse racing. And I must say I have never been more happier 3 years into the job I come to work do my job and go home no worries at all. I don’t need to worry about reports and garbage like that. I save alot of money now as my goals are clear compared to when I was a HR manager I was stressed and spent all my money. Morale of the story is if you are not happy downgrade to a simple job you will feel better. Also to all the people out there DON’t GIVE UP ON LIFE!
Great advice, I have been thinking about doing exactly that for a while now 🤞🏼
I am going to apply for your type of courage to HR :) all the best!
I will have to work more hours if I downgrade my job.
Simple boring jobs are going to be replaced by robots and AI some day. So that’s not an option anymore.
Just left my job of 21 years in mid may of 2024. Waljed in one day and enough was enough. I wasnt feeling valued. Im 49 with a wife and four kids. 21,19, 11, and 8. I have enough for about 1 year in savings. Wife is supportive of my decision. Going to look into doing something that I feel excited, valued and enjoy.
This resonates so much with me man
Good for you, man. What did you wind up doing? Do you enjoy it?
@@Lissbirdssecond this. Eventhough I'm only in my 20's I'm already thinking of doing the same thing, at least for some period of time till I sort everything out. Just curious how you solved the money side of the problem
This video is so spot on in so many ways, too many to mention but the one thing that stood out for me was when they said that people in management who aren’t even qualified to do the job. Oh my god, that is exactly what I experienced.
I'm in my mid thirties and I've felt this way for at least the past 15 years. I don't think I have another 30+ years in me before retirement. I truly don't think I can do this that much longer.
What job you do
@@Eggmanrocks I've worked various roles in the tech field
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Same…I am just taking it day by day but it is awful. Just keep tackling one thing at a time. All we can do.
@@KingGameReview I come from the tech industry as well, and I feel the same way. Most tech companies do not make any money from goods and services. Instead they make money from their perceived potential for exponential growth. If the perceived potential for growth is high, then venture capitalists will invest in the company. If things are looking bad (or if the company chooses to not mindlessly copy the moves of other major players), then VC will dry up. Product Engineers build features that nobody wants for products that nobody uses (under contrived but aggressive deadlines set by upper management) while R&D fakes demos to lie about how far the tech they're building is coming. All in the hopes that venture capitalists will throw a few pennies in the well.
I felt anxiety just watching this
True🥲
Me too
same
Same. I have a partial-burn out. I’m retraining/changing careers but I’m doing it while almost running on empty.
Indeed🎉
Excellent documentary on the pointlessness of modern ‘work’ that keeps us busy without creating value or happiness. Featuring the late great David Graeber. Thank you!
My manager keeps complaining about nobody doing their work on time, but he schedules 5 meetings a week, which last upwards of an hour, to repeat the stuff we go over every day. Driving me insane. Literally had 3 stress-induced seizures on the job.
My workplace used to be that way. The managers were promoted/got better management jobs. Now we have a wiser older manager who can look into the economy system and see we have orderes to more than fullfill the budget and gives us time to make the work generating the income.
Quit immediately.
5 meetings a week would probably make me quit
Oh sheesh! I hope you are better and able to leave that job
I don't like meetings.
I have simply refused to be promoted. I find it unbearable to be in meetings , to be with people for whom money and boasting is everthing. How can one sit in a place where no body is sincere and have no humanity?
The worst about meeting is that nobody wants to hear the truth. If you dare to say what's really on your mind, or what really would make things better, you're not "thinking with the corporate mindset", and people will ask if the job is really something for you. It's what this video says, that people put on a smile and pretend that everything is alright.
Nature - feel the same continually
I've had a lot of horrible managers. I heard once that the degree of psychopathy among CEOs was around 20%, versus 1% in the general population. It's probably higher since there's an incentive to hide those traits. Which means in general, the higher you go in the corporate chain of command, the more likely you are to encounter such individuals. That made me realize my success within a large organization will never be too big, since when I look at people I don't think of how I can use them to climb. It's very obvious to me that is the attitude that a lot of people at the top/middle have towards those around them.
I heard ceo psycopathology is %6, its rare, so rare, when you see it there is no doubt, you are the body they can dump in a swamp to run the business better and they surround themselves with people that look the other way, the remaining %14 may be on the spectrum.
Psychopathy ? Do we have to use such terms ? It's simply " I have got the power . I will do everything I can to hold onto it until the time when they come for me. Until then I will make your lives as miserable as I have to in order to keep my job" - It is survival , nothing more, nothing less, and you would do the same if and when you become a manager.
@@eddenoy321 it's not my opinion, it's a technical word used by psychologists.
I agree, that's what happens. That's why I think it's such a horrible idea for most of us to be employees instead of having our own business/farm like we all used to until recently. Human nature is what it is, we can only change our social systems.
@@Jaime-eg4eb Agree with you. I just don't like psycho=babble terminology and I have little faith in modern psychology. It is almost like religion for me. But that's me.
The way society rewards work and people is lopsided. It’s the source of disharmony across most aspects of life. But you can’t change it. You can only change yourself and work towards resiliency
As Charles Bukowski said "A 9-5 is the greatest tragedy that happened to us"
It's usual to be much worse like 12hours straight of hard physical labour
Said a white man who had the privilege of making a living from writing. How nice.
@@Heyu7her3 what does race got to do with it...
@@Heyu7her3He didn't have that "privilege" - he had to work normally and was writing in his "free time"...he was also quite unknown and became (a little bit famous when he was an old man...
It is😮
I spent a third of my time at my last job doing unnecessary, repetitive trainings, reading endless emails, filling in timesheets for myself and my reports, justifying the time I actually did real work, attending meetings, etc. It was exhausting and demoralizing. My coworkers and I wanted to get real work done, not do busywork.
I don't think I could go back to a timesheet job. I worked a government job that required it after basically all my others didn't and it felt so demanding and awful and I was a pretty model employee.
I'm also on a timesheet job. The expectation is to work like robots. If we take breaks or a job requires more time than actually allocated, we have to stay back to cover those hours. They won't pay overtime. The worst part is that our manager is hopeless. I want to make this year last at KPMG.
I am nearly one year in recovering from burnout. It such a shocking thing to have gone through, I completely fell apart the moment I left work. I had been trying to make it work and "fix" me, but there are SO many points in this documentary that gives so many of the answers why this happened.
My employers (I've been with the company for a decade, gave everything I had and then an ownership changeover occurred) don't believe that I broke down, doubt they would believe in this kind of burnout. I wish I could send them this video, print the transcript and highlight all the points....maybe then they would see? Doubtful. And it scares me for future employment.
Thank you for this documentary and bringing these stories and poor operations to light. So much needs to be done.
No one mentioned the fact that it takes two incomes to make less money than one income used to do. The string-pullers realized that if they break up the family, you get twice as many workers for the same price.
Very true, good point of view
It has nothing to do with breaking up the family, it's just good old capitalism. Keep squeezing prices, if women get autonomy and economic freedom, well, squeeze more. The wrong conclusion to take is "well see women shouldn't have had economic freedom".
@@unixtreme not to mention that women have always worked. At home and in the field at first and then at factories once industrialisation started. Women did not get a right to work, they've been working before, but to own money and property. It also shows that men just don't value women's work inside the house, if it's not paid with money it's not work.
@unixtreme i dont think that was his conclusion at all. Just that two bread winners means that people accept lower wages in the eyes of businesses
@@theneonpython that was my conclusion, that he didn't mention it. The left, being pro-gubermint being in charge of everything, doesn't want any competition from things like families or churches or even state gubermints.
Workers rights have been eroded over the last seventy years. There is essentially zero check and balance on the demands or whims of management. That's where it went wrong. You can have an incompetent or sadistic person whose personal preferences completely destroy a team, company, or industry. The 24/7 communication technology hasn't helped either, but it's 100% a worker/manager power imbalance issue destroying work satisfaction today.
Unions
Because of lack of proper laws favoring workers instead of capital
I have said to myself over the years “curse whoever invented email.”
Seriously? Unions have never been more powerful, especially in union government jobs where they get fat paycheques for their employees who perform well below the private industry and are impossible to fire for incompetence.
@@humbugswangkerton9972then go work one of those jobs.
Amazing documentary. Clear and straightforward about a contemporary phenomenon everyone knows, but no one cares enough about to fix. Even provides new information about the actual cause. The most effective sign of this self perpetuating self sabotage is that this documentary won't make a bit of difference, which is equally amazing because this is so harmful to people. We are all so callous.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
@@DWDocumentary Despite my cynical and purely personal outlook. I thank the good people at DW for bringing plenty of light on this subject (love most of your docs). There should be more, for we lose too many good people to this.
I've felt burnout too and it's not pleasant, I quit my job in 2021 due to burnout, got another job in 2022 and it was just the same cycle. Being stuck in this rat race we call life you need a job but jobs come with a myriad of stresses and unhappiness. It's funny how as humans we create illusions that just seem to make our lives miserable.
200% agreed! yep it's just a broken system breeding broken people into slavery. this is started at a young age of 5 at school which is when we enter "the system" for life!
'Stoicism is the art of constantly creating truths for a life lost in rationality'
I worked at a company, in the technology department, here in the Dominican Republic, from 2019 to 2021, when I resigned due to burnout. I remember that on my first day, the person who was my superior told me, 'You are a rat.' I should have left the company that very first day, but because of my financial situation, I stayed for two years. From that first day until the end, there wasn’t a day that this person didn’t insult me or make my life a living hell. I had nightmares, lost weight, and experienced panic attacks. In the end, I had to resign. My life was never the same again. To anyone going through a similar situation, I understand you perfectly.
I hope you've received healing with time. We are human beings.
For a time I volunteered for additional responsibilities at work. I was very much engaged and felt good about it. I had the opportunity to learn more about different divisions. Best of all, I got the chance to connect with many people within my organization. I arrived early and stayed late to manage the "volunteer" responsibilities. My entire yearly review centered around one situation in which I neglected to respond to someone following my return from vacation in a timely manner. No one was harmed as a result of the delayed response. I shared how I used my time to improve the organization. I was told if I wanted a raise, I'd need to improve my response time. BASED..on one incident. I checked out and haven't checked back in. I do my primary job and absolutely nothing more. EXCEPT! I am far more involved with community projects. I no longer volunteer at work.
The word "meeting" still makes me feel rage and frustration. Have not worked in an office since 2006.
What do you do now?
Same here. I remember wondering, "when does one work with all these meetings in a day?". I'm a teacher now and I love what I do so much.
I have seen a lot of people enjoying meetings, so that people may feel their presence. I agree with you. Meeting should be the least important and loathsome act.
What do you do now?
DEHUMANIZED. That's what we all are right now. Turned into cogs of engines with only a trickle of oil. If we don't fix this, the engine will explode. 😥
Like Concorde Effect he was telling me.
Their fix is to replace the cogs with workers that dont burnout: automation. I'm in a team at my firm that helps teams automate their work and I realized I'm not doing society a favor. I need to get out.
Or it will keep going but we won't be the same anymore. Either we change the machine or it changes us.
I had a hysterectomy last year. Although I could have waited, I needed a break so bad. I got surgery just so I could take a significant time off of work. And it was the absolute best 8 weeks of my life. I got enough sleep. I didn't feel like a zombie or on autopilot. I had time to think. I really wish I had a slower paced job or less stress
I was also thinking that if I need an elective surgery to do it right before Thanksgiving so that I can finally get holidays off. I always have to work holidays as a Nurse.
Spot on! This video has captured the essence of today’s corporate culture. Fortunately, for the most part, the younger generations seem to be questioning the status quo.
This documentary just spelled out exactly what I and others are going through. We're people, not machines and not property.
The microsoft teams notification sound still gives me ptsd to this day, anyone who has worked an office job will know, still, office jobs are 100x better than any retail or hospitality job, and thats a fact
I guess that depends, I have seen retail shops where work is moderate most of the day, and the employees may even have some chit chat while they are folding their clothes, but I;ve also seen the exact opposite: a huge store with few people that try to complete everything. The latter happened to me today, haven't felt so bad in a while.
That's only when money is invovled because the latter jobs do not pay well. If I had a choice without worrying abiut the pay, I would absolutely switch to a hospitality job as that's where my personality fits better, not this dog eat dog corporate world where humanity goes to die.
For me it’s slack. Everytime I hear that click I literally want to end myself. I turned the sound and notifications off at work so that I could concentrate on my work only for my higher up to tell me I’m not answering all the messages I’m receiving or being linked to.
Now I’m only helping finishing other people’s problems instead of finishing my work.
Sometimes I don’t even want to open the freaking laptop.
I used to get a small panic attack when I heard my work phone ring.
Work burnout can have devestating consequences for your health, if you ignore it for too long. That happened with me. I worked a government job for 15 years, and ignored the warning signs of severe burnout. The consequences to my health caused me to have to leave my job before I was ready to do so. Don't make the same mistake. Know the warning signs, and don't be afraid to get some help.
Your doing well now though?
@@shawbrothers18 Nope. 8yrs on from my severe burnout and I'm struggling with burnout again after trying to hold on to a part time job for the last 4.5yrs. I'm physically exhausted all the time and my body can't handle stress anymore. Jim is not kidding you when he said it 'can have devastating consequences for your health'.
Just interrupt your work, no need for help.
And fight.
@@urimtefiki226 That's exactly the attitude I took, until it was too late.
Unionise
One of my coworkers told one of the managers that he was struggling with burnout. Well…he was told it was his fault and was shamed. Then that manager started gossiping about how he was suffering from “burnout” and it was his fault because he didn’t know how to do his job well. He had been there for 6 years!!
Toxic work environment = burnout waiting to happen
That’s beyond disrespectful :(
Hopefully they left the job. I would say it’s time to look for something new, that’s no way to treat anyone but I worry that they genuinely believe what they are saying because they have to justify their behaviour somehow.
@@DanasDiary. unfortunately they truly believe that. That’s the culture where I work, so I’m quitting because I’m starting to suffer from burnout.
@@marys3738 I am really glad to hear that you are leaving and putting yourself first, no money in the world is worth the health repercussion and the burnout. I went through burnout myself recently and have quit as well, here is to finding something better that doesn't end up burning us out :)
Thank you for making this documentary and making it available on TH-cam. As it was pointed out, we all feel this but don't discuss it and business goes on. This documentary put my thoughts so well into words, supported with data and empathy. It's been Impactful for me, thank you.
This is the most relatable documentary I've ever seen. I really thought i was the only one struggling with burnout. All these people's stories are MY STORY! it especially become difficult to work when the pandemic hit and we started working remotely. My manager was absolutely horrendous and the fact that i worked from my room, it felt like she was attacking me personally, since she was literally in my house in team calls everyday screaming and yelling over everything that i did. It was never ending until I had to speak up for myself. It was a complete horror and after that job i immediately found another job, without fully recovering from that horrible manager. It made me deal with stress really badly. i still cringe every time i hear a teams call or a sound of email notification, thinking it's her contacting me again to yell at me. I feel like i need a year off work to completely recover. But i can't afford to take time off work, especially in this economy. The American dream in its demise. Sad reality we live in.
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The part with the toddlers sitting in cubicles was disturbing and sad. Much like actual office situations.
I was raised in the nature as child and I didnt learn anything in the scholl until 13 years old. At 15 I started to analize things and use my imagination.
I totally felt it in my soul
it absolutely broke me. As a new father, I wish my daughter to never experience this nightmare we've found ourselves in.
The crayon baby was enjoying his crayon and focusing on the task, then they took it alway from him and his whole purpose diminished. At first he was like can I have it back? With no response, then he looked around like what do I do now? His whole hope diminished on his face
This is how we feel at work. Lets remove the things you enjoy, and guide you into what you should be doing (based on someone else's idea) then add in later more things in the things your doing. Then when you say it's too much "ohh then you are not good enough and people would be so happy to do your job and you should be fortunate you even have that job". With the problem of them giving you more tasks is the real issue not the fact that someone has to grind harder to finish them
Like chicken in a cage
We're living in a house of cards --- how much longer before it all comes tumbling down?
My entire life I was told I needed just one more thing to be "successful." First it was a high school diploma, then it was secretarial school, then it was a BA, then it was an MA.
By the time I'd finished all that, while moving multiple times, working to support myself, and looking after ill relatives, I was in my 40s.
I've been playing catch-up my entire life. And it's all been a lie. Even tho we have some stability now, we're only a few paycheques away from losing what we have.
In all my various jobs I had very few where I felt I had agency or any positive feedback.
But when it does happen it's amazing! Imagine what we could accomplish if the majority of our working life was like that?
This video just validated my thoughts I’ve been having for the past three years where I realize jobs are only important because people give it value. If people don’t give it value, people are not gonna care about it.
Because of this thinking, I give my job as much attention as I think that it deserves. I don’t put all of my waking hours into it. I don’t put all of my free weekend time into it , my job pays me for x amount of hours and then that is what I will be doing. If I can do it in less than my x amount of hours then that that is what I will do. I take my job seriously, but I have to constantly remind myself that what I do is not life-threatening, it can wait.
Amen to this!
Took the words right out of my mouth
When cost of living has been doubled but the salary has been increased only 3%
The whole world has become an open air prison 😅
But CEO’s salary 30%
Yesterday I had a cry crisis after arriving home from work, I cried for 1 hour desperately, completely alone at home, without capacity to think, felling myself so miserable. The office work environment is toxic, damage our soul, we have to pay bills, no way to get rid of it😢
I don't know you, but I understand you. Because also I work in a corporation. On accountant position. Very draining tasks and environment. Stressful. Actually, stress became a normality, so it became normal to feel stressed even when you don't have a clear reason at the moment. And nobody out of that environment can understand you:) All of them say that it is on you to put boundaries. I feel positive last days, after weeks of feeling very down. There are ways to deal with all. It doesn't become easy then, but you become more able to handle it.
My first advice is; be good with everybody, but trust fully to nobody and don't become too close with anybody.
Second advice: Be good in Something. Cleverly choose what. I can take my example. I am averagely intelligent person, I need time to digest information and new things and just then become good with handling them. I am often not somebody who will jump like a lion into sth and right away do it impressively. But with time, I become very good.
So, to fulfill that gap between starting sth and becoming good, I try to be very fast with solving things that I already know and are easy to me.
Company always noticed that.
So, find your own joker card! It must be sth easy to you to deal with it and noticeable to those ones above you.
Etc. Wish you well!
I wish I could give you a hug. All I can say is, I understand. And believe me, it's not you, it's them and their toxic work culture. Wishing you the very best
Avoid attaching yourself to anything which means you have to work more or be a slave e.g. high mortgage, expensive wedding or holidays, expensive cars etc. Things that mean you become a endentured slave to pay back. Equate ever dollar to a drop of your soul lost.
7 years ago I quit my job, and moved into a motorhome. Best decision of my life. My only recurring bill nowadays is 10 EUR for mobile internet each month. A little bit of diesel I pay for when I want to switch location. My new life has enabled me to work on average just a couple of months per year, and still save money lol.
What I am trying to say is if you quit the bills you can quit the slavery too. Once you've had a taste of life in total freedom there's no going back.
This is the reality, i love your soul .
There were so many points in the documentary that I identified with my current job. As a nurse I hear “healthcare heroes” or frontline worker we support you but if I look back there is no one there to really truly support me and prevent burnout. I’ve been in burnout for a few years now and I’m trying extra hard to find true meaning in my role. I can see that I’m not the only one. Thank you for putting how I feel into words with the science to back it up. 😊
What’s missing here, though, is a discussion on solutions and the urgent need for systemic change. It’s time to address this issue and create healthier work environments for everyone.
It is impossible things have gone too far, detoxication takes centuries or even millenia is deeply rooted to your soul that is transmitted to otehr generations.
There is no cure for that as easy as you say.
The choice is yours to make.
Before you discuss solutions, you need to properly understand the reasons. DW is a German news outlet. Over a long time now we have falling standards in schools, meaning a lot of people who shouldn't even have qualified for universities find themselves in intellectual careers they are not cut out for. Since 2015 we are struggling with uncontrolled mass migration, which keeps wages low and taxes high. On top of that Africa and Asia are increasingly supplying themselves with stuff, so all that fancy money that made the middle class rich a few decades past is now staying there and helping these people to get their slice of the pie.
The best thing really is to move on when you can't stand your workplace, and if the job as such stresses you out, maybe look for something simpler to do.
Idk, I just feel the system is toxic because we let it be toxic. How about companies pay in perpetuity a percentage of all AI/machine generated work to those who actually created them? Or idk, in perpetuity to the state who gave tax breaks for various investments, which then gets re-distributed to people? I'm sure there are solutions and a 100 year old paradigm of 40 hrs per week ain't it. I'm pretty certain groups of people can figure out solutions, it doesn't have to be or should be a sole individual's contribution or idea, as it's a massive undertaking
that’s too close to questioning capitalism for this publication
"I feel like I was something, and then I was shaped into, suffocated into, being something else, something less, something smaller"
Thank you DW for sharing this with the world. It has already impacted at least one person profoundly, so thank you.
The man talking about his burnout smyptoms - i've gone through that in the last months. I thought i knew "exhaustion", but the severity of it was new to me. I thought i had a terrible illness, went to my doctor, he couldn't find anything in my blood or during general examination that pointed to so much as a flu. He sat down and talked to me for a bit and eventually went "you're showing all the signs of burnout". To which i literally said " Oof" because all the air just left me. It was a surprise to hear, but shouldn't have been. I've been crying at work alone in my office daily. I cried on the train to work, on the way home. I blamed myself for it all because i thought i wasn't cut out for the hybrid office/social work job i occupied. But i made a joking remark to a colleague i got along with well and i saw her mask slip. She was just as done and fed up and mad as i was.
My contract ends in a few weeks. The question "what now?" is so big that i can barely wrap my head around. I feel out of options. I worked in retail, i worked in service, i worked in an office. I can't imagine myself finding a low-stress occupation that pays enough to cover rent and have me ending my shifts with my sanity intact. Where to go from here? I don't know
Don't give up, and do your best to stay positive. I resigned from my job about a year ago after 12 years of working for them. I was thinking about it for about a year until i started having health issues due to stress and I just "gave up". I became a misarable person taking pills for depression to "survive" each day. I know how stressful it can be, but trust me, you won't regret it! Once you calm down you will see that there are options! Best of luck!
I had a light burnout and could start work after 6 months. But looking back it was an insightful experience which put me on a path. After that I had a small company for a few years, started and quit many jobs so did 2 trade courses and kept having faith in finding a job that would be worthwhile. Now I am 46 and have found my dreamjob as a Sales tech for a small informal company that really fits me as a person who loves travel and working with people. Don't worry , keep having faith and you will find your place too at a company that sees your value!
Great documentary. This has also happened in universities and the whole educational sector. In our research we have called this “affective subjectivation”, which exactly points to how we are governed affectively to become machine. Thanks DW!
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Thankyou for this. I am a full time academic in final stages of own PhD currently in bed burnt day 7 out - I will be referencing this paper!
This is a valuable documentary. This rings truer than anything I see on the news of hear on the lips of politicians. Something needs to change, this meaninlessness and wage slavery is indicative of a broken culture. Thanks for making this film.
I felt this video on so many levels , I can't believe so many other people feel the same
lol. I literally quit my job of 3 years last week to go back to school for environmental science. My bank account may be lighter, but so is my soul. 💯
i find sciences very attractive these days. I am a jaded Tax accountant and i am exhausted . For me its physics and chemistry . i am saving up for open university as i can't do the full time thing . I gots to pay bills and put hot meals on the table . The only person in my House that can keep a secret is our Dog .
@@PHlopheyou bloody do it pal, make sure you applied for that OU degree FFS. I was you, an ex-accountant now. I bailed from that career of 9 years from burnout. Now looking at the trade route, and hoping to do a OU degree, but torn between electrical engineering or pure science.
@@DrumToTheBassWoop accountant burnout is crazy.pure science is evergreen AI can never retire it as it is always flourishing.if i was you it'd be priority
@@PHlophe So should I pursue physics and maths instead of electrical engineering? As for accountancy, I'm and agent provocateur to that career path, I will actively dissuade people going that career path, it's not good for your mental health, honestly.
That’s honestly great. I’m currently looking into massage therapy school. I started in corporate America 2.5 years ago and I already hate every single aspect of it. I cannot see myself in this for another 40+ years.
The problem is the "non-work" a lot of employers are obsessed with. They expect you to work, even if there is no work to be done.
A.e. what happens if you work from 9-5 but you are done with everything at 2. Instead of rewarding good and fast work via a merit based system, your employer will give you a meaningless task just so it looks like you are doing something. This leads to workers not even trying anymore after they expirienced this once or twice, leading to low work morale and sinking quality of the service/product and can also lead to a work enviroment where 5 people do in a day what one could do it 2 hours.
The good old "You done wiping the bar? You still have 20 on the clock, so do it again!"
Good work needs to feel rewarding. This is a very basic principle. And if i see the 5 people kicking the same bucket around for 3 hours while i do their job, yet im getting payed the same as any of them AND i get punished for it with even more work, then im obviously not gonna be happy with my job and refuse to do quality work in the future.
And no, a "higher than average" pay won't justify or fix this.
This is so true!! Currently typing this while I’m waiting to see my GP because I’m experiencing a hypertensive crisis. Hopefully I won’t stroke out. THIS is the result of being a manager in an organisation that values figures above humans. But oh how they talk the talk!
I’m in middle management, and I know the personal stories of all my team and try so hard to be fair, reasonable, and always available. Meanwhile getting pressure from above to increase figures, outcome measures, bla bla….I run 2 mental health outreach programs ffs! How’s the irony in that? Finance recently told me I should cut down vehicles. We work in remote communities! How are we supposed to get to our clients? Flap our wings?
Geez, can’t afford to raise my BP thinking about it. The meetings, the reports… none of it matters. I fit in the percentage that is no longer engaged. I look after my team and clients and put no effort into all the busy work that is pointless and time consuming. Some I’ve stopped doing altogether. I get reminders, ignore them, nothing happens. Yes, I’m burnt out. I’m also alone, and can’t afford to stop working. Maybe I will stroke out, problem solved.
We’ve lost our way 😢
Thank you. May this documentary go out and accomplish all of which you have set out for it to accomplish for the greatest good of the people.
After 17 years of working the 9-5, it cost me my health and then I straight up quit without a job prospect. My moment of truth was when I experienced a traumatic miscarriage and that night I was conflicted between a case I was working on and grieving. It wasn’t anyone’s fault but I realized that moment that I had my priorities all messed up. I left that 4 months later.
I’m really sorry about your experience.
I was never the type to quit a job w/o another one lined up but I have also reached a point in life where I too was broken down as a person fm work & just couldn’t do it anymore & I did the same. We all have a breaking point. That’s when you know the low is low.. it’s not a good place to be in but I thank God for His saving grace towards me at that time, too. Not sure I could have seen the light any other way tbh. I’m sorry to hear that for you & hope you’re doing better now. Life is so hard sometimes. ♥️
i pray you get the help you need
Wish you find peace and content..🎉
Yep, had my wife flood my house while I was at work on a Sunday. I left work to tear out the flooring and call the crew and was back at work 2 hours later. Fun times. Oh, almost forgot, after my ineveitable divorce my son flooded the same house I spent my entire Christmas vacation installing the floor on.
I left the workforce in Feb 2022, a few months after giving birth to my first son. When my maternity leave ended, I lasted 2 months before I threw in the towel. I was miserable and missed my son every minute I was away. I started working super part time doing contract work for a small business which allowed me great flexibility. What I've realized that I desired more than anything was flexibility and the ability to start and finish a project and move no to something else. Must of my work, (HR) was so mundane. Same thing over and over, pointless meetings, goals constantly changing due to upper management, not feeling like my work was valued, etc.
I've never been more happier since leaving the 9-5 work life. I am blessed that my husband makes a very good living which allowed me to leave in the first place. We just welcomed a 2nd son a few days ago and his is getting full pay for the next 6 months from his employer. Again, truly a blessing. I am not sure if I will ever have interest in going back to a 9-5 workplace, remote or not. Since becoming a mother, my values has totally changed. I cannot give an employer 40+ hours of my life when I do not feel like my work is making much of a difference.
First time mom to be in November and I'm already telling my husband I don't even think I can make it to maternity leave. I just do not care about work anymore and doing the long and hectic commutes everyday in our congested city. Once I get home I have about an hour to myself and my husband before I need to start getting ready for bed. I can't even imagine once a baby comes into the picture 😖 I hope to find something part time down the line like you!
Can't imagine bringing children into this world. Hope your sons will be equally blessed. The world is getting more inhospitable.
Congrats on your 2nd baby. I have 2,5y old boy. Taking care of him till 4pm and we switch my my husband and I work from the 4pm or later sometimes. I work remotely but I feel I can't do that anymore. I tried different office jobs in my life, worked as an IT, Recrutment and Helpdesk. All of them giving me anxiety. Not sure what I'm gonna do next.
And yet the "diversity" gurus want more and more women in the workforce and in management positions. I do wish more women would start speaking up and telling employers that you want to spend more time with your family, not less.
But your husband giving 50hrs to company,have you thought about him?
“I missed my exit”. Yup, I feel this.
I burnt out after sixteen years in the corporate world. I decided one day to just quite my job (I had some money behind me from a payout along the way). I thought to myself “I am either doing the best thing my life or the worst thing”. For years the verdict was out, But to cut a long story short? in the end it was the best thing I had done. I lead less affluent life but I’m so much happier and less stressed! I have time to look after my health now.
Work is like a combat arena, as it gives u that daily feeling of unnecessary competition with ur peers as we are forever assessed, insiduously rated via KPI set by mgt. No wonder, there's a constant state of dread as we go into the battlefield, where u r gossiped on, put under the bus, backstabbed and made to endure meetings with staff ever trying to showcase their worth by grandstanding, outshining each other. EXHAUSTING.... Anyway, i've resigned last May and now trying to heal my scarred state of mind and body.
The biggest problem in the workplace as I see it, is the employment of managers and executives who have no specialist or technical knowledge related to the service they are in-charge of, and are unable to make quality decisions. I even had a CEO say to the organisation he wants people managers in the executive team that don’t need any experience or technical knowledge in the areas they will manage or lead….no wonders they cannot make quality decisions….ie see Boeing in 2024!
Yes, and these people managers in my company have the highest staff turnover as they do not understand the process…. Quite ironic….
This sounds like my previous job bro where you live?@Interdacted
If you cannot do it, you manage it🙄
@12:06 When the gentleman at the beginning said he missed his exit, I felt that. ❤ Thank you for sharing your story 🙂
i was unemployed for 10 years from 20 to 30 yo. These were the best years of my life, i lived off social benefits. Now im working and im shocked how miserable life is.
Being jobless for a while allows people to meditate what they really want in life ❤.
Being unemployed is the dream, man. I only work 8 months out of the year and cannot wait until my next break. Hoping to eventually get it down to 7 months on, 5 off, which including weekends is a perfect work life balance. 180 days on, 180 days off.
You're welcome!
I feel very seen and understood. Thank you all so much for making this.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
I do the bare minimum at my office job and always will. I never got credit all the decades I went above and beyond, and live by 'no good deed goes unpunished ' now. I only go in, work then leave. I'm not here for a popularity contest. I never participate in forced team building events or work outings. I never respond to texts outside working hours. I only go into the office part time. I'm too logical to be a full time slave. When I was, I was mentally unstable and always dreary. Nowadays, I work 3 days and play for 4. I finally feel balanced.
This docu is so so so relatable & I am sure every salaried person finds it so, This needs to be dubbed in every language so that it revolutionize the working conditions
This is the exact reason why I don’t have kids. Already tired from life to do anything especially having another precious life being victim of burnout.
Yep, same here!
Same!
As usual, DW brings in another topic that has been deviling our lives.
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i am very thankful, that i was able to watch this a few days after having the hardest work week i had ever experienced at my job. At the time, i was unable to define what my current problem was. Especially the unending feeling of exhaustion, the tardiness, the dread of work.
This was a great watch - very relevant. I do love how they included children in these settings; it truly reflects how we react when we are forced to do shit, how things like our creativity and individuality is taken from us etc. I feel like we're all just children forced into jobs and/or life paths that just aren't right for ourselves and healthy to the soul.
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I didn't see any humor in this film. It's a devastating problem that never seems to be addressed. Maybe "humorous" is lost in translation. I'd call it a cynical and realistic look. Well done, everyone who worked on it. Thank you. Comes at a particularly critical time in my work life.
Best doc I have seen on the topic. Says what I never could say. I still have sudden flashes of panic attacks from my corporate life.
I left my job because I felt weak and disrespected there. My ex-boss thinks I'm incompetent. She was once upset I had signed up for a one-person shift, because she didn't think I could manage alone. She scolded a lower-ranking manager for not noticing I had signed up a coffee service. When she asked him if she thought I could do the shift, I answered for him with a firm "yes," because I felt belittled by her. She said she didn't think so, was all "I've told you not to sign up for shifts by yourself, I've been very clear about that, I don't know how much clearer I can get for you to listen" and she told me I need someone there to give me instructions and guide me. Sure, I'm a slow learner and have messed up at work before, but you got a lot of guts labeling and shaming a guy with learning difficulties like that. The fact that she trusted the newer workers to work alone but not me hurt, as did her willingness to indicate I'm inferior, no apology since then. I know her type. She didn't even respond to my two-week notice.
I wouldn't even stay there, hope you looked for a new job immediately.
Excellent & insightful documentary - solves the mindset "Why me" ??.Many individuals including myself feel that "I am the only one who have the worst problems in life".
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I have quit my job and now im delivering groceries. When im cycling in the sun I think back about my boss..
Excellent, excellent, excellent. One of DW's best. A must watch. Bet it describes alot of you. Love the way it's put together, especially the part with the babies in the office environment. Brilliant.
In Cantonese we have a saying that literally means "find eat". For those who have burnt out before. That is essentially all we need. Find food to eat and live a happy life. Unfortunately the world is screwed to a side that we will also need to "find a living place", "find partner", "find other enjoyment". All these added together need us work harder and harder or else we get overtaken. It is about what you can let go and accept to enjoy a happy life. Great documentary and guests who took part. Well done DW. Keep it up
Interesting, in Malay the phrase is exactly the same: cari (find) makan (eat) although makan can also translate as food.
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The most important job (paid or unpaid)of caring for others both young and old is looked down on as unskilled and lazy. This should tell us how brainwashed we are. And for those who say well what about me I don’t have kids and don’t care about old people why should I care …….don’t worry some day you will need someone to care for you if you are lucky enough to live a long life.
Wow, brilliant work. I saw many parallels with my own life and yet I also finished it with a smile on my face. I wish I could have watched this 10 years ago before becoming a parent.
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I went through a period of really, really serious burnout a few years back. I took some time off and that relieved the worst of it, but I didn't realize how bad it was until a few years after that when I finally got some real help.