Your Job Doesn't Care About Your Mental Health

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▼ Timestamps ▼
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00:00 - Reddit post
01:07 - The problem surrounding burnout
04:35 - The origins of burnout
13:06 - Employee wellness
17:08 - Employers who take burnout seriously
22:53 - Questions
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[MaynardFergusonify]

"Burnout tends to be caused by people who want to do a good job, but are placed in a situation where doing a good job is very very difficult" Yeah this line hit me like a truck. That's my life lol

[andrewkelley]

HR is nobody’s friend but the company’s. Don’t forget that.

[brandon]

10hr days 5-6 days a week, but when I mention being depressed or hating my life, all I hear is "But the money must be nice though huh?" Makes me want to tear my hair out, more than I already do.

[TheGreatRakatan]

Job: "Here, have this meditation app!"
Employee: Meditates and realizes their workplace is toxic AF and quits
Job: Surprised Pikachu face

[jenl]

I realized that not only does your job not care about your mental health, they don't care if you live or die either. My direct manager passed away suddenly over the weekend from health complications of fighting cancer (she thought she was cleared), like one Friday I was still speaking to her, and next Monday she was gone. The company replaced her position with someone new within 3 days, sent out a small tribute via mass email, and called it a day. It was such an eye opener, your workplace doesn't give a shit about you!

[Farina]

Funny thing is that I work at a mental health center but all the employees are quitting from burnout. There’s no support. We’re getting a staff appreciation week but thats more of a bandaid than a solution. When I tell people I’m leaving I get “why is it always the good ones!?”. The good ones are always the first to go because we can see how they treat us and the employees who do nothing all the same.

[hairyfrankfurt]

The fact that you uploaded this on the same day where I literally nearly walked out of my job? This has me feeling less insane. Thank you.

[noblesavage]

Being in a toxic work environment is like being in an abusive relationship.

[instanttregret]

Dr K going off on corporate culture feel insanely validating

[Gigaflare]

This is why communities like antiwork have taken off and why there were so many resignations this year. People are starting to realise how toxic work environments are, and they're not happy about it.

[coolcarly]

What has bothered me always about this conversation is that it's still centered on improving productivity. Like, companies should do wellness things 'because it actually make employees more productive anyways!'. What if it was just a moral good to increase wellness? What if it DID decrease productivity? I would argue we should still do it anyways.

[MrCriistiano]

"Your Job Doesn’t Care About Your Mental Health" - That was basically my postgrad thesis on occupational health and safety engineering.
To solve this problem we need to change the workplace.

[harrypoderskis]

This is why I’m against big corporate… everything. After writing my master’s thesis in marketing on “Creativity in the modern workplace: Using the Big 5 personality trait model to examine corporate culture” I became sure that freelancing is the only option for me and anyone who considers themselves to be creative.

[bobrossw]

When you described burnout "interventions" by companies, it reminded me of studies on therapy modalities that found that parents preferred individual therapy for their young children over other therapies that focused on parent training, despite the fact that parent training is demonstrated to be effective and individual therapy (at very young ages) is not...the findings suggest that parents prefer to feel like they are doing something without a lot of effort on their part, even if it's not really accomplishing much.

[KDill]

"We'll make less money if we don't give our workers a reasonable break"

The problem with this is you'll make less money if that worker quits and you need to put effort into hiring someone who will likely quit... and if the worker stays, the efficiency of their work is less than if you offered them some relief from the tasks they hate.

[prettyshortshorts]

Employers: We care about your mental wellbeing
Also employers: There are too many bodies in this team and half of you will be fired, so make sure you work twice as hard, if you want to have a job.

[CYXXYC]

This man really works 60 hours a day and 10 more arguing with insurance companies

[catiapb]

I refuse to attend any program or conference that is on my resting days /hours. It is ridiculous to attend a conference where you go to learn something that is useful to your practice, after work or at weekends. The worse thing is that most health professionals find this normal... This culture needs to stop.

[lukeswain]

13:20 - so much this. Between commute time and 40-60 hrs per week, that means we're literally spending over 50% of our waking hours away from home, family, etc. Absolutely "wellness" needs to be integrated during these hours.

[AndPennyThought]

I feel like there is an extremely strong belief in our culture that pain is the thing that makes you do better, stronger, harder, etc and we will go to insane ends to not surrender this belief. Maybe because to deny it would incriminate ourselves for participation.