I can easily explain to business owners that if they run their machines at 100% fulltime, with no maintenance, their machines will break. And there won’t be any waranty.
But for their staff it’s all about “full efficiency”? And then they’re surprised the levels of burnout and absenteisme are through the roof?
I’m glad there aren’t too many “ah the youth is just lazy in MY DAY rabble rabble….”
I teach these kids, i know how they operate. Sure there’s lazies, there always are, but the main issue is apathy. They see their parents working long hours, long days and still struggle to make ends meet so they have a “why even bother” attitude.
But they’re passionate, creative and incredibly smart. Lazy is different from apathy and it’s important to know the difference and act accordingly…
>“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears itself out in a rat race it runs against itself.”
>― Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft
>“From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century is determined neither by bacteria nor by viruses, but by neurons. Neurological illnesses such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and burnout syndrome mark the landscape of pathology at the beginning of the twenty-first century. They are not infections, but infarctions; they do not follow from the negativity of what is immunologically foreign, but from an excess of positivity. Therefore, they elude all technologies and techniques that seek to combat what is alien.”
>― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
>“What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results.”
>― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
>“Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
Not surprised by this at all.
I’m only 31 and often times I can’t comprehend how I manage to keep on going. I’m tired boss…. The career ahead of me is still so long… By the time I’m old retirement probably won’t even exist anymore.
life expensive, wages often low, work pressure often high. Why are the youth getting depressed?
Bij de tijd: https://www.tijd.be/politiek-economie/belgie/algemeen/fors-meer-twintigers-zitten-thuis-met-depressie-of-burn-out/10609924.html 44 procent stijging in vijf jaar bij werknemers, 70 procent bij zelfstandigen. Ik vermoed dat mensen die deeltijds hervatten ook kog in deze statistieken zitten.
Overinflated real estate market, need to work to 70+ for a basic pension, social media destroying real life social skills, basic things like food and energy being super expensive, nightlife and social life in general getting worse, multiculturalism and all problems it entails, etc
Of course young people struggle, this is no surprise
Geheel terecht.
They probably realized they are going to have to work for the next 50 years and still won’t be able to afford a home or retirement.
so what changed compared to 5 years ago?
What do you expect if you don’t replace retired employees or cut back teams in the name of ‘efficiency’. Even if a company makes record profits they still find an excuse to lay off workers because “our competitors do it too”.
Old person here … I know a lion in the mist 😂 pretty sure I’ve been burned out a few times and just ‘powered through it’ because it was the done thing. You don’t show weakness etc. What I and a lot of my generation learned too late is that ‘the company doesn’t give a shit about you’ they just want their pound of flesh or ‘productivity’ as they call it. There’s nothing wrong is taking a breath / beat, and recharging yourself. I also think there’s been a long period of ‘good years’ where there wasn’t any recession or real struggle, but over the last few years we’ve been on the cusp of a recession (in a recession but no one’s calling it for some reason) and that doesn’t help. Young people these days have challenges to contend with that we didn’t, AI / Automation all putting pressure on a dwindling job market. Then there’s the salary progression over the last 15 years it’s not exactly kept up with inflation, and it shows on basic things like food. Owning your own house in the 80’s & 90’s used to be almost a right, now you are lucky if you can rent a dump from a slumlord that has 50 other properties. The wealth seems to have pooled at the top and everyone else is fighting for the table scraps. So in short it’s all fucked, you’re fucked, we’re fucked everyone is fucked unless you have rich relatives that die and leave you money 🤷🏻♂️ – thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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Well, I mean… *gestures at everything*
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I can easily explain to business owners that if they run their machines at 100% fulltime, with no maintenance, their machines will break. And there won’t be any waranty.
But for their staff it’s all about “full efficiency”? And then they’re surprised the levels of burnout and absenteisme are through the roof?
I’m glad there aren’t too many “ah the youth is just lazy in MY DAY rabble rabble….”
I teach these kids, i know how they operate. Sure there’s lazies, there always are, but the main issue is apathy. They see their parents working long hours, long days and still struggle to make ends meet so they have a “why even bother” attitude.
But they’re passionate, creative and incredibly smart. Lazy is different from apathy and it’s important to know the difference and act accordingly…
>“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to speak. It is tired, exhausted by itself, and at war with itself. Entirely incapable of stepping outward, of standing outside itself, of relying on the Other, on the world, it locks its jaws on itself; paradoxically, this leads the self to hollow and empty out. It wears itself out in a rat race it runs against itself.”
>― Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft
>“From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century is determined neither by bacteria nor by viruses, but by neurons. Neurological illnesses such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and burnout syndrome mark the landscape of pathology at the beginning of the twenty-first century. They are not infections, but infarctions; they do not follow from the negativity of what is immunologically foreign, but from an excess of positivity. Therefore, they elude all technologies and techniques that seek to combat what is alien.”
>― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
>“What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results.”
>― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
>“Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
Not surprised by this at all.
I’m only 31 and often times I can’t comprehend how I manage to keep on going. I’m tired boss…. The career ahead of me is still so long… By the time I’m old retirement probably won’t even exist anymore.
life expensive, wages often low, work pressure often high. Why are the youth getting depressed?
Bij de tijd: https://www.tijd.be/politiek-economie/belgie/algemeen/fors-meer-twintigers-zitten-thuis-met-depressie-of-burn-out/10609924.html 44 procent stijging in vijf jaar bij werknemers, 70 procent bij zelfstandigen. Ik vermoed dat mensen die deeltijds hervatten ook kog in deze statistieken zitten.
Overinflated real estate market, need to work to 70+ for a basic pension, social media destroying real life social skills, basic things like food and energy being super expensive, nightlife and social life in general getting worse, multiculturalism and all problems it entails, etc
Of course young people struggle, this is no surprise
Geheel terecht.
They probably realized they are going to have to work for the next 50 years and still won’t be able to afford a home or retirement.
so what changed compared to 5 years ago?
What do you expect if you don’t replace retired employees or cut back teams in the name of ‘efficiency’. Even if a company makes record profits they still find an excuse to lay off workers because “our competitors do it too”.
Old person here … I know a lion in the mist 😂 pretty sure I’ve been burned out a few times and just ‘powered through it’ because it was the done thing. You don’t show weakness etc. What I and a lot of my generation learned too late is that ‘the company doesn’t give a shit about you’ they just want their pound of flesh or ‘productivity’ as they call it. There’s nothing wrong is taking a breath / beat, and recharging yourself. I also think there’s been a long period of ‘good years’ where there wasn’t any recession or real struggle, but over the last few years we’ve been on the cusp of a recession (in a recession but no one’s calling it for some reason) and that doesn’t help. Young people these days have challenges to contend with that we didn’t, AI / Automation all putting pressure on a dwindling job market. Then there’s the salary progression over the last 15 years it’s not exactly kept up with inflation, and it shows on basic things like food. Owning your own house in the 80’s & 90’s used to be almost a right, now you are lucky if you can rent a dump from a slumlord that has 50 other properties. The wealth seems to have pooled at the top and everyone else is fighting for the table scraps. So in short it’s all fucked, you’re fucked, we’re fucked everyone is fucked unless you have rich relatives that die and leave you money 🤷🏻♂️ – thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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