#burnout

I have worked at a few places, but this one takes the prize for how drained it leaves me. You can put in steady effort and still walk away feeling invisible. Folks talk about support, yet no one shows it when it matters. Lately I feel like I am just pushing through the days to get by.

The whole place feels stretched thin because we’re missing people on the floor and in management, and it shows every day.

It's Monday, and I'm still depressed and nonproductive. The weekend was no better. I hope other's are having a better day.

The primary method of problem resolution here is time-based: solve every issue with excessive hours and involvement, only to face the identical issue again soon after. The organization values quantity of labor over quality of insight.

Authority and recognition seem heavily weighted toward those who endure the longest hours in this specific, insular environment. The standard expectation of 60+ hours feels like a metric for compliance rather than genuine innovation.

Many core functions rely on deeply entrenched internal processes that are often inefficient or could be replaced by widely accepted industry standards. There is a clear pattern of confusing labor with effective problem-solving—the actual value of a top engineer is in recognizing patterns and defining the correct challenge.

This model rewards effort over efficiency.

The skills fostered here appear to be highly specialized to this internal ecosystem, and those relying solely on them would struggle to compete in the broader tech industry.

The environment fosters a kind of emptiness—a focus solely on the job to the exclusion of personal life or intellectual development. Pattern recognition and proactive problem avoidance are disincentivized.

Those with external options should prioritize a strategic exit immediately.

Anyone else burned out? Skeleton crews, no coverage, questions about things we have no control over, no training... It's getting old

Things never change with this company! Each year, our hours keep getting shorter, yet the workload remains the same, and they still expect everything to be completed. They assume salaried managers will handle it all, but those who work the hardest often burn out quickly. Meanwhile, others seem to get by without any consequences. If you were hoping to earn some extra money for the holidays, be aware that you might only be scheduled to work the day after Thanksgiving—and only if there are call-outs from permanent employees.

You are an entry on a spreadsheet. Nothing more. Your work, attendance, team spirit, participation in HR childish buffoonery, none of it matters. None.

Give the least amount of effort possible, and when you decide to walk for a different/better job because you no longer expect to spend a decade or more at one company, just walk out. No two weeks, no notice, nothing. Just a note and your all your equipment in a box.

You. Owe. Them. NOTHING.

Not "just this once." Not to help out. Just don't. They're counting on it. Let them feel the consequences of their actions for once when things don't get done.

Folks with 10+ years tenure…who can say they’re enjoying themselves right now? How many are merely holding on in the hope of redundancy? Anyone contemplating a future beyond the IT industry?

Am I alone?

Until I read Mike's email

As someone who was bought into his new leadership until reading that it was very disappointing to see the disconnection from reality

Am already working 11-12 hour days 5 days a week without enough time to do everything as we are chronically understaffed and 90% of my time is spent dealing with issues that are a direct result of poor systems in place that have only ever been band aid fixed at best.

There is dead weight at fiserv who should be axed. But majority of people are hard working and doing the best they can with the systems available to them and until reading that email were quite energised at the thought of help being on the way.

Instead they were just told to do more work with no other changes apart from empty catch phrases.

So disappointing and upsetting to read.

I’ve noticed not many coming into nj office even though I’m coming daily. Is there a rule to not come or work home? I’m getting drained.

I regret the moment I decided to join QCOM. My health is getting worse every day I spend here.

Leaving is not a simple decision. I have been here for a year. Jumping ships would me look unemployable and the job market su-ks anyways.

I feel trapped.

This was supposed to be temporary and somehow it morphed into permanent situation. Now I don't know what to do and how to put a stop to it but I do know if I don't, I'll burn out and quit - which is a horrible options since I have nothing lined up. Learn from my mistakes kids and don't put yourself into a similar situation just to be helpful.

I’ve tried to stay on the positive side of this for a long time. It is quickly fading.

Too many initiatives, not enough people to drive them and not enough time to manage people effectively.

When you wake up and dread coming to work each morning, it’s time to do something different.

Since the rumors started, my workload has exploded. I was already busy in my role, but now other work groups have been piling meetings and projects onto my calendar—almost as if they’re trying to prove how “busy” they are.

At this point, I’m sitting in 8–10 hours of back-to-back meetings most days.

As if anyone is actually checking calendars to make decisions. 😂

I’m done with RTO for the rest of the year. Seriously. This whole 5 day grind has drained every ounce of motivation I had left. If we aren’t back to a sane hybrid schedule next year, I’m out. No hesitation. No second guessing.

I love my work, I’m good at it, and I’ve given this place more than enough chances to get its act together. But I’m not sacrificing my health, my time, or my sanity for a policy that does nothing but burn people out and push talent out the door.

Fix it or lose the people who actually keep this place running. The clock’s ticking.

I’ve watched this place grind people down for years and it still feels the same. I don’t expect anything from here anymore, just a regular paycheck. It’s strange staying somewhere you can’t stand, but work is work. I’m keeping my head down until something better lines up.

Job hunting after work feels like having two full time jobs. I shut one laptop just to open another and hope the next application is the one that finally clicks. And none of them do. Are others having more luck than I?

Makes me wonder why I ever bothered. I regret every bit of overtime, every extra effort, and most of all, being invested in project outcomes. Nothing ever paid off. Yet I can get cut on a whim.

It cracks me up how people talk about teamwork at TD like it’s some magical thing happening every day. Most of us are just patching holes and trying to keep things from falling apart while a few folks float from chat to chat. We stay because life outside the job is expensive, not because we want to be here. I've been here long enough to remember the time when that wasn't the case, but it certainly is now.

If they hadn’t gutted my team to the point where we’re barely functioning, this wouldn’t even be an issue. There’s only so much workload you can pile onto fewer and fewer people before everything implodes. And honestly, why would any of us go above and beyond anymore? We’ve seen time and again that the reward for hard work is watching your job get cut anyway.

I can barely drag myself out of bed on workdays, and I dread coming in. Burnt out doesn’t even begin to cover it. I’ve worked at several companies before, and this has been the most toxic, exhausting, and unrewarding experience of them all. At this point, I’m willing to face a brutal job market and even a long stretch of unemployment if it means protecting my mental and physical health.

We need at least four days each week to recover from this place and what it puts us through on a daily basis.

Greedy AI investment with un realistic expectations burned out IT team. IT teams started digging hole for all store and core employees, ended up digging too many. Now it's time to burry them all including the one who dug it in the first place.
Irony is, Now everyone is asking AI will they be on the list.

Just a quick reminder that while we’re all committed to collaboration, scheduling meetings at 4 a.m. feels less like ‘flexibility’ and more like a hostage situation. Work–life balance shouldn’t require night vision goggles. Unless the building is on fire or we’re launching a rocket, no one should be required to function professionally at that hour.

We’ve been asking for help for months. Now suddenly there are going to be more layoffs, and we could lose even more people? If that happens, I’ll quit myself. I’m already doing the work of three people. I can’t do any more. There aren’t enough hours in a day, and to be honest, I don’t want to. I’m done being treated like a robot and expected to do more with less all the time.

I’ve got too many bills, too many people counting on me, and zero energy left to care about work. Some days I’m scared I’ll snap at the wrong person and regret it. I used to like what I did, now I’m just trying not to lose it.

I used to be happy working for Dell, but I feel stuck now—I can’t quit because of financial commitments and the years I’ve invested, waiting for the payout.

My organization is full of imposters being carried from quarter to quarter. Other teams are being squeezed so much that disgruntled—or maybe just demotivated—workers often ignore you.

Support teams are being shut down. We’re forced to abandon tools that work and adopt others that mostly don’t. And then there’s the bootlickers posting LinkedIn fluff or resharing corporate ads.

There are still good people at Dell, many of whom feel the same way. But most of us stay silent, shaking our heads at the mess this company has become. We know the end game.

Management tells us to “play the game,” but why should we be as spineless as they are? If we didn’t play along, maybe things wouldn’t be this way. Why make it easy for them to bully us into submission?

I used to dread seeing an HR meeting appear in my calendar. Now, I almost long for it. The lucky ones are those who got to leave—not us, the ones stuck working in this toxic environment where doing more with less is the expectation.

I’m burnt out.

... it's do even more with almost nothing! Anyone else exhausted??

Now I’m anxious, depressed, and numb. Every single day I get more work with a "do this or else" attached to it. I'm starting not to care anymore. What are they going to do, fire me? By now, that seems like a better option than continuing to work here.

I used to like working here. Dell's new approach is to squeeze everyone until they break, then act (emphases on act) surprised when people leave. They crack the whip, throw fear around, shorten deadlines, and generally do all they can to make everybody's lives miserable. Watching it day after day is exhausting and depressing.

My manager keeps giving my ideas to someone else, ignores my requests, and subtly pushes me aside. I could stew about it, but I decided a good old "fu-k it” is better for my health. After years of hard work, I’m finally done letting this toxic nonsense eat me alive.

So the new gimmick for the UR nurses is to hire bedside nurses with no experience in casemanagememt or utilization review, skim over what is required for the job and lie to the individual about what is required. So 16 to 22 reviews, no lunches , a hurried break, stay overtime , listen to a psychotic manager who is only interested in the metrics so she can get a big bonus, hide your head under a rock and pretend you don’t see all the what could be considered frau:;(, work overtime and listen to everyone tell you your burned out in 6 months cause you don’t know how to be productive and organize your time and work for a fraction of what you make at other companies and hospitals.

This company is ki-ling my mental. The inconsistencies between LOBs, multiple booking, originating, and servicing systems for a single loan, lack of accountability for not adhering to policy (changing rules, testing methodology vs behaviors) to manage results, constant turnover, not uploading documents in a timely manner, 1 million conflicting procedures, job aids, and department emails, broken and outdated links, lack of full integration of systems and procedures. I know all of us are waiting for an employee friendly job market so that we can escape chaos.

The situation in the GIST department has become absolutely horrible. Everyone is completely burned out and depressed. There are always tons of calls waiting in the queue. We’re the third shift, only about 7 to 12 people working for the entire world — the US, the Americas, Europe, everywhere.

We’re not allowed to have more than two minutes of after-call, and we can’t stay “away” on Teams for even a second. It’s just nonstop calls, one after another, for eight hours straight, with no breathing room. We barely have time to write proper notes on the cases because two minutes simply isn’t enough.

Each of us handles more than 30 technical calls a day, and these are not short calls. I’ve worked in other call centers before, but I’ve never seen anything like this — this one is pure madness. We’re treated like machines, not people.

We’ve been complaining to management for months, and they know exactly what’s going on, but they still refuse to hire more staff. On top of that, we’re taking calls in all languages — English, French, German, — and it makes no sense. Half of the team is depressed, and people are so desperate that they keep calling in sick. It’s absolutely impossible to move to another department.

This place has become unbearable.

Curious if anyone else in support feels miserable. What's your experience?

There’s been talk, from a source I trust, that leadership has been exploring workforce reductions. The numbers being floated include cuts of 15% up to roughly a quarter (25%) of staff under each director across most departments. The focus appears to be aggressive cost savings, and part of that includes looking at compensation levels and where employees are in their career timelines. Officially, they can’t say that’s a factor, but it’s being quietly discussed.

What’s even more concerning is that some highly skilled employees are being targeted not because of performance, but because they don’t fit in with their immediate manager’s preferences, push back against the status quo, or are seen as difficult simply for having a different perspective. If someone isn’t aligned with their leader or is viewed as inconvenient when numbers need to be met, they become an easy choice.

It’s incredibly hard on the people who consistently show up, do exceptional work, and still go unrecognized especially when they’re not being supported or advocated for by leadership. This year feels different. The impact will be left on the shoulders of the people that are left behind, overwhelmed, burning out, and losing their sense of pride in the workplace. But with cost cutting being seen as 'essential' to the business, this is the direction things seem to be heading.

RVP’S and GvPs are told to churn and burn all store managers and associates

Push as many people out as possible (managers included) get em out, get em in at a lower pay rate

They now want frequent turnover to keep costs down, always hiring at a lower pay rate

The quality of the person they hire does not matter as long as they are low cost

Some people won’t quit, so they increase workload, micromanaging, favoritism, ect….you see this at belk time and time again

It will only get worse

Get out if you can is my only advice

Aren’t we supposed to be resetting to focus on long term stability? Online banking is a zoo of impossible deadlines and angry bosses plus end of the year work coming due. It’s miserable right now.

Forced on-site work for most teams, useless middle management, directors/VPs getting to switch shoes and retain/upgrade their salaries despite abysmal failures in the orgs they preside over, corporate leaders throwing out dead and played-out initiatives that also fail constantly (because they are all outdated, obsolete, and largely ineffective), morale in he-l, frustration across departments boiling over from increased workloads and decrease team sizes causing burnout. I'm sure there are others to add to the litany, but I'm wondering, when does the straw break across the camel's back and we take back power as employees. Do we continue to drink the koolaid or speak up and pushback on these incompetent leaders and processes? Please, if you feel or deal with any of this, it is time to start writing letters or something. This cannot continue. We're in the age of modernization yet things feel so artificially dystopian. Do not play the side lines. Make your voices heard!