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I've seen this sort of thing with software developers/engineers.... good managers should be ensuring they have the correct amount of work. Too little, and they get bored, and could've been helping to get stuff done. Too much, and they'll burn out and/or miss deadlines. In the case of burnout, many of them will start looking for other work. The bigger issue with them isn't so much not being able to find work, but more so of being underpaid, but if they're burning out now, they won't mind taking a paycut if it means not having to constantly exceed 60 hour weeks and having enough time to go home, get stuff done, and take vacations when planned for.
Yes, my husband is a Mechanical Engineer. He gets paid well, but the traveling is rough. Since the accident he has really cut back, but sometimes I need to remind him of everything he and I have gone through!
If you are truly burnt out, then yes you should say something.
Sometimes managers will continue to drop more and more responsibilities on you because you are succeeding. They don't know when you are at your capacity until you tell them. A good manager will understand that they need to limit the amount of work they give you if they want it done effectively. I recently had to do this with my manager, and ended up being promoted and some of my old work was pushed to another co-worker who wasn't as busy. By balancing my workload a bit, the burn out died down and I was able to more effectively do the work he assigned to me.
The main objective is to communicate. They need to know what you can handle and you need to be honest about it. Do your best and try to tackle whatever they give you but if it eventually degrades your level of performance then you need to do ensure they are aware of the issue.
Depends on the job! My husband travels a lot for work. He was in China 16 days straight working 15 hour days. His boss and co-workers would also call him in the middle of the night back in the states to ask him questions giving him maybe 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night. There's a 13 hour time difference. When he flew home he got 4 hours of sleep before going into the office. He was going to take off but since we were leaving for vacation in a few days he was denied time off to adjust to the time difference. The flight is 13 hours, plus the 13 hour time difference. He fell asleep at the wheel on the way home from work the next day due to exhaustion. He had multiple facial fractures (car totaled) and has since had 4 facial reconstructive surgeries. He is alive and doing good, but DAMN right henow tells his boss when he is exhausted and they WANT to know! He could have died in that car accident or killed someone. Thank God he didn't!!
No...absolutely not! Do not trust anyone...even your BFF at work. When the pressure from the boss is on them, they will use anything they know about you and everyone else to defend themselves. You learn a lot from experience.
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