Career Burnout Gifts

"I'm sick and tired of 'Generally Accepted Accounting Principles'."

"I don't know how much longer I can last. I may have to drop out." . . . "But honey ... you're the teacher."

'A computer virus infected my work e-mails. Now they are all sent to the junk folder and are automatically deleted. I have never had so much free time.'

Sports Radio in Crisis

"Being a doctor really ages you - that was me three years and 4,217 prior authorizations ago."

Micro Managed to Death

"You don’t seem happy here."

Career.

'Not caught you at a bad time,I hope,Maxwell?'

'I don't know who I am anymore.'

"I drink to wean myself off dependency on work."

IN box...OUT is wastepaper basket on fire.

"I figure if I was still employed, I wouldn’t get to spend all this time with you!"

"This is nice … let’s not hop again tomorrow."

Working Holiday

"They've hiked up our targets again...I'm going to have to put in some overtime to have any chance of meeting them!"

Another day at work would be one too many...

"Yes, six to seven weeks is my life expectancy! Once I learned that, I thought, the hell with it, I'll stop working and start travelling..."

"Well, all the symptoms of just another typical case of burnout, I'm afraid."

Man running in a hamster wheel

"We offer a generous flex time policy - you can work your 90 hours per week any way you'd like."

Stressed over time management

Job satisfaction comes from doing what you enjoy, without the boss finding out.

"I think that might have been one deadline too many for Tim!"

"Is there an option to make my out-of-office message permanent?"

"I haven't felt that overwhelming urge to create, but then again I haven't felt much of anything lately."

'All right, Hargreaves, you've made your point clear.'

How to recover from a bad day

"If you're not on the brink of despair you're part of the problem"

Stress Clinic: 'Stepped out to smell the roses.'

'The trouble with success is that the formula is the same for a nervous breakdown.'

"I don't think we can put off dealing with 'presenteeism' any longer."

'I need tomorrow off to recharge my batteries.'

Pre-vacation-burn-out radiology reports.

Doctor sleeps in a patients bed.