Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
by Impossible on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:12AM
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If you're talking about US chattel slavery, your comparison is way off base and you should probably edit your post. Instead of firing an "underperforming" slave they could be legally murdered. Because all descendants were owned by the master indefinitely they could freely breed and rape "top performers" like animals in order to produce more slaves. When we end up with a corporate system that allows for that level of control of life or death in normal circumstances then maybe you can make your comparison. Institutionalized burn out is not it though.
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Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
by abacadaba on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:32AM
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Yes but slaves were expensive. You'd go broke if you just murdered all of them.
Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
by Impossible on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:14AM
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Ok torture them into submission then. Still significantly worse than burning someone out in a modern corporate job.
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Re:Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'
by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:41AM
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Read Huckelberry Finn, Jim was treated relatively well, however his family was sold away from him, he did not get to see his wife or daughter because it was valuable to the Widow to sell them. Finally he was going to be sold anyway, to somewhere where he would have the high probability of not being treated relatively well. To be treated relatively well as a slave was a living hell, or as it is generally called, slavery.
Damn, I suppose now someone is going to complain about long working hours meaning you never get to see your family anyway.