It feels too much like memeposting. It sidesteps actual issues like burnout and dissatisfaction over long periods of time, frustration with commutes. These are all concrete issues that leave people feeling this way, and could be talked about distinctly and purposefully.

To me, it seems dismissive to just ask "Who wants to be fired?" when there have been those whom we've lost to suicide or cardiac events from being overworked and overlooked. It's just not right to reduce that problem to "haha, fire me, durrr"

I had a friend of a friend in NY some years ago not show up to work, and my friend was weirded out because it was unusual. The guy was some director of account management or something at Goldman, and he jumped in front of a train around Canarsie or somewhere. Guy had a wife and a newborn and a toddler. This stuff really happens, in my experience.

Finance is insane.

My uncle worked backend systems for a trading floor in the 90s. His last straw was when a vendor CE died in the datacenter, iirc of a heart attack during an early morning repair. Someone called 911 when he was discovered, but the fire/ems guys got into a fight with the management and security and stormed off.

They ended up getting threatened to complete the repair or get fired and rolled the dude into a cold corner of the datacenter, where he sat for several hours.

That's unbelievable, and yet, entirely believable. Wow. I'm sorry he was a part of that, and I'm glad he got out. It's such a nasty, awful industry. I've done some report generation stuff for banks (way before they called it data science) and it was strange being around people who were so highly strung and odd. I mean, there's parts of their personalities that just gave off "I could snap any moment" vibes.

Anyhow. Yeah. Finance sucks. They ought to make it illegal to work more than 40hrs in that industry, right away.

I understand, but as somebody who has wanted to be fired, I value the stories. It lets me know that I'm not the only one in my industry with these kinds of feelings.