Everyone is saying this, everyone has already said this, everyone will continue to say this for the foreseeable future, but it still needs saying: massive academic burnout is comin’. We cannot normalize treating pathological overwork as something to be praised or celebrated.
Exhibit A: A narrative of, You think *you*’re working too hard? We’re all working too hard. Suck it up, Buttercup: if your teaching sucks this fall then students will be dissatisfied, then they’ll leave the university, then their $$ will leave the university…
…then we’ll have to have more dramatic budget cuts, then people will lose jobs and it’ll be YOUR fault because you sucked because you didn’t work hard enough to not suck.
Exhibit B: Institutional praising of overwork and/or public displays of gratitude for the same
Exhibit C: A working environment where every professional interaction is about crisis on some level & involves the sharing of experiences of overwork as a way of normalizing them, sometimes with extra added bonus implied critique of those who aren't choosing to exhaust themselves
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