So the author was actually unemployed for 6+ months with no schedule or routine, allowing him to slip further into his depression without any kind of schedule or routine.
Starts working physical job (endorphins are great and can have positive impacts on depression) with a rigid schedule (schedules can also be very good for helping one overcome major depressive episodes!). And works it for about two months.
So...actually being exploited by one of the most profitable companies in the world is a good thing and it will apparently cure our mental health problems! Thanks for the hot-tips, tech executive and Business Insider! I guess I'll just quit my job and go wreck my body working in a warehouse and trying to keep up with Amazon's minimum daily pack requirements.
There's a kernel of truth at the core of this article in terms of how changing jobs radically can get one out of a funk, or even getting a job after being unemployed can have mental health benefits. But it's very generalized and this is, frankly, a pretty terrible, awful, no-good example of this told in a pretty terrible, awful, no-good way.
He sorta tries, but it really reads like a bad episode of "Undercover boss" where the boss gets like halfway to learning the lesson but doesn't quite make it.
Greaterdivinity t1_iu0gaef wrote
Reply to I Took an Amazon Warehouse Job to Cure My Burnout by Mynameis__--__
Jesus christ BI has the worst articles.
So the author was actually unemployed for 6+ months with no schedule or routine, allowing him to slip further into his depression without any kind of schedule or routine.
Starts working physical job (endorphins are great and can have positive impacts on depression) with a rigid schedule (schedules can also be very good for helping one overcome major depressive episodes!). And works it for about two months.
So...actually being exploited by one of the most profitable companies in the world is a good thing and it will apparently cure our mental health problems! Thanks for the hot-tips, tech executive and Business Insider! I guess I'll just quit my job and go wreck my body working in a warehouse and trying to keep up with Amazon's minimum daily pack requirements.
There's a kernel of truth at the core of this article in terms of how changing jobs radically can get one out of a funk, or even getting a job after being unemployed can have mental health benefits. But it's very generalized and this is, frankly, a pretty terrible, awful, no-good example of this told in a pretty terrible, awful, no-good way.
He sorta tries, but it really reads like a bad episode of "Undercover boss" where the boss gets like halfway to learning the lesson but doesn't quite make it.