Steph

“The way that we live, the way that we're conditioned, the patriarchy, capitalist, white supremacy. Those systems are all designed to keep the masses knackered so that the chosen few at the top can be successful and can gain from our labor”
― Tamu Thomas, Women Who Work Too Much

“The idea of a pension was not, and is not, extravagant. It's premised on the idea that some of the profits you help produce for a company should not go to stockholders, or the CEO, back back to longtime workers, who would continue to receive a portion of their salary even after they retire. In essence, the worker committed years of their life to making the company profitable; the company then commits some extra years of its profits to the employee.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

“You wouldn't plant a flower in toxic soil and expect it to thrive. So why in the world would you expect the same of yourself?”
― Selina Barker, Burnt Out: The Exhausted Person's Six-Step Guide to Thriving in a Fast-Paced World

“Workaholics turn vacations into work, too. We've also seen how the time around vacations becomes especially important to workaholics, who become consumed with the idea that they have to work harder before and after to make up for the time off”
― Malissa Clark, Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business--and How to Fix It