and in the back of their head, right, they’ve started the spiral already. they’re telling themselves, “oh my god, I haven’t really shipped anything in a while. what I need to do is work harder. I’ll just work hard enough. I’ll save this and no one will know.” like, “in the next week, I’ll do a whole month’s work. and no one will know.” they’ll start losing sleep, all of that. and it sucks, because bro, they start getting depressed, missing meals. their relationships suffer, both work and personal. and they just start spiraling, spiraling, and it ends up in worst-case scenarios. they burn out, they need to take a month off, they get PIP’d, they get fired, they quit their jobs because they think, “you know what, this is not salvageable.” and it really sucks.

Yep I accidentally did this. Would not recommend.