Indeed. I've actually explained to customers at times (if they seem amenable to it, or at least likely to at worst take it as a joke) that since I'm a knowledge worker, in actuality, most of what they're paying for me to do is sleep, since my “inventory” consists mostly of mental energy and related states which get regenerated mostly via sleeping enough (and other related things, but it's a useful metonym). I get the impression large sectors of mainstream tech industry do have a way of burning everyone out whenever they can, and then just arranging everything so that hobbling along on the resultant fumes doesn't hurt anyone but the peons. It's kind of scary.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-06-11 04:20 am (UTC)Indeed. I've actually explained to customers at times (if they seem amenable to it, or at least likely to at worst take it as a joke) that since I'm a knowledge worker, in actuality, most of what they're paying for me to do is sleep, since my “inventory” consists mostly of mental energy and related states which get regenerated mostly via sleeping enough (and other related things, but it's a useful metonym). I get the impression large sectors of mainstream tech industry do have a way of burning everyone out whenever they can, and then just arranging everything so that hobbling along on the resultant fumes doesn't hurt anyone but the peons. It's kind of scary.
Oh well.