Or if you need more resources, can be a lot harder on a friday evening or weekend to get ahold of someone else to help.

Assuming they don’t have an actual life and aren’t somewhere touching grass.

I’ve worked with several people who either confessed to or were accused of having taken up pastimes that would guarantee they weren’t available during times they shouldn’t be expected to be available.

Management gets rewarded for getting more work out of us and there’s always someone pushing boundaries trying to leach a little more work out of the staff they have. These same people seem to think burnout is a big mystery, because to admit they caused the problem would be to admit they did something wrong.