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Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says (www.businessinsider.com)
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High stress and job insecurity have many tech executives turning to alcohol and controlled substances to cope, a new survey says.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When it's tech execs, they are "stressed out". If this about regular people the title would say they are alcoholics and drug addicts.

And that wouldn't even be inaccurate. You don't take pain killers for stress. If they wanted to manage stress, they would be taking benzos. They are just drug addicts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-exec tech worker here. It’s benzos, weed, and alcohol thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Add some white powder to cover all emotional states

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You make a good point, but benzos can reduce productivity, which is why a lot of us turn to pain killers. I stay far away from pain killers because they are a really bad trap thats almost impossible to get out of. But like you said, anyone using drugs to cope is also a drug addict. But pretty much all drug addicts are doing it for the same reason, to cope with their life or try to run from their pain. People don't just become drug addicts, there is usually something that pushes them into it (like the stress of their job).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Their “stress” is also bullshit. A rich guy being worried about his pile of gold getting smaller is not the same as a struggling mother worrying about feeding her kids, or a miner worried about a cave-in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stress is relative to your own personal conditions. It's not absolute. A tech executive might have a nice house and financial security, but if he's working 80 hours/week under intense pressure to meet some deadline, that's still stressful. Nobody wants to be perceived as a failure at work, even if their personal financial consequences for failure are minimal.

Your argument seems to imply it's impossible to feel stress if you're comfortable in life. Even the poorest Americans can count on access to food, clean running water, electricity, internet, etc. For most of humanity's existence, and still today in some parts of the world, these would be considered enormous luxuries, so anyone with access to them would be seen as extremely comfortable in life. Clearly though, people can still be stressed out despite having access to these sorts of things that most of history would consider luxurious.

Stress is relative, not absolute.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even the poorest Americans can count on access to food, clean running water, electricity, internet, etc

Millions of Americans can't actually...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The mind is not logical or attached to others suffering. It’s the same stress response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The stress isn't about money, but having to be responsible for an organization.

I get that it isn't the same as the stress of a poor single mother, but it isn't like there is no stress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah honestly I'm not surprised, they can probably use their piles of cash to wipe away their tears. I work for a very large company as an SDE and when asked about how I feel about the manager track, I am met with awkward silence when I say I absolutely do not want that path. My manager probably doesn't make a ton more than me, but they work at least 2x the hours with way more stress. Not worth it. These people chose these lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup, senior IC here, been getting roped into more "manager" type stuff but fuck me are those things obnoxious. Perf reviews, budgeting, promos, god damn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea my next promo is senior and honestly I'm probably just going to take that for the title and then fuck off. Based on my team's current seniors it's exactly how you describe it. Basically just manager light.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah... A lot of time they don't offer enough money to make that switch IMHO

Offering as some sort of privilege. Bitch you want me to take that shit on, show me the money

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet that the stats are higher for the folks in the trenches below them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stop wasting time and keep the conversation relevant. We're only concerned with the wellbeing of rich people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What makes this extra fun is the corps and media saying there's going to be a recession "any day now" for 11 goddamned months straight. My job is OK but my company is stable and I'm not going to leave just to get laid off the day after "any day now"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

TIL I'm qualified to be a tech exec

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

pfff, exec's have always had substance abuse problems. it's so common that it even shows up in films (Harry Ellis, Die Hard)