Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I shouldn't have to drug myself to cope with the stress of constantly half-assed released, features getting pushed in without thought, and 3AM pagerduty alarms because of these things.

We will likely see a large cohort of people who got into tech in the mid 2000s dying off from stress related disease.



My wife is a critical care nurse, and she used to work at a hospital in an area with a lot of tech workers about five years ago. She saw a lot of heart attacks in men in their late thirties and early forties that she rarely saw elsewhere.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: