I am so serious about my plan to recover from burnout that for the first time in my life – the first time! In my life! – I placed one of those “I will be on vacation until March 16 and will answer your message after that” on my email.
This came after a day-long email exchange with a colleague that reminded me of a Soviet joke about a very full tram in Odessa.
“Comrade, are you getting off on the next stop?”
“Yes, I am.”
“How about the people in front of you? Are they getting off?”
“Yes.”
“How do you know? Did you ask them?”
“Yes, I asked them.”
“And what did they say?”
Turns out it’s a lot less charming when it happens to you in real life.
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