There's no feeling like constantly being behind the ball, especially when that ball is a heavy boulder that you're pushing up a hill… Only to have it roll back down once you've reached the top, forcing you to start over, over and over again. The Greeks regarded this tortuous task as suitable eternal punishment for misdeeds like murder and cheating the gods themselves. Nowadays, we just call it "employment."
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The thing is, even Sisyphus himself didn't have to deal with Hades assigning him an ever-increasing number of boulders of endlessly increasing size—but employees find themselves forced to handle an ever-increasing workload. And the reality is that your manager's unrealistic expectations about how much work you should be doing are going to make you hate your job… and your entire existence.
When this worker attempted to talk to their boss about their already-too-high workload, their boss responded by telling them that they were about to have two more projects placed in their hands. Their boss had underestimated just how close to breaking point the worker was, and the worker resigned on the spot in response.
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