'You just need to prioritize': Employee told that they need to "prioritize" better after being overworked for years, decides to prioritize their sanity and quits

This story will ring all too true for many an overworked employee: Watching an overworked team spiral downwards as attrition leads to more team members leaving and not being replaced, leading to even more work being piled onto the remaining team members. Meanwhile, middle and upper management are looking at their decreasing cost of labor and already counting the bonuses they're going to be receiving for increasing profits. Meanwhile, their teams approach ever closer to breaking, and their pleas for help and more staff are met only with being told that they need to "prioritize" their tasks better and work on their "time management."

This IT professional, who had over ten years of experience working in the industry, ended up working for an organization that was initially attractive due to the people they were working with. Understaffing eventually began to take its toll, as it always does in a gradual, almost unnoticeable sense. 

Almost in the same way that the slow-rising temperatures of a pot of water on the stove slowly begin to reach a boiling point…