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Mental Health
- Feel so stuck! - My close friends whom I hang out regularly have left town over the past few months. - my very close colleagues at work have left the company or changed teams. - Me and my gf are LDR. Thinking about breaking up with her. - No growth (Tc and career wise) at my current job. Too tired to LC and lea
- chronically depressed dude sometimes feels good🤠 life is a funny thing man. when my rich, silver-spoon-fed cousin bought an Audi (etron hybrid) a few years ago, I hated the fact I was driving Kias. copped a Tesla this last fall, paid cash & haven’t touched a gas pump since. his parents own $20m+ homes, mine are on food stamps. looking back on my
- vote Do you feel ashamed of taking FMLA on a PIP? FMLA is often the first advice you see on Blind in case of PIP, Focus or Pivot. However, many people feel uneasy about taking it. Many people realize it's more difficult to qualify than portrayed on Blind, quite difficult to find someone to support your leave and declare you mentally disabled for a
- lost $2,200 on gambling Blackjack at a casino I lost 8 hands in a row..while betting like a maniac. Played for 3-4 hours but the last 15 minutes were brutal.. i was chasing the loss (-$500). I felt ok but ever since I woke up this morning, I feel so low.
- Can anyone share their experiences with cognitive behavioral therapy? I have always lived in my head a lot - constant overthinking, worrying, ruminating. Over time I have figured out how to cope with some of these emotions to prevent them from dominating my life. I went through a phase of reading a lot of self help books and self development videos and while some were
- Are these signs of burnout? I thought I was not motivated but it looks like I might be burned out. 1. I don't feel like working. I have no motivation at all. 2. I am lethargic. I don't feel any energy and I just sleep whenever I get free time. 3. I keep over thinking. 4. I see my work has no meaning. I am not even learning.
- Burntout as DevOps / CloudOps Hi, I have 1 - 3 years of experience in this domain. My current role encompasses both DevOps as well as CloudOps. I love writing tooling for internal dev teams and other stakeholders using AWS services. But the CloudOps works gives me extreme anxiety and the constant context switching exhausts me
- What cheers you up no matter how down you are? .
- First bigtech job: lots of anxiety and stress Hello all, I start with Microsoft in 3 weeks as l61. I will start remote and then move but my team is split in Atlanta and Redmond and I am in Atlanta but manager and skip are not. This is going to be my first big tech job. I should be really happy and proud due to tc jump but I am very afraid of b
- Any other ADHDs burnt out by RTTO? Why is commuting and working in an office so hard even with adderall
- vote Special Needs School Districts What are some of the best special needs school districts in bay area. Specially in Santa Clara county. Palo Alto area out of reach. Do not have that much of money.#mentalhealth #autism
- What’s your happy place ? As title says..
- Feeling very lonely lately. Is this what mid life crisis that people talk about? I met some distant relatives last weekend and I felt I am meeting someone who is my own after so long and it made me emotional. Of course I don’t display it to anyone but that day it hit me different. I don’t have many relatives who are alive so never had much family kind of environment since child
- Where is it legal to buy shrooms? And consume it too. #depression #mentalhealth #burnout
- Losing passion and motivation A couple of years ago I used to take full ownership of my service and drive everything. Used to help out my manager in distributing tasks and learn on my own, stay up late, try to improve the service and monitor it. Onboard the new developers, help out the new engineers too. I worked at a SMB at tha
- Is my brain fucked up I never know what I want, or how to explain the way I'm feeling. By trying to verbalize what I think I'm feeling, that initial feeling gets lost and jumbled up in my head and I just end up confusing myself. I can't stop overanalyzing my own thoughts. Once I put them in words they just feel wrong. Th
- Tired and drained! I am just extremely tired, drained and unhappy. I was always very conscious of my choices but somehow ended up marrying the wrong guy. Him and his family just drain every ounce of energy I got - no boundaries, unreasonable expectations, just plain negative. I have a divorce in-progress but my family
- Burnt Out Help I am really burnt out and looking for some advice. More time or time off wont help because I already taken time off and I don’t do any work during work days anyways. Everything is uninteresting and bringing myself to do these chores makes me stressed out, unmotivated, and unhappy. I am staying becau
- Toronto weather sucks It's April 18th and it's snowing heavily today. C'mon guys, this shit can't be 5.5 months long. How do you guys enjoy life/ kill time here/ in similar places? TC: 220k
- vote Anybody cracked sleep issues? - So on the days when I get quality sleep, I feel great and am very productive. - I would love to be that productive every single day. - However I usually am not able to get that quality of sleep every single day. And hence I feel cranky and my productivity declines. - I am single and wonder how mar
- vote Who signed off on your mental health FMLA forms? It's always confusing who is required, but it seems like in practice, any of the 3 groups works. #burnout #depression #mentalhealth #anxiety #fmla #stdi #amazonpip #amazonbenefits
- Approaching 30, single and depressed - rant Been in 2 brief relationships. But I have problems with rejection so I don't ask girls out until I'm sure I won't get rejected (teenage trauma) NGL - as an indian male in Bay Area, I know I'm at the bottom of the dating ladder. Not sure what to do. Just want to ball into a corner and disappear som
- vote Do you think therapists (talk psychotherapists) are useful for dealing with work-related stress, or just for FMLA? It's very common for Blinders on PIP to seek help of a mental health talk psychotherapy professionals to secure an FMLA Leave of Absence to seek a new job before the termination. In the age of the internet, anonymous chat boards, and Google, and TeamBlind, and even Reddit, and even things like i-go
- Does anyone else feel like moving to a remote corner of the world and starting over? .
- Should I go home My parents are going through major depression since they lost their both boys 5 years ago. I am living outside the country for 9 months now. I feel their struggle more than ever now but I am away from home for work. Should I leave everything and go home?
- “I'm Thinking of Ending Things” Netflix movie is so relatable Watched “I'm Thinking of Ending Things” Netflix and “Amour” movie ,the dread of getting old is really worrying me . At the end one day we all gonna get old , feeble and weak. What is the plan ? How have you prepared yourself? Every time I think of old-age it gives me shivers
- List of providers for Mental Health related leaves Knowing that Amazon is famous for PIP and mishandling employees in the process, let's create a resource for all looking into getting a diagnosis for FMLA/Medical leave. Reason for creating is that folks know about the process here but none mentions past experiences with a provider in this context.
- Childhood trauma Did any of you get molested by your father? How did you get over it? I pieced everything together very recently and hadn't realized what was happening in my childhood. I want to just let him be in his last days since he is quite old now. TC: 260k
- vote Feeling Anxious and Stressed all the time, Unable to Code, Should I tell my manager? I recently switched teams and moved to US. Even since past three weeks, I have lost all interest in working and am unable to complete even the simplest sprint tasks. Now even if I want to work on them, I can’t focus at all. And more work keeps piling up. I’ve been lying about the status of a simple
- I am drowning in responsibilities and to-do lists… But I just want to avoid all of that and just mindlessly scroll through my phone and watch TV while I just worry. Feels like the life that I had dreamt of is slipping away. Ever felt like that?
- Nothing other than League of Legends is making me happy I find it hard to enjoy life, interacting with people gives me anxiety, I just want to play league all day and then sleep in 5 minutes when I'm dead tired.
- How to stop having addictions? After 5 years in the work force - I can't seem to find peace and happiness. - I always worry about whether I am slacking when I work only 40 hours... - when I try to stop a bad habit, another one starts up again. I rotate between weed, prostitutes, and overeating and I hate when I do this knowing I
- Manager Pressure I cried today infront of my Manager. There has been a lot of pressure for me and manager is giving me the constant termination threats that I could not control myself and suddenly I cried! I really don’t know what can I do next, my manager also left the zoom after this? I don’t know how I’m gonna do
- Why all this? We are all turning to dust in a few years, why we need to go through all these struggles? Eat, shit, sleep, repeat TC: 260k
- Any advice to minimize worriness I usually keep worried about everything work, kids, future ... etc it's very stressful even on vacation my mind keeps pulling topics to worry about. Does anyone have a similar experience what do you do to avoid this?
- Feeling like shit #depression 4 yoe. Working at Amazon for around 2 years. Worked so hard last year, delivered a lot, Manager told me I’m hv3 but my 2022 PCS is only 240k. What a joke. Got offer from DoorDash but down leveled to E4, and their manager is starting a new team, just looks like another sweat shop. Recr
- vote Pregnant men Emoji Will I get banned from Blind?
- It's time to say goodbye That's it guys! I put in my 2-week notice earlier today, and will be leaving after getting the bonus paycheck. I'm so fed up with this rat race, and want a different pace of my life. I've had quite a career ride. Coming to the US as a refugee 20+ year ago, I've had to work 60+ hours/week to pay for
- Wasting my 20’s Currently in my 20’s and feeling like I’m wasting my time. I’m doing very little development (barely writing code for months now) and not actively looking elsewhere/trying to prepare for interviews with Leetcode. I do very little throughout the day and do nothing in the evenings. Anyone else feel
- I have an extremely negative friend and she has been affecting my life Lately she has been calling me quite frequently and spent hours talking to me about her divorce, relationships, ending her life, etc. She called me 6 times yesterday and I stopped answering the phone. I think my next call to her would be to establish a boundaries, possibly ending friendship with he
- Anyone managed ADHD without medication? I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD 4 times. I have skipped 95% of classes in college and graduate school and have completed spaced out during 99% of meetings at work. A few years ago I went on Vyvanse and the side effects (irritable mood, crash, feeling empty) were so horrible that I decided it was not
- It's OK to ask for help. #MentalHealth Just wanted to throw this out there for anyone needing it. I was burnt out, and hosed by some bait and switch leadership. I wasn't just done with that job....I was done done. Had been in a bad work situation, overworked, underpaid, and not appreciated for years. Eventually I went from an over ach
- vote Febreze as Cologne? My date loves the smell of this stuff, and would it be weird to dab a little on my neck before we go out?
- Helping someone with depression #burnout #depression #mentalhealth My partner is seeing a therapist who has diagnosed him with depression . He also works at Amazon. The cause of his depression is not being able to meet people during Covid. He being an extrovert derived all his energy from meeting new people. The second reason dia
- Asking if I had coffee or tea in the morning is not inclusive Ask me my drink preference first and then ask if I had had it TC: 550k YOE: 10+
- My mother seems to be unhappy and I can’t do anything about it, but feel guilty I am an Indian living in US. My parents and married sibling are all live together in India. There have been problems, fights, aggression because of this living arrangement but now my mother have started blaming everyone including my father for not treating her well, even taking her money and putting
- Burnout quiz Take this quiz and report back your number. https://burnoutindex.yerbo.co Mine: 5.3
- Psychedelics. Yay or nay? I’m in my late 20s and I feel like I’m afraid of an ego death. I have always wanted to try shrooms but I feel like I have been too scared to try it out. Thoughts? Anyone else on the same boat?
- Happiness is .. a great live concert Prove me wrong .. maybe it's the 2 years of no live music but I think it has always been true .. there's *nothing* like front row seats to your favorite artist in a large venue.. Elton John, Madison Square Garden, February 23rd, Mona Lisa and mad hatters, rocket man, 20,000 people singing along ..
- Fuck this work environment All I want is to work with folks who support each other, understand each other and work together to try to achieve a common goal. All I can sense right now is people trying to outsmart each other, trying to prove why they are better than others, trying to find faults not with the intention of improv