Jonathan Malesic

Carter lost the election in 1980, and one of Ronald Reagan's first acts as president in his first year was to break a strike of air traffic controllers.

One of their first listed grievances was the problem of consistent burnout on the job.

Reagan's response to this was to fire the air traffic controllers.

They're terminated.

And, you know, that was, of course, a huge blow to organized labor across the country.

Burnout was kind of at the core of that.

Right.

It's a BuzzFeed News article by Anne Helen Peterson about millennial burnout.

The article did go extremely viral.

It named this kind of experience that had somewhat been forgotten in the intervening decades.

Not necessarily not felt,

But for whatever reason, particularly these millennial workers, a generation that had high ideals for work that was told that it could accomplish great things, and now that they kind of hit their 30s, we're encountering kind of like the harsh reality often of American working life.