overworked

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If hospitals were run like startups, junior medical staff would be overworked, underpaid, and burnt out.

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Quick take

Subjected to too much work.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Subjected to too much work.

adjective

(figurative, of a word, phrase, etc.) Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for overworked.

adjective

Subjected to too much work.

adjective

(figurative, of a word, phrase, etc.) Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.

Example sentences

If hospitals were run like startups, junior medical staff would be overworked, underpaid, and burnt out.

Just to take an example, it is often shocking how ill-paid and overworked adjunct faculty are.

This is different from an overworked agent asking a colleague to take over clients, both are still agents of the brokerage.

It's not that they aren't being transparent - they've always been 100% honest with me and beyond fair - they're just overworked.

Instead you have overworked, underpaid public defenders who may many times only meet their clients just before opening statements, even on more complex trials.

Every time we hear about CPS they're overworked and have to deal with horrors I don't even want to imagine.

I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else.

Not to mention the rest of the overworked, under-vacationed life that's generally required by jobs here even if you manage to score a decent one.

I do wonder if most of their value comes not from their brains but from their pliability and capacity to be overworked?

They were overworked and there was on-call which came with quite a bit of stress since my friend spent quite a few sleepless nights on calls.

If they seem overworked and depressed, I'm going to stay away.

Also, most IT people in non-profits are overworked just doing basic network admin etc - and are not the right people or in the right position to do development.

Quote examples

I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else." This is pretty characteristic of startups: (work/workers > 1).

I manage a lot of things and am overworked with little time for anything else." You may think this, but the company will find someone to replace you.

One of the more notable ones was the switch from an "intelligent" request routing mechanism (Heroku's routing mesh would route requests to dynos based on their load) to a random load-balancing scheme (blind, with no regard for existing dyno load), causing requests to frequently be routed to overworked dynos while leaving open ones idling and twiddling their virtual thumbs.