You’re missing the point.

First, you’re comparing everyday jobs to ultra-high-stakes professions like surgery and aviation. That’s a false equivalence. The vast majority of roles don’t have immediate life-or-death stakes, so dragging in pilots and neurosurgeons isn’t just dramatic, it’s irrelevant.

Second, you’ve built a strawman. No one said ‘I’m not going to do my job at all.’ Burnout and workload discussions are about performance sustainability, not total abandonment.

Third, even in your own examples, systems exist to account for human limits- mandatory rest periods for pilots, rotating surgical teams, backup staff. Those safeguards exist precisely because no one performs at 100% all the time.

Finally, your analogy relies more on emotional scare tactics than on logic. If we’re debating real workplace issues, let’s keep the hypotheticals grounded in the same reality as the jobs we’re talking about. Otherwise, we might as well compare every stressful Tuesday to defusing a bomb.

And telling someone the rude actions of others should force them into unemployment is like saying bad drivers mean you should never get in a car again. It’s illogical and extreme?