[onimishra]

It really depends on where you’re based and what level of trust you have in the manager. In some countries a company will go quite far to keep their employees - it’s expensive to both hire and then train new ones. In others, the manager gets measured just as much and he needs his bonus (or simply just his salary) as much as you do.

Either way, there isn’t much you can do if the burnout is real, other than being honest. Explain why you’re feeling burned out, perhaps even come up with suggestions to how it potentially could be mitigated. A good manager will try to accommodate you in some way. If they’ve been with the company for a long time, they might even have experience with dealing with burned out staff or have the option to shuffle some tasks around to give a tiny bit of variety. If he can’t and just lets you go, then the deadline just moved - if you were burning out, it would eventually have come to this anyway. Hard to hear, harder to experience but nothing to do but look for something new with more meat on it :)