Hard Work Opens the Psychiatrist’s Door

Description

A two-panel black-and-white stick-figure cartoon begins with a bespectacled, mustached manager pointing upward and saying, “Work hard and the right door will open.” Beside him, a smiling worker in a headband types at a laptop behind a desk surrounded by three tall stacks of paperwork. The lower panel is labeled “The door:” and shows the same tie-wearing worker crying while stepping through an open doorway next to a sign reading “Psychiatrist.” The literalized motivational cliché turns relentless office productivity into burnout, highlighting the mental-health cost of treating sustained overwork as a career strategy.