BurnoutDevs card catalogue
Every card below is part of the fictional game. The burnout meter is game design, not a health assessment.
Problem cards
- Meeting that could've been an email problem
- Standup that became a sitdown problem
- Calendar tetris problem
- Surprise demo request problem
- Retro with no action items problem
- Legacy code with no docs problem
- Merge conflict from hell problem
- It works on my machine problem
- Regex that nobody understands problem
- Dependency hell problem
- Off-by-one error in production problem
- Spaghetti code PR review problem
- Flaky test suite problem
- Deploy on Friday problem
- Hotfix chain reaction problem
- Tech debt interest problem
- Prod DB query without WHERE problem
- Rubber duck won't talk back problem
- Scope creep problem
- Moving goalposts problem
- Micro-manager hover problem
- Jira ticket from hell problem
- Sprint commitment exceeded problem
- Invisible work problem
- Emergency requirement change problem
- SSL certificate expired problem
- DNS propagation problem
- Cloud bill surprise problem
- Pipeline broken for 3 days problem
- Kubernetes yaml hell problem
- Sunday scaries problem
- Comparison with tech influencers problem
- Another year, same stack problem
- Open office noise problem
- "We're like a family" problem
- Ping pong table instead of raises problem
- Forgot to commit before leaving problem
- Mandatory fun event problem
- "Quick sync" at 5:55 PM problem
- Imposter syndrome hits problem
- Vibe coding gone wrong problem
- CEO watched one AI demo problem
- AI rewrote your code problem
- Prompt engineer gets your salary problem
- AI-generated Jira tickets problem
- Junior uses AI, ships faster than you problem
- AI hallucinated the docs problem
- Mandatory AI transformation workshop problem
Coping cards
- Coffee break coping
- Touch grass coping
- Gym session coping
- Actually eat lunch coping
- Meditation break coping
- Set boundaries coping
- Say no coping
- Take PTO coping
- Side project joy coping
- Journal it out coping
- Work from home coping
- Pair programming coping
- Vent to a colleague coping
- Mentor advice coping
- Team meme channel coping
- 1-on-1 with good manager coping
- Dev community meetup coping
- Code review compliment coping
- Stack Overflow coping
- Rubber duck debugging coping
- Git stash to the rescue coping
- Perfect CI/CD run coping
- New mechanical keyboard coping
- Automate the boring stuff coping
- Documentation exists coping
- Automate your standup with AI coping
- Meme break coping
- Passive-aggressive variables coping
- Blame the intern coping
- Rage commit coping
- Passive-aggressive code comments coping
- Deploy and pray coping
- Passive-aggressive Slack status coping
- "AI can't do this" moment coping
- AI pair programmer coping
- Twitter existential meme coping
- Complain in the retro coping
Event cards
- Free pizza event
- Server room AC broke event
- CEO "quick visit" event
- Unexpected day off event
- Coffee machine breaks event
- Open source PR merged event
- Reorg shuffle event
- Surprise hackathon event
- Company all-hands event
- Raise approved! event
- New framework drops event
- Intern saves the day event
- Internet goes down event
- Dependency update breaks everything event
- Good code review feedback event
- AI writes perfect tests event
- AI bubble bursts event
- Your job listed on AI replacement tracker event
Boss cards
- Annual Performance Review boss
- Company Pivot to AI boss
- Layoff Rumors boss
- Complete System Rewrite boss
- The Exit Interview boss
- Full AI Pivot boss