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I've seen this many times. Mainly due to burnout.

Some of the more fast paced "big consultancies" in the UK tend to do this to their staff (I'd name names but I'd get sued) resulting in resentment towards employment. They literally beat every last drop of energy and life out of their staff every day, threaten their jobs constantly with outsourcing and then chuck them on the street when they get wise or ask questions (usually protecting themselves by threatening to sue them if they didn't sign a legal wavier). One outfit I had the misfortunate of contracting some work for informally described their team leads as "whipmasters".

We had a couple of guys on from one of these outfits and they're doing well "in rehab" with us.