Most people don’t have jobs that come with oppressive slumps, at least not slumps that are public and subject to scrutiny. Certainly not slumps like major-league hitters go through.
Bob down at the bottle-opener factory goes the equivalent of 2-for-30 from the plate and no one outside of his supervisor cares. Betty in HR makes a mistake on someone’s overtime claim and fixes if with a few keystrokes. No harm, no foul language from social-media critics. I’ll beat you to the punch: Rick from the sports department has been in a four-decade slump, nobody is in the forest to hear the sound of his fall anyway and somehow he has remained gainfully employed.