Overworked to Death!

By Alex in Crime & Law on Dec 11, 2007 at 11:51 pm

Apparently, it is possible to work oneself to death. Case in point: a man who died after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month.

A Toyota Motor Corp employee died of overwork after logging more than 106 hours of overtime in a month, a judge ruled Friday, reversing a ministry’s earlier decision not to pay compensation to his widow.

That works out to be just 5 hours OT for every working day. Tell this to your boss next time you feel overworked! Link

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Jon
Dec 11th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Artist Florentijn Hofman has done similar things in the past, including painting roads yellow
http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/index.php?page=projects&id=12
Jon
Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am
oops posted int he wrong article.
Ant
Dec 12th, 2007 at 3:39 am
My longest record is 82.5 hours in a week. And 31 days nonstop with no days off. Crazy.
anon
Dec 12th, 2007 at 9:06 am
The popular Japanese term for this is “Karoshi”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
anonymous
Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
join the entertainment business — weeks and weeks of all-nighters are the norm for the behind-the-scenes crowd (like f/x crews). no autopsy is cited, so one wonders what the cause of death was…
Angela
Dec 12th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
when i ran a staffing agency for nurses, i had several nurses who worked about 16 hours a day 7 days a week. and they worked in a nursing home, not easy work at all! so thats about 72 hours of over time in one week alone.

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