Overworked to Death! - Neatorama

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

Artist Florentijn Hofman has done similar things in the past, including painting roads yellow
http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/index.php?page=projects&id=12

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oops posted int he wrong article.

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My longest record is 82.5 hours in a week. And 31 days nonstop with no days off. Crazy.

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The popular Japanese term for this is "Karoshi".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

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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...

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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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