A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan’s continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Americans are like, shit what a rookie, I work 250 hours. This makes me a winner!

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        I did 135 hour week once as a journalism intern. got fired because I didn’t do 140 (would walk to hotel, sleep 4 hours, wake up, walk back to field office - “wow,” you think, “what war was he covering?” and the answer is the war of an arts festival in northern england).

        didn’t go back to journalism after that.

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            oh absolutely it was illegal, and I did it with full knowledge of it, and voluntarily, for a stipend instead of pay.

            just no point in being litigious when I’m just as happy to have a good story out of it.

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            Good stuff. I worked crazy like that once before too, during the Kaseya ransomware breach. Was the specialist rebuilding functioning AD and recovery efforts in over 50 companies that month. It was a wild time, everything was on fire, so it was constant triage and scary recoveries (some lost absolutely everything - test your backups folks)

            Would 100% do it again but like you mentioned you knew it was very temporary. Doing that long term is insanity

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      I remember more than once someone on Reddit bragging about how they worked 90 hours a week. I’m like, dude, I wish I worked 10 hours a week.

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      I’ve done it once when I worked for a consulting company, it was hell. The paycheck at the end of it almost made up for it though.