Thread: Worked to Death

Young Worker Clocked 159 Hours of Overtime in a Month. Then She Died.


TOKYO — Miwa Sado, a young journalist for Japan’s state-run broadcaster, spent the summer of 2013 frantically covering two local elections in Tokyo.

Over the course of a month, she clocked 159 hours of overtime. She rarely took weekends off. She worked until midnight nearly every night.

On her birthday, June 26, she emailed her parents, who thought she sounded weak.

Not quite a month later, just days after the second election, she died of congestive heart failure. She was 31.

The case — the latest high-profile example of karoshi, or “death from overwork” — came to light only after the broadcaster, NHK, announced it this week.

Karoshi became widely recognized as a phenomenon in the late 1980s, as stories of blue-collar employees keeling over at work appeared to expose a sinister side to Japan’s postwar economic miracle. Over the years, cases of karoshi have been reported among white-collar executives, automotive engineers and immigrant trainees.

In a 2016 government report on karoshi, nearly a quarter of companies surveyed said that some employees were working more than 80 hours of overtime a month. Months later, the president of the advertising agency Dentsu resigned after an outcry over the 2015 death of an employee, Matsuri Takahashi, 24, who jumped from the roof of an employee dormitory.

Like Ms. Takahashi, Ms. Sado was a young woman making her way in a blue-chip organization. Her employer is considered one of the most prestigious companies in Japan, a country where exhaustion is often seen as a sign of diligence.

A 2014 government investigation found that Ms. Sado’s death was a direct result of her work life.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/w...-overwork.html

Retarded story is retarded.

84 hours a week is 7 x 12 hour days which is quite normal for a 6 week on 2 week off rotation - 336 hours per 28 days

how may hours did she work in 28 days ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

84 hours a week is 7 x 12 hour days which is quite normal for a 6 week on 2 week off rotation - 336 hours per 28 days

how may hours did she work in 28 days ?

Was going to post the same thing.

Assuming 40 hours as standard non overtime hours I get 176 overtime hours a month.

And I'm on my 86th consecutive day.

And the last 2 weeks has been 15 hrs/day so even more.

Originally Posted by Slick

Assuming 40 hours as standard non overtime hours I get 176 overtime hours a month.

And I'm on my 86th consecutive day.

And the last 2 weeks has been 15 hrs/day so even more.

Yet, you still find the time to post on this forum. The clocked hours you have must allow you some fuck-around time to be able to squeeze in some banter on Teakdoor.

Originally Posted by happynz

The clocked hours you have must allow you some fuck-around time to be able to squeeze in some banter on Teakdoor.

That, and the fact that I have mobile phone/data signal where im at.

I would assume the "overworked" person in the OP had much of the same, and in a better environment as well.

yep 480hrs a month for six month then off to thailand for six months, total not OT did that for most of my working life. would do the same if i was of working age.

Originally Posted by Slick

I'm on my 86th consecutive day.

luckily you're not allowed your gun collection on that rig

Originally Posted by Dillinger

luckily you're not allowed your gun collection on that rig

Having my gun collection on here would probably be safer than if they allowed alcohol.

Now that ​would be a disaster

Might as well go for the trifecta. Booze, guns and whatever those engine guys are huffing under the galley.