110 hours per week - if working every single day of the week - means that you are working about 16 hours per day, with 8 hours of rest in between. It sounds like this guy inverted a normal persons work/life schedule.
Banker At US Firm Hospitalised With Pancreatic Failure After 110-Hour Workweek
Submitted 1 day ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Makhno@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like a choice. Fuckem, find a new job
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It probably doesn’t feel like a choice, the system we live can do a number on your brainhole.
rollmagma@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Poor banker. I can’t hold my tears.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Do you think this is a millionaire? Or an employee that has to sell X boat insurances until the end of the month to reach quota or risk getting fired?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Even in death they make me feel poor by choosing to do this voluntarily.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I mean, you’re directly working for the capitalist class, did you expect them to give a shit if you die? Cry me a fucking river.
LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 1 day ago
More like after working 100 hours and drinking a ton of booze or eating tons of fast food
Magister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
WTF is this? people working 80-110 hours? 80h being the norm? I know in some poor/3rd world countries this is happening unfortunately, but in USA? WTF?
ReputedlyDeplorable@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I used to be an automotive controls engineer. 100hr work weeks were not unusual onsite, the norm was 80hrs. And you can end up onsite for anywhere from 2-10 months depending on the job. The 100hr weeks were usually only for a few weeks when production starts up again. But it’s the whole culture, there is a lot of pressure from the customer to get production back up. And most of the industry veterans I worked with loved bragging about the 36hr days they had put in the past to “get the job done”. It’s like a cult, they get into the mindset of “well I did it so everyone else has to too”.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah like I’m sure the quality of the work didn’t suffer when people were literally delirious from sleep deprivation
ReputedlyDeplorable@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sometimes it didn’t even make sense. I had a project Engineer (job lead) stay overnight with the night shift mechanics who were fixing a weld on our VDL (elevator for car bodies). He said that it was so he could make sure they lined it up correctly and test it. He could have done that when we came in the morning, there was a day shift mechanical crew if we had any issues.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like how is that physically done? I couldn’t physically do it.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
My first job out of college was about 130hr/week. It didn’t start that way but I was young, inspired by the project, and didn’t know how to say no. The team was small and our lead was batshit so more work kept adding up. I was basically working all waking hours 7 days a week and the sporadic times I did get an hour or two to sleep I was on call. I started having 20 hour work days in the last couple weeks. I was there a total of about two years (the first year was a lot but more like 60hr weeks so doable), my burnout lasted for two years, the resulting alcohol abuse took more like 6 years to kick. Barely even got paid. I’ve learned a lot since then
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can barely manage 40 hours.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day ago
The better paid a job is the more likely it is to demand that sort of “commitment”. And people really like money. They say to themselves “20 years of this, then I’ll travel the world”. Looks like it didn’t work out for this guy.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is common in investment banking.