McDonald's staffer worked to death

www.abc.net.au...
Is this the future for all of us?It seems to me with obama and pelosi and frank and reed running the country it just might be.

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20 hours per week over time? That is not excessive....not even close!! I thought Japanese people had this horrific work ethic where they worked outrageous amounts anyway?

I have worked an average of 20 - 30 hours per week overtime for about 10 years!! The job I had before that, I saw 80 hours per week routinely!!

At least in the US, we get paid for our overtime, but still, 20 hours by no means "worked her to death"!!

I work more overtime that that a week and i rotate from days to nights every 3 or 4 days. There are hundreds of employees on my same schedule and have been for several years. No deaths here.
Eat healthy and get lots of rest in your off time. A little bit of exercise won’t hurt either.
If you live a high stress life it will take its toll.
Also genetics is a factor. Some people are are destined to explode at a young age.

Overtime? What is that!?

I work 8:30am to 5pm Mon to Fri

Probably a mix between long days and the free food you can get while working at MaccyD's, mix them both together and theyre lethal.

Is the Japanese regular work week 40 hours?

well, when we will get retired at the age of 72-73 we will work to death for sure

Now that I can believe!! 60-70 hours a week, and surviving on McD food will surely kill you quick!!

This is Japan, what the heck to Pelosi and Reid have to do with someone working 20 hours overtime at a McDonalds in Japan?

I've worked two full-time jobs before. 80 hours a week was exhausting but not exhausting to the point of death. It might make you sick of work, but not physically sick. And it wasn't a temporary thing either. I did it for almost 2 years.

I've even worked 20 hour days for 20 days at a time at a single job before taking a solitary day off and then started the whole thing over again when working on big projects. Granted, I'd only do such for a year to 16 months at a time, but still, 120 hour weeks trumps 60 hour weeks no matter how you shake a stick at it.

Even when I wasn't working so much I would juggle a full-time job, part-time school, and tag-team parenting with no sleep longer than 20 minutes at a time for 9 months before I said enough is enough.

I've even worked non-stop for 24 years before ever finally taking a vacation (and I took 13 months off when I finally took one).

Unless you are doing physically demanding hard-labor, you cannot be worked to death unless you already have a pre-existing health condition.

I'm going to chalk this up as sensationalistic reporting. The person either let their health seriously deteriorate, or failed to get plenty of fluids and food, and died of malnutrition and/or dehydration. I doubt they worked themselves to death working a paltry 60 hours a week.

However, as for the Retirement age in the U.S. going up and up and up...that peaves me off to no end. I already know there won't be Social Security for my generation when we are ready to retire, but considering our grandparents and parents were able to retire at 62 and 65 respectively, the thought that the Retirement age for my generation has been upped to 70 and most likely upped again to 75-75 in the not-to-distant future, really rubs me raw. I don't work myself to exhaustion, wasting the prime of my years for nothing! If I can't be sitting on a beach in Cabo drinking Cervezas for the last third of my life, then what's the point?

O no! If 20 hours of overtime per week (or up to 100 hours per month) kills you, my husband is in big trouble. He had 84 hours for the last several weeks. I don't think the Japanese have anything on him.

Can you imagine dying for a McDonald's job? Yikes