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What they go through for us
« on: Nov 30, 2007, 09:22:59 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071130/od_nm/overwork_dc

Court rules employee worked to death

"TOKYO (Reuters) - 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"
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Re: What they go through for us
« Reply #1 on: Dec 01, 2007, 08:07:28 AM »
what a wuss... im scheduled for more than a hundred hours of ot this month lol
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Re: What they go through for us
« Reply #2 on: Dec 01, 2007, 08:33:37 AM »
guys on offshore oil rigs rack up an average of 80 hours of overtime in 2 weeks.
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