A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan’s continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
A medical resident worked 207 hours of overtime in a month. His case highlights Japan’s continuing problem with karoshi - death by overwork.
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.
That sounds like it should violate all kinds of labor laws. Even if you slept the second you were off the clock and started working the second you woke up, it would only give you 4 hours of sleep, working 7 days per week… no time to even shower. You were right for quitting that nonsense.
Mine was all voluntary, so if I didn’t show up for a day, no one was going to yell at me or anything. If someone said I had to do it, I probably would have quit, lol. Throughout the time I did it, a lot of others would come in and do a day or two, then go back to their old normal work schedule with no repercussions.
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.
I hope you’re in a less shitty environment now, whatever field that may be in