Comment on 207 Hours Overtime: Japanese Man in Kobe Worked to Death

• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I hope you’re in a less shitty environment now, whatever field that may be in

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why did you work that much?

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  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Good stuff. I worked crazy like that once before too, during the Kaseya ransomware breach. Was the specialist rebuilding functioning AD and recovery efforts in over 50 companies that month. It was a wild time, everything was on fire, so it was constant triage and scary recoveries (some lost absolutely everything - test your backups folks)

      Would 100% do it again but like you mentioned you knew it was very temporary. Doing that long term is insanity

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• Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  What job was that, if I may ask?

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