Thursday, August 22, 2013

Overworked and Underpaid

Story of an intern working for Merrill Lynch dying after working 72 hours straight.
Reminds me of while working for IBM, we worked mandatory 60-80 hour weeks for almost 2 years as an organization. Our bonus was being served dinner on-site (tins of food). Eventually someone died of a heart attack and management pulled back on the mandatory overtime. The project was cancelled shortly thereafter.
Has been talk of a 4-day work week since I was young. Has never happened and never will as long as the dollar is our god.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0822/Bank-of-America-intern-a-culture-of-overwork-spans-many-countries


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