A Japanese labor bureau ruled recently that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours. This is one in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours has long been the norm for some employees.
The Top 17 Signs You're Working Too Hard
17. Your job in 2011: opening Starbucks stores.
16. Your job in 2012: closing Starbucks stores.
15. Last week alone, you put two robots out of work.
14. Everyone comments on the artistic nature of your Leaning Tower of Empty Cup Noodles.
13. You keep dozing off at your job at the meth lab.
12. You desperately want to spend more time with your kids, so you hire them as interns.
11. Your "vacation" this summer? Telecommuting from home -- but you wore shorts!
10. You get a bad case of tennis elbow -- because of your job as a fluffer.
9. Your boss even refuses to give you time off to attend your own funeral.
8. Prescriptions filled today: 300
7. Prescriptions filled incorrectly out of spite: 78
6. You drop the kids off at daycare on the way in, and pick them up from junior high on the way home.
5. Satan suggests you take a water break.
4. Three people buried to death since your hair started falling out.
3. You've somehow managed to convince yourself the evening traffic *finally* eases up around 1:00 a.m.
2. Your unborn child is diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome.
and the Number 1 Sign You're Working Too Hard...
Your husband's partner in couples therapy is inflatable.
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