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When Stuart Nomimizu relocated from Birmingham, England, to Tokyo his friends and family in the UK started to worry. Not only did they rarely hear from him, but he seemed to always be at the office from early morning until very late at night. His working hours seemed so extreme, that they didn't always believe he was working as hard as he said.
To convince them, he documented one week of his life as a so-called "salaryman" in Tokyo's financial-services industry and posted it online so they could understand his new lifestyle.
The resulting video went viral on YouTube, racking up more than one million views. It depicts a hectic week in 2015 during the financial sector's busy season — from January to March — when Nomimizu clocked in 78 working hours and 35 sleeping hours between Monday and Saturday (before working another six hours that Sunday, which you don't see in the video).
[...] It got to the point where Nomimizu was putting in so many 80-hour work weeks that he fainted in his apartment one night and came-to right next to a TV stand, which he'd narrowly missed. When the rush period was finally over, he says the entire office got "horrendously sick."
While Nomimizu's excessive workload was somewhat temporary, he says "there are people working for companies in Tokyo that do that sort of workload and have that life day-in, day-out all year long." Indeed, marathon workdays are so entrenched in the culture that there's even a Japanese word, karoshi, that quite literally means "overwork death."
Source: If you want to earn more, work less
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @07:34PM
One week when some people were on vacation, and others were fired, I clocked over 200 hours in one week. Figure that one out.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday January 16 2017, @07:55PM
It must have been a long week. There are only 168 hours in a normal week.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday January 16 2017, @07:58PM
Uh, duh. You just double or triple bill all your clients, then claim that instead of active and intentional fraud, hard work got you rich.
This is America. It works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @08:03PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @09:37AM
Not if you're on a plane flying around the globe. You can fit in a full extra day into one of your days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @08:01PM
Easy. You're a lawyer.
(There are 168 hours in a calendar week.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @09:22PM
So far all answers above are wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @09:39PM
1. Time travel?
2. You got marooned on Mars?
3. The punch clock was either in a deep gravity well or traveling close to the speed of light (relatively speaking)?
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday January 16 2017, @10:49PM
Instead of breaking out overtime separately, they fudge the hours:
200hours - 40 hours =160 hours
160 hours / 1.5 = 107 hours
Total: 147 hours
Leaving about 3 hours/night for sleep.
The numbers make more sense if you get paid double/triple pay for over-time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @11:29PM
if one crosses time-zones, weeks can easily be longer than 168.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday January 16 2017, @11:26PM
You're a craftsperson who bills for the hour, and bills every started hour like a full hour?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:08AM
Close!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:57AM
You have a couple of people doing your job for you.
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:37AM
Simple, you did work that benefits two or three clients at a time, or you did two employees' worth of work, and billed accordingly. One hour spent solving a problem that two clients benefit from, or taking one hour to complete a job that would have taken two of the absent employees == two billable hours.
(Score: 2) by Anne Nonymous on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:11AM
> Figure that one out.
You have five really lazy doppelgangers.