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In reply to the discussion: Why do we have to "Work so Hard" to make a living? [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)and who had spent several years working for a major bank in Tokyo. She was changing careers due to major burnout.
I had once stayed in a hotel near a branch of her bank, which had floor-to-ceiling windows, and I noted that I had seen people at work there at 10PM.
She said that was the reason why she had quit, the long hours and the feeling that the long hours were actually unnecessary. Management set impossibly short deadlines that could be met only with unpaid overtime from the salaried workers, even though most of the "emergencies" were reports that had to be filed every year. So they'd give them a week to do this report, even though they had to have had all the documents required for it three weeks before that.
She felt that this was management's way of lording it over the employees.