Local news is saying working 60 to 80 hours a week

[RB TexLa]

Can cause health problems and illness! Guess they want businesses to run themselves.

I'm sure it's on their website, google nbc 5 Dallas


What a joke

[Chipper Chat]

1. What do they suggest doing?

Cutting back to one 40-hr-a-week job and stop buying gas, or drop your second job and just pray alot?

[evlbstrd]

2. Do you think it's not true?

I don't get the joke.

[RB TexLa]

3. It's never been true for me

If you are self employed or run a business 70 or so hours is a normal week. I hardly ever get sick.

[evlbstrd]

4. Been there.

It will get you. Count on it.

[EC]

6. I did it for close to 30 years,

I always wondered if that was all there was to life? Now I couldn't do it again ever, I am not working just to survive, I am working to live...

[Porcupine]

8. To get sick you would have to spend time near other humans

like your spouse or your kids if you had any.

[RB TexLa]

10. I don't understand your post

I'm around people all the time.

[NMMNG]

5. I could have told them that

Fatigue, stress and myriad health problems. I suppose if jobs would pay a living wage there would be no need for overtime and/or second jobs, but then again we're under Dumbya now so we'd better get used to it.

[DanCa]

7. No really? Has anyone heard of fatigue? :

God sometimes I wonder if Bush voters get what they deserve.

[bigjohn16]

9. My hope is one day we can all work 60 to 80 hour weeks...

... for minimum wage. Isn't life on this planet grand.

[niyad]

11. no S*** sherlock, this comes as news to anyone? there is something

seriously wrong with a culture that demands so much time at work, especially one that is constantly pratting about "family values"-- which, reasonably, should include time with said family.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Owning your own business gives you perks that

the ordinary worker doesn't have. If you feel like taking off a couple hours in the afternoon for a nap, you can. You can just do your work at a different time. The ordinary worker cannot.
You truly can't count that in this context.

[Raydawg1234]

13. why is that a joke?