Posted on 08/20/2013 5:28:47 PM PDT by Dallas59
A 21-year-old intern who worked grueling hours at Bank of America's London office died just a week before his internship was to conclude.
Moritz Erhardt, who studied at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany, reportedly had worked until 6 a.m. for three days straight and was found dead in his flat.
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If that’s all it takes to kill someone, I’m dead many times over.
Prayers.
I can tell you from First Had Experience "Bankers Hours" Means an Hour Before your scheduled time and about 2 Hours After.
Well, at least he died doing something that he loved . . . oops, hold that thought.
I do not beleive that this person died as a result of work at BofA.
I have dealt with these people and I would guess based on their response time two-three hours a day max.
I worked in the ER of a major hospital for years.I had several jobs titles which,particularly when I first attained them,required grueling hours,grueling shifts.Some were 16 hour shifts,some night,many holidays.At that tender age a work week that involved three straight days of arrival at 6AM and departure at 11PM would be an easy week.
He found quiet corners and took lots of naps, on the clock of course.
The first time he did that was also the last time.
He was medically inadequate to begin with. This can happen, and is not the fault of the company.
anyone thing that suffering an epileptic seizure in the shower might have been a factor?
Korean video game players die playing long times at a time sometimes.
Often worked long shifts offshore (oil) but found that a 15 minute nap every 4-5 hours would keep me going. In fact, I think my body took that nap whether I wanted it to or not. Recall one time I worked 96 out of 105 hours. This was with minimal caffeine and no drugs. If this poor BoA fellow was in reasonable health, I suspect he was trying to boost his performance with some chemical (meth) assistance.
Me too..........
Nawwwwwwww...........totally normal!!
In before BofA boycott!
Who cares? As long as he’s dead and we can thump our chests it’s all good.
I’ve done that working on a computer problem. friday thru monday morning. nu-car carriers in Bryn Mawr, pa around 1985 GM was going to buy them out but insisted GM owed them $1M my job was to find it. I did. didn’t kill me no sleep.
Wimp!
when I was in college I worked midnight shift from 10PM to 6:30AM and then went to school from 7:30 AM til 7PM
I believe the Nazis did experiments to see if people could "overcome" the need to sleep - that is, as if sleep were an addiction and tiredness was simply a withdrawal symptom. The subjects died, predictably.
>>I’ve done that working on a computer problem. friday thru monday morning<<
I was working on a problem and swore I would not go home until it was fixed. I found a plastic souvenir batting helmet, taped “PROGRAM UNDER CONSTRUCTION” and did just that. This was at a college so I was able to go and use the showers every 1.5 days or so. I am not “extending” when I say it was Monday through Thursday, around noon.
I solved the problem, got respect that stays with me now some 30 years later, went home, heated a Stouffer’s Lasagna in the oven (no microwaves back then), downed a Dortmunder Union and slept for 48 hours.
Ah to be in my late 20s again...
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