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I’d suspect not very many. Filing the TPS report by some made up arbitrary deadline, forcing the victims to work overtime so that a middle manager somewhere can
by ornornor 5y ago
I’d suspect not very many. Filing the TPS report by some made up arbitrary deadline, forcing the victims to work overtime so that a middle manager somewhere can feel important is very unlikely to save a life.
When you think about it, most of the work most people do is utterly inconsequential and doesn’t matter much if at all. And even when it does, it’s really not so critical that the world will end if it’s a week or two late, making most overwork useless.
- nradov 5y agoThat makes no sense. If most work was truly inconsequential then a smart CEO would fire all the inconsequential workers to improve profit margins. Companies lay off redundant workers all the time.
- Noumenon72 5y agoAre you never grateful to your coworkers for all the things they do that make your life easier? And you aren't even there to see the things you do for your customer that make their life easier. If you got hired and it wasn't because someone made a law you had to be hired, you're probably doing something pretty consequential.
- ornornor 5y agoI should have qualified that I meant it in the context of overwork. Almost nothing we do is so crucial that sacrificing people’s lives to overwork so the deadline can be met is morally justifiable. There are very few mission critical, literally life saving exceptions. 99% of it all is not: if the TPS reports are done a week or two late, no one dies and nothing explodes.