Electric Vehicle Forums - Shame on you, Toyota!

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Originally Posted by Brawn (Post 180467)

And truck drivers. I drive up to 70 hours per week. Plus I'm setting in the truck or getting loaded another 20 to 30 hours per week. I usually work 7 days a week. Sometimes from 5 am till midnight. There is no one to blame for my health but myself. Lots of people work over 80 hours per week. Some people just like the extra income some need the extra income just to pay the bills. For whatever reason he was overworked I'm sure they didn't have a gun to his head.

The issue of compulsion is a complex one - any number of us have gotten ourselves into a set of lifestyle choices that demand a certain income level. Additional dimensions like ego and self-image come into play, and can be more compelling than any external physical threat. Like lobsters in a pot whose temperature is being raised slowly, it's often hard to tell when you start being cooked. Often, it does end up having a major health crisis to get us to re-examine life's priorities and the consequences of behaviors. The fortunate ones survive the crisis and learn from it to remove themselves from the toxic work environments. The rest end up dead.:cry:

As to truckers working crazy hours - a trucker was recently convicted of culpable manslaughter for killing 7 kids when he fell asleep at the wheel and creamed a car stopped for a school bus. You can talk all you want about personal responsibility (and he'll have 7 years in prison to think about it), but his dispatcher and manager should be in the cell next door for their part in creating the environment and a lack of supervision that led to his killing those kids.

The sad part is that "leaders" often don't have a clue as to how toxic the work environment they're creating is. There is a often a very fine line between 'challenging your team to excellence' and killing them with stress. And all too often in large corporations, the body count piles up, in obvious and not-so-obvious ways. And with no repercussions to those truly responsible.