Places Incredibly Deadly Viper

What you are reading in mind that title? Where is it? At the hospital? Or on the street, where many accidents occur?

Not everywhere. That place is in Your Workplace! Not believe? The following is an excerpt from a book titled "In Praise of Slow" by Carl Honore.

Can be found in the introduction, page xxiv.

.

.. In Japan, the local residents familiar with the term "karoshi"
which means "to die because of work". One of the most famous victims of karoshi is Kamei Shuji, a trader with a high flying hours who routinely work ninety hours per week
(note: 15 hours per day for 6 days, or 18 hours a day for 5 days) for weeks.

When the Japanese stock market boom in the late 1980s. Company where he worked boasting of his superhuman stamina in a variety of newsletters and booklets training, turning it into a gold standard which is used as a benchmark for exemplary by all employees.

Outside rare protocol, Shuji asked to train senior colleagues in the art of sales, which of course increase the burden on the shoulders of the man. When the Japanese stock market experienced in 1989 mark, Shuji work even longer to catch up. In 1990, he died suddenly of a heart attack. He was 26 years old.

That happened in the early 1990s. In 2001, the Japanese government reported 143 victims of karoshi. Karoshi recent case that raised the death of a Toyota quality control manager who died at the age of 30 years. A week before he died he had told his wife saying, "One thing that makes me happy is when I can sleep.