• (nodebb)

    I want you to know that dropping dead from work is all too real and can happen to anyone.

    I absolutely believe that, but the submitter's text as written doesn't actually indicate that the manager, Fred, died from work. It might just as easily be mega-violent food poisoning; a random cancer picked up because of, say, no particular reason that anybody could find; or even an early heart attack that Fred got because it runs in his family.

  • (nodebb)

    My job has already had two people (one a VP) die from heart attacks. I actually quit for 13 months because a manager put me on an insane death march project, and I said I was not going to be the third to die from work-related stress. I later returned after that manager left, and I have been enjoying it again ever since.

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  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi

    The thing to remember about a death march is that it's both about the journey and the destination.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Most likely cardiac. It happened to somebody my significant other once worked for (long after she left). He was found by a couple of walkers having had a cardiac arrest whilst out running. See also Douglas Adams.

    Now she nags me about my not quite as healthy as it could be diet, which is a bit annoying but much better than feeding me bacon sandwiches while checking the value of my life insurance.

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