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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.
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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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Are you me?
I was the CTO of a medium-size mannufacturing company that had my boss (and general everything-in-their-head manager) died from a heart attack. I cleaned my desk the same day convinced that that was the end. But it wasn't: the following month one relative assumed control of the company, with the best intention but little know-how. A couple years later we felt that the worst was over, but one friday afternoon we were in end-of-week planning meetings and come monday morning we arrived to work to find a notice telling us that the company had closed and that we already had our (generous) severance packages in our accounts.
Bottom line: two years and a 2150% inflation (not a typo) later I have run out of that severance package and accumulated a collection of "excellent resumé, but we are looking for someone younger" job application rejections.
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The thing to remember about a death march is that it's both about the journey and the destination.
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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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after United Air Lines turned their pension into a tontine there was an ambulance each week.
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I just want to complain about the article's graphic. That clock that has two 9s and no 11.
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I just want to complain about the article's graphic. That clock that has two 9s and no 11.
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My neighbour's son is probably going to live forever then.
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Maybe it's upside-down
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We need unions so bad.
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We sometimes talk about a team's "bus factor" as in: if any given person on the team got hit by a bus and stopped coming to work, how bad of shape would we be? Mainly as a measure of siloing of project expertise and what not. Someone else decided that that was a little morbid and wanted to promote a more optimistic outlook. So instead opted to call it the "lottery bus", as in instead of being hit by a bus and dying, they won the lottery and immediately retired.
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Brain aneurysm is also quite possible. Not a thing we can do about them to reduce the risk either; the surgery required to fix the blood vessels before they burst is more likely to kill you than the aneurysm is to happen, and the process of detecting them is also highly invasive (high-intensity X-rays aren't nice).
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If this was the USA it could also be "car-diac", as in killed in a traffic accident. Those are no-notice too.