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- If you're putting in more than 55 hours a week at work, the chances are good that you're working toward having a stroke, researchers say. A study involving more than 600,000 people found that people who work that many hours have a 33% higher stroke risk and a 13% higher risk of coronary heart disease than people working 35 to 40 hours a week, the Guardian reports.
The researchers, whose study is published in the Lancet, say that the risk goes up with every hour worked on top of 40 a week, with those working up to 48 hours increasing the risk by 10% and those working up to 54 hours by 27%.
On the other hand, you might be improving the overall health of the pension by not collecting any money.
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posted by SCC at 1:01 AM
29 Comments:
"Ol' Bronx was at the last CompStat. Are you sure you didn't make a typo about HAVING a stroke working a 55 hour work week. I'm sure it said, 'BEING a stroke'. Please correct your error."
Ok, Has anyone posted it yet?
Hey Fred, working hard?
Working hard? More like hardly working!
"...you might be improving the overall health of the pension by not collecting any money." -- SCC
Ezekiel Emanuel suddenly authored a paper in 2014 giving his life-cutoff date as 75. There was another one long before that laying out a cutoff for medical care at age 60. Tired now, but will dig the first one out ASAP. If it has been memory-holed on the Web, I may have the paper stored on my computer.
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..."
-- Omar Khayyam
OT --
Uh -- what has happened to U. of I. "public-health" Dr. Gary Slutkin, founder of the millions-swirling-around-the-drain Cease Fire? His Wikipedia listing sure evaporated fast...
We'll be looking there too.
...and don't forget Matt Peskin, who has made a fortune off the "National Night Out Against Crime" activities...
Computer-assisted Elephant's Memory here...
The military routinely works 12+ hour days, up to 7 days a week and you don't see them having strokes and heart attacks. Working long hours keeps people out of trouble. Busy hands are happy hands and idle hands will do the devils work.
How many hours do you put in if you also work VRI?
Oh see.
This could be the solution to the pension problem. Work that O/T baby! Be the richest man in the graveyard.
Terrific. So l can only assume that the non-working, gibs me dat' segment of society will just live forever?
Leading causes of death in Chicago : 1) Heart Disease 2)Cancer 3)PO SEISER 4)Strokes
SIESER RUNS IT!
So the 10.5 hour day system is good for the employer. Less pension money to be paid out in the end.
Damn i actually work about 15 hours am i at risk?
This is why I spend most of my time at Beatrice' s.
How long before the people who want others to lose their jobs over "higher minimum wage" take to using this "study" to claim that since people are bringing home less money or working multiple jobs to bring in the same as when they only had one job, that their destruction of small and medium sized business was all about "healthcare".
Another reason to stop working VRI !!! Force the city to hire more officers / protect your health !!!
True, how many coppers do we know that died early? I could name quite a few but won't on the public blog! But that being said may they all "Rest In Peace" May God take care of their souls and their families on earth! If you cannot make it on 40 hours your spending to much! Get a used car, shop for cheaper insurance, use coupons, shop at thrift stores, buy only what is on sale, make your lunch at home (More healthy than junk you buy), work out, don't smoke-drink-gamble at all, get a physical, watch your blood pressure I know there is more!
On another note if you observe coppers that are "fakers" getting on disability rolls and sucking the pension dry, you can report this and the pension board will go after them civilly and criminally after all they are basically stealing "your money!"
Well, the gents in the FLOP office have nothing to worry about then. Each one of em work a 4 day week and dont return my calls. Yes, i keep track.
Remember the inside positions are exempt from the 10.5 hour days. Guess seniority will come into play for who works the desk. Guess all those career (under 5 years) house mouses gonna loose their spot.
All kidding aside those are sobering facts.... especially for the many officers who are addicted to the VRI money.
Yes the money's nice but at what cost to your health? Money can't buy health.
don't smoke-drink-gamble at all, get a physical, watch your blood pressure I know there is more!
So no fun? You sound like a quaker
The city had a perfect plan years ago. Change shifts every 28 days and locate a bar either adjacent or kiddy-corner to the station. That way after working the midnights instead of driving home, you could safely leave work and join your fellow officers for a few drinks till 3-4 pm.
Later, retired 640
We all have done the multiple hours, multiple jobs, "all for our family" but yet there is a limit on how much the body can take! How many coppers do you know who due to stresses of not only this job but working constantly never got to enjoy the money? Not worth it!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"...you might be improving the overall health of the pension by not collecting any money." -- SCC
Ezekiel Emanuel suddenly authored a paper in 2014 giving his life-cutoff date as 75. There was another one long before that laying out a cutoff for medical care at age 60. Tired now, but will dig the first one out ASAP. If it has been memory-holed on the Web, I may have the paper stored on my computer.
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..."
-- Omar Khayyam
8/22/2015 01:54:00 AM
A question if we may...
Aren't Doctor Ezekiel's parents still alive?
If so, we challenge the good Doctor et famille to adhere to
his philosophy and strip them of their clothing and leave them
on a bed of branches in the woods...
You know...
Let the shit-ass lead by example since this is the shit
he advocates for the rest of everybody else who aren't THEM.
Funny...
Aren't the Emanuel Boys heavily invested in some healthcare
"management" (read as healthcare rationing) outfit?
Really...
What the fuck kind of toxic, hateful, brain-rotting shit did these lunatics conversate about
at the dinner table when they were growing up?
Everything on their formative years is under judicial seal or white-washed.
Rahm has a Master's from Northwestern but no one can
find hide nor hair of a thesis paper to glean insight into how
he thinks...
You know... Like we and many others had to submit for
defense and adversarial review?
Some m/fers are just some kind of special.
And it ain't us...
On another note if you observe coppers that are "fakers" getting on disability rolls and sucking the pension dry, you can report this and the pension board will go after them civilly and criminally after all they are basically stealing "your money!"
There was one from 024 a number of years ago who "hurt" his shoulder and turned that into a 75% disability pension. He's managed to fool them so far. About the only good that will come out of this one is that once he reaches 63, he get's put on a regular pension which for him will be a pay cut since he only had 5 years on the job when he got disability.
Remember the inside positions are exempt from the 10.5 hour days. Guess seniority will come into play for who works the desk. Guess all those career (under 5 years) house mouses gonna loose their spot.
Not unless they managed to get a desk bid spot. Then they are golden.
My VRI is fishing on my days off and gardening.
My partner Danny in 010 says Money never sleeps!$!
The city is going to win big time over the long run with the 10.5 hour tour because they are going to save millions in pension payouts to coppers who drop like flies before they retire or shortly afterwards. Mark my words. Advice; stay in tip top shape and clean up ur diet
Terrific. So l can only assume that the non-working, gibs me dat' segment of society will just live forever?
8/22/2015 06:13:00 AM
Probably so, no stress involved in being a freeloading, parasitic Welfare Leech.
We all have done the multiple hours, multiple jobs, "all for our family" but yet there is a limit on how much the body can take! How many coppers do you know who due to stresses of not only this job but working constantly never got to enjoy the money? Not worth it!
You Idiots do realize that you are also supplementing all the deadbeat Welfare Recipients by working more don't you? Extra Taxation equals extra revenue to throw to the Zombies to keep buying their votes. Do you ever complain to your Elected Officials about excessive Taxation ? No. Why ? Because you are a stupid obamanite communist Sheeple.
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