Working 12 hours a day six days a week can permanently destroy the desire to wake up every morning and go to work. This is a situation I found myself in for two long years. At a previous company, managers were required to work 72 hours a week, completely overwhelming employees. According to a study by ABCNEWS (2015), 26% of employees said they worked too hard. This was 100 percent the case when I worked as a dispatcher in the oil fields. The division head of this oil company refused to hire enough employees to alleviate the workload of current, exhausted employees. Workplace safety, performance and staff retention have all suffered from employee overwork. The company began seeing a high turnover rate, which had an even greater impact on hours worked. This also saw a decline in morale, employee attendance and attitudes which suffered greatly from the impact of working so many hours. Barajas (2011) explains that overwork is related to the gap between the tasks you are currently doing and what you are supposed to be doing. He suggests that this type of stress creates a lot of tension in the personal and professional environment, which is exactly what the oil company was experiencing. The division manager failed to recognize that there was a problem with employee overwork and showed little concern for how it was affecting current employees. He took nothing into consideration and rarely responded to