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They are overworked, and they often suffer the strains of I would even say post-traumatic stress syndrome. – Judge Bruce Einhorn	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's one of the main reasons we're doing this. Everyone there is so overworked, it's pay, but it's also staffing, it's proper training, working environment. – Vincent Quile	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We got enough people in our ranks that were like,' This may not be impossible anymore. And it may be incredibly necessary.' Because in years prior, I think people could hang onto the fact that things were bad, but not bad enough, it wasn't until after Covid — when we went in with less people, being overworked, underpaid, inflation out of control. – Monica Garza	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are overworked, underpaid and understaffed, am I happy with what they did? No, I’m not. What I want to show, though, is how easily we can send damaging messages to our children. – Courtesy Ashley Heun	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bulls---. – Terese Davis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The problem with these sorts of stories is they happen incrementally, one of the very tragic things about these stories is that in order for the public to really pay attention to them, something really dramatic has to happen. Unfortunately, that might be an overworked lorry driver crashing into a family car or children falling ill through malnourishment. – Rob Ford	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All of a sudden we had 50 to 100 % more business than we did, even prior to Covid, with a third of the staff. So everybody was getting overwhelmed, overworked and frustrated, both customers and staff. – Jobless Americans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think I'm too overworked, they just regard working hard as one kind of things for Chinese people to do. – Tony Tang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Part of it is just exhausting our personnel. Health care is complicated and people make mistakes when they're overworked. – David Hill	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are very few prosecutors in Japan. They are massively overworked. Given the workload, they focus first on the slam dunk, guilty-as-sin cases. They don't have time for the' maybe he did it, maybe he didn't cases,'. – Mark Ramseyer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Part of Though Italy health system is just exhausting our personnel. Health care is complicated and people make mistakes when they're overworked. – David Hill	Found on CNN 4 years ago
On the space station it is important that you are a nice boss, my main task is to make sure that there's good communication, that everyone is happy and that everyone has what he needs and isn't overworked or bored. – Alexander Gerst	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I'm very impressed, I think he's done a very good job, his resume couldn't be better, his principles are fundamentally and yet his persona is, to use an overworked expression Reaganesque, in that he is a kind man at heart and people don't feel threatened by his conservative point of view. – New Hampshire Sen. Gordon Humphrey	Found on CNN 8 years ago

They are overworked, and they often suffer the strains of I would even say post-traumatic stress syndrome.

– Judge Bruce Einhorn

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's one of the main reasons we're doing this. Everyone there is so overworked, it's pay, but it's also staffing, it's proper training, working environment.

– Vincent Quile

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We got enough people in our ranks that were like,' This may not be impossible anymore. And it may be incredibly necessary.' Because in years prior, I think people could hang onto the fact that things were bad, but not bad enough, it wasn't until after Covid — when we went in with less people, being overworked, underpaid, inflation out of control.

– Monica Garza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are overworked, underpaid and understaffed, am I happy with what they did? No, I’m not. What I want to show, though, is how easily we can send damaging messages to our children.

– Courtesy Ashley Heun

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions is bulls---.

– Terese Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The problem with these sorts of stories is they happen incrementally, one of the very tragic things about these stories is that in order for the public to really pay attention to them, something really dramatic has to happen. Unfortunately, that might be an overworked lorry driver crashing into a family car or children falling ill through malnourishment.

– Rob Ford

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All of a sudden we had 50 to 100 % more business than we did, even prior to Covid, with a third of the staff. So everybody was getting overwhelmed, overworked and frustrated, both customers and staff.

– Jobless Americans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think I'm too overworked, they just regard working hard as one kind of things for Chinese people to do.

– Tony Tang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Part of it is just exhausting our personnel. Health care is complicated and people make mistakes when they're overworked.

– David Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are very few prosecutors in Japan. They are massively overworked. Given the workload, they focus first on the slam dunk, guilty-as-sin cases. They don't have time for the' maybe he did it, maybe he didn't cases,'.

– Mark Ramseyer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Part of Though Italy health system is just exhausting our personnel. Health care is complicated and people make mistakes when they're overworked.

– David Hill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

On the space station it is important that you are a nice boss, my main task is to make sure that there's good communication, that everyone is happy and that everyone has what he needs and isn't overworked or bored.

– Alexander Gerst

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I'm very impressed, I think he's done a very good job, his resume couldn't be better, his principles are fundamentally and yet his persona is, to use an overworked expression Reaganesque, in that he is a kind man at heart and people don't feel threatened by his conservative point of view.

– New Hampshire Sen. Gordon Humphrey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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