A cautionary tale for those of you who consider 80-hour work weeks to be "normal." Aaron Brunell, 26, by all accounts a savvy and highly regarded dot-com exec, was found dead in his room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York last Sunday. An empty champagne bottle was found near Brunell's body, and his father -- tech publisher David Brunell -- believes his son was taking uppers to keep himself going. "I knew from a couple of his friends that he was getting burned out," Brunell said. "He may have been stimulating himself to keep going and going. He pushed it too far."
Worked to Death
A cautionary tale for those of you who consider 80-hour work weeks to be "normal." Aaron Brunell, 26, by all accounts a savvy and highly regarded dot-com exec, was found dead in his room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York last Sunday. An empty champagne bottle was found near Brunell's body, and his father -- tech publisher David Brunell -- believes his son was taking uppers to keep himself going. "I knew from a couple of his friends that he was getting burned out," Brunell said. "He may have been stimulating himself to keep going and going. He pushed it too far."
