A friend of mine has been enjoying an 'enforced holiday' due to a broken leg. She had been working 12-14 hours, sometimes 6 days a week. I felt it was fishy ;). It reminded of this joke:

Two software engineers desperatley need a few days off but the manager keeps refusing. So one day one of them knocks the bulb out of socket and sticks his feet into it hanging upside down just when the managet passes by.

manager: mr x what are you doing? why are you hanging upside down?
engg 1: upside down? no i am standing! after all i am the lightbulb.
manager: get down and take two days off! you need a vacation

with a sad face engg 1 starts walking away. Suddenly engg 2 also starts walking.

manager: mr y now why are you walking?
engg 2: sir i cant work in the dark!