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the slow theft of your future self, paid back at time-and-a-half.
means Time worked beyond your normal scheduled hours, often compensated at a higher pay rate, or the extra period played to break a tie in a game.
from A transparent compound of "over" and "time," first surfacing in the language of labor and wages in the 19th century, as the clock became the unit by which work was measured and sold. "Over" here means "beyond, in excess of," the same sense found in "overflow" and "overreach" — so "overtime" is literally the time stacked on top of the time you already owed.
- hockey origin
- first sudden-death NHL overtime came in 1927
- health cost
- long hours raise stroke risk significantly, studies show
- legal threshold
- US law triggers it past 40 weekly hours
- sleep debt
- compounds faster than any bank loan
for instance
super bowl li — chiefs vs 49ers, february 2025, first super bowl with new playoff overtime rules