# Work, Work, Work

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-work-work/6269>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 17, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-work-work/6269 "2000-01-17T04:33:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-work-work/6269/1 "2000-01-17T04:33:00Z")

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Has anyone else seen this?

A friend just sent me a news article that purports to come from the _Houston Chronicle_, November 20, 1999. (I’ll paraphrase it, rather than quote it, so Nickrz doesn’t have a tizzy about copyright.)

According to the article, a lady in Texas succeeded in a workers’ compensation claim for repetitive stress/carpal tunnel problems. All right so far, you’re thinking, those keyboards can be hell, some nights I can barely Straight Dope for three hours.

Well, the unusual thing was her occupation - phone sex lady. She got the carpal tunnel from repeated, um, self-stimulation, up to eight times a day, with orgasm, 15 minutes for average clients, 30 minutes with regulars who asked for her.

Is this for real? I mean, in the Great White North we’re used to seeing weird court cases from the south, but this one seems just a bit too, well, wacky?

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and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-work-work/6269/2 "2000-01-17T04:34:00Z")

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so somehow, even with “flood control” I managed to start two threads on the same topic?

I’m a technoklutz.

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and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-work-work/6269/3 "2000-01-17T04:55:00Z")

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This one passed through here, last week, I think.

Check GD.

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**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-work-work/6269/4 "2000-01-17T05:00:00Z")

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