>>In the Birmingham Sunday Mercury (7th Jan 2001): WORKER DEAD
AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS.............
Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed
that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for FIVE DAYS before anyone
asked if he was feeling okay. George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a
proof-reader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office
he shared with 23 other workers.
He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday
morning when an office cleaner asked why he was still working during the weekend. His boss
Elliot Wachiaski said: "George was always the first guy in each morning and the last
to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that
time and didn't say anything. "He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to
himself." A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days
after suffering a coronary. Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical
textbooks when he died.
You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally.
And the moral of the story: "DON'T WORK TOO HARD. NOBODY NOTICES
ANYWAY."
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