> > 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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