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Think of this guy.

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Frederick

Frederick Report 16 May 2010 17:27


The next time you feel that nobody loves you, no one cares, or that no one ever notices you, think of this guy:

Worker dead at desk for five days.

Bosses at a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead 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 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, George was proof reading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.

You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally.
The moral of the story. Don't work to hard. Nobody notices anyway.

F.

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 16 May 2010 17:29

that cant be true surely, someone would have noticed,

thats terrible xx

Jane

Jane Report 16 May 2010 17:33

I would have thought the smell might have given it away !!

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 16 May 2010 17:34

plus id have noticed were i used to work if somone was asleep for 5days and not purducign no work x

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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 16 May 2010 17:35

It's an Urban myth but hey, a lot of the World's newspapers believed it lol