There's a story going around claiming to be from the New York Times. I'm trying to confirm it.
It will fall into the "Internet Legend" category even if it is not true.
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 twenty-three 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 proofreading 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 too hard. Nobody notices anyway.
UPDATE: I knew it was too good to be true.
Here are the details: Online Diary Archive
I bet this story gets sent to 40 million people today.
16 years ago
3 comments:
Good to know that equal opportunity jobs apply to the undead as well.
I bet George got a big raise, too!
I worked on a team with a guy that would fall asleep while talking to the users. He got employee of the month for like 4 months straight.
We used to turn up his speakers rig up scheduled tasks to play wave files. He snapped awake once and broke his chair.
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