WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS New York Times 1-22-03 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. *Moral of the story: Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway.
this is old news buddy .. but yeah .. i think his colleagues should've noticed something. being in the office early or leaving late is not an excuse not to talk to anyone. for five days .. what happen to staff meetings and stuffs ...
What? 2003 is considered old news? LOL... Shit, I'm still reading things from the 1800's... :sleep: ...and no, I'm not dead; I'm just reading...
I wish. Unfortunately, the stuff is reprinted from archival libraries and put onto the net for readers. http://www.archive.org/index.php Which, I might add, is just awesome. Try entering a phrase like Taiping Rebellion into the search window and you'll find several photocopied reprints of original documents that detailed that point of history nearly contemporaneous to the event. As a matter of fact, if you're interested in history, then this is the preferred way of doing it. That is, to review documents as close to the event as possible. Many people don't realized how the internet has significantly provided professional and amateur historians alike with one of the most powerful research tools ever. A private researcher doing things in his spare time before, could spend a lifetime and would not even get close to one one hundredth of what he can access and simply click on in the span of a few months. -bigsmiles As I near the twilight of my years, I really envy the young who are being born into this; they still have a lifetime to explore the world. I always tell my kids not to waste their time on things that don't matter, because life will pass you by.-what? Let's hope that the poor guy at least died doing something that he loved.
wow... this sucks for that guy.... its amazing how not a single person working with him cared enough to notice...
theres a difference between news and history lol....but damn shit there gotta be some weird shit happening nowadays but all we can care about is the economy.
WHAT .. "twilight of my years"??? are you serious about it??? I do agree that kids nowadays have so much more powerful tools at their disposal but many don't use it. It's good that you're telling your kids that ... only if they'll listen to you.
Well, I'm nearing early retirement age, but with the economy the way it is, don't think what's left in the 401 would be worth the risk. Heck, social security probably won't be their either (but it was still a damned good thing that we didn't let Wall Street get its grubby hands on that slice of the government pie). As for the second comment; yeah, they need to use it or lose it. I'm always trying to steer my boys into looking beyond the printed word of one item on one page. They find one thing that they like and it becomes the end all of their "research." LOL... :laugh:
i want to say that thats funny..but i think i should show some respect for the deceased.... jeeez..that guy must have had no friends for noone to not notice he was dead :S so how long after does the body start to smell?
After five days, he must have been pretty rank, so I'm guessing that the ventilation in his cubicle must have been pretty good.
