Worker Dead At Desk For 5 Days

Saruman

**Not a joke IMO but since it made me laugh ill post it here and not After hours, Poor monty has enough crap to deal with!**

WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS (New York Times)

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 20 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office he
shared with 23 other workers.

He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody notices 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 an didn't say anything. He
was always absorbed in his work an 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.

So dear friends the moral of the story is:

Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway.

Sposs

If thats really true post a link,i have my doubts!!!!

Karma

From nytimes website.
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srcht=s&srchst=&query=%22George+Turklebaum%22&date_select=full&submit.x=42&submit.y=9

July 02, 2003

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whatever-its funny!

you know, humour!

I have a paddy joke but I can't prove it so,I cant post it without somebody pulling me on it.

I'm glad you have doubts and are not cynical, hate to lose that, you know.

the end is near, I'm logging off.
DotC

:P

Capt'n Midnight

A Smith & Wesson beats 4 aces

nahdoic

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa013101a.htm

... Medical examiners say that within three days after a person dies, the corpse should exhibit obvious signs of decay: swelling, discoloration, fluid leakage and that distinctive odor of death. It's unlikely those symptoms could have gone unnoticed by Turklebaum's fellow employees on into the fifth day postmortem ...

they have a point ... a rather icky point, but a point nonetheless

de5p0i1er

Strange what ppl can miss in the work place, must be a real boring job.

Saruman

Found this link Its a joke obviously.. well at least we know the truth.. i got it in an email... Google found some other instances of it all on joke sites.

namuras

WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS
Could have been you for all the work you do during the day. The only movement you do is to walk from your desk to the pool table.
But I'm sure the boards would send out the search party for you.
And before you the moderators go off in the deep end on this - it's a joke.. .not a personal slur...

Antisocialiser

Im quite amazed to see namuras posting on a topic he didnt start. As for the topic LoL

Capt'n Midnight

But if you saw namuras posting twice on the same thread THAT would be amazing .....

BioHazRd

This thread is going nowhere....fast

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