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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:41:52 -0800
From: David Dyson <dave@Barra.COM>
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Subject: don't let this happen to you...
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>         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.