Feeling Unappreciated?
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 Yorkfirm 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 proof reading
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
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 Yorkfirm 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 proof reading
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