Hard Working

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.
And the moral of the story:
Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway

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