[3462] in Humor
Humor: Don't Work Too Hard!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor P. Morales)
Mon May 7 23:06:39 2001
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 19:58:12 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Victor P. Morales" <morpheus@alum.mit.edu>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:33 PM
> To: Archey, James D.; Thompson, Ester M.; Anaya, Teresa
> Subject: FW: Don't Work Too Hard!
>
> Subject: Don't Work Too Hard!
>
>
> > 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 proofreader 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 Elliott 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.
> >
>
