dunno if it's true or not...


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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 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.

*** Moral of the story: Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway. :no:

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Although it's an amusing story, it is completely false... It originally appeared in the Weekly World News back in 2000. You can check out the details here.

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hehe keith101 u always where a bit weird in the head

i think i'd find it funny tho :yes: i find most things funny tho :D

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I thought it might be fake because SOMEONE would have noticed the smell, flies, decomposition...but I still got a kick out of it.

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I thought it might be fake because SOMEONE would have noticed the smell, flies, decomposition...but I still got a kick out of it.

lol what if he was like that every day?

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Without being sick on my part, how funny would it be to nudge your m8 sitting beside you and just watch him fall over...

(Y) agreed for some reason i could picture that, and it makes me laugh

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