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dream996

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Registered: 03/15/09

George Turklebaum, R.I.P. (story Time =p

i found this quite funny even thought is not meant to be

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

Last edited by dream996 (12/08/09 13:12)

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Mukade

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From: Ottawa, Ontario - Canada

Registered: 05/29/07

Re: George Turklebaum, R.I.P. (story Time =p

That's sad, disturbing and hilarious all at the same time... true story?? omg...

@ Moral, i already knew that ^_^

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