[Randy forwarded this to the grif.net as a reminder about living life every
day.]
Bosses at 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 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. George was proofreading manuscripts of medical
textbooks when he died.
The moral of the story is twofold:
(1) You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally.
(2) And don’t work too hard. Nobody notices anyway.
~~
Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
“Jesus knows me, this I love”