[SOC] And you thought business was dead!

[Reicher, James]

WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR FIVE DAYS
>From the New York Times:
Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one noticed
that one of their employees had been sitting dead at this 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 he had been dead for five days after
suffering a coronary.  George was proofreading manuscripts of medical
textbooks when he died.



You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally.  

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

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO