[SOC] And you thought business was dead!

[Jan Clute]

Sounds like a nerd's nerd to me.

Reicher, James wrote:

>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
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