[SOC] And you thought business was dead!

[Dan KB6NU]

Well, I used to be an editor for a technical magazine and worked with  
copyeditors. They are usually "nose to the grindstone" types, so I  
can sort of see how this could happen. But a whole week? That seems  
unbelievable.

73!

Dan KB6NU
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On Mar 15, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Jan Clute wrote:

> 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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