WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS 
 
 New York Times 1-22-03 

 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 

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