Subject: Worker Dead At Desk For 5 Days
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 14:31:38 EDT
"The Organization"
The organization is like a tree full of monkeys,
all on different limbs at different levels, some
climbing up, some fooling around, some simply
just idling.
The monkeys on top look down and see a tree
full of smiling faces.
The monkeys on the bottom look up and see
nothing but "a*******." (you can fill in the blank).
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"Worker Dead At Desk For 5 Days"
From the Birmingham Sunday Mercury
(7th Jan 2001)
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.
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