[lugbe] Is it really worth working ?

[Andreas.Halter@comfone.com]

Hallo Leute,

ich muss das einfach posten ... ist zu radikal.
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the Birmingham Sunday Mercury (7th Jan 2001):

WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS.............

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.

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

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