-Idiot Story-
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.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's exiting episode
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.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's exiting episode
