hmm...disturbing

[supersizeme]

DEAD or ALIVE

In the Birmingham Sunday Mercury (Jan. 7, 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 proofreader 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.

 

[Kakdiesel]

really fucked up

 

[Freak Show]

Wasn't there some sort of insurance commercial that had a lady come into her husband's work, change his clothes, move him a bit to make people think he was still alive and so she could keep gettin his check. Morbidly funny. Kinda reminds me of this story.

 

[bstone]

I think that this may be BS. I read the same thing almost a year ago.

 

[Cleaner]

I'm in abuilding by myself.
It could be months for me.
I would hope the wife would come looking -- she would want the insurance money.

 

[Slice of Peach2]

Cleaner, that is sad.

Anyway, those are some shallow people in that guy's office. People just don't care about each other anymore.

Didn't they smell him?

 

[FrankRizzo]

He'd have been noticed for sure in this office. I harrass everybody too much to not notice someone dead. If i dodn't get a reaction out of you with a rubber band then I start ringing your phone sending nasty emails. I'd have known it if any of my collegues were dead.

 

[WarriorPL]

how do you not notice that a guy is dead for 5 days?? BS


~WizKid

 

[vixenbabe]

I'm sorry--but I'm laughing and crying at the same time...

"Hey George, make sure you turn the lights off when ya leave."

"Hey George, you seem a tad bit quiet these past few days."

"Hey George, you look a lil white. You feeling ok?Damn, George ain't sayin shit. He talkin to you guys?"

It's SAD, really....Poor man must not have any family...

 

[supersizeme]

yeah it is kinda sad. i would've thought the smell would've hit before that. that man was probably stiff as a board in that chair by the 5th day.