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Jim Muise (Writerguy)
Member
Username: Writerguy
Post Number: 350
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 11:39 am: | |
well we haven't had a Trolling for a while Rob Banned the pipsqueek but it is nice to think it could be... (i know that is sick but hey...) |
Jerry W. (Tork1966)
Intermediate Member
Username: Tork1966
Post Number: 1086
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 11:37 am: | |
It wasn't Mr. Green was it??? |
PeterS (Peters)
Intermediate Member
Username: Peters
Post Number: 1695
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 9:32 am: | |
I guess this one is true! Check out http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa013101a.htm |
Mark (Markg)
Member
Username: Markg
Post Number: 633
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 9:23 am: | |
Could be true, but ....sounds like an urban legend or variation of a common joke about sleeping vs dead employees.
I've seen people who have been dead 5 days, and there is NO way that isn't going to be noticable (post mortem lividity alone is a "dead" give-away...think of a long dead pale fish belly palor with bright pink/red lower extremities). By day 5 bacterial bloating would have cause the editor to alomost double in size.....
Unless the AC was at full blast to the point of halting bacterial growth the odor would be unbearable (and it does NOT dry clean out of your uniform! got to burn them).
But then again some employees are so self-centered or work-aholic like that anything could be missed..... |
DGS (Dgs)
Member
Username: Dgs
Post Number: 449
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 7:22 am: | |
Another horrible tragedy that could have been averted by a Ferrari in the parking lot ...
... dragging you away from the desk for some elevated heart-rate exercise. |
Gordo A. (Gordo)
Junior Member
Username: Gordo
Post Number: 218
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 5:56 am: | |
Worker dead at desk for five days
The New York Times reported that bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why nobody noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling OK. George Turklebaum (51) who had been working as a proof reader at a New York firm for 30 years had a heart attack in the open plan office that he shared with 23 other colleagues.
He quietly passed away on Monday but nobody noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was working at the weekend.
His boss, Elliot Wachaiski said "George was always the first guy in each morning and the last one to leave each night so nobody 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. George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.
You may want to give your colleagues a nudge occasionally.
The moral of this story is - "Don't work too hard - nobody notices anyway." |