FW: Nudge your co-workers!

< < In the Birmingham Sunday Mercury (7th Jan 2001):
< < WORKER DEAD AT DESK FOR 5 DAYS
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< < 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.
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< < 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.
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< < And the moral of the story: Don't work too hard.
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< < Nobody notices anyway.
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