Reported in 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.