Topic: You ever wonder how I really work?
From the new York Times:
Worker dead at desk for five 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 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. George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.
You may want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally. The moral of the story: Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyways.
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Lines to Make You Smile!!!
I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Earth is the insane asylum for the universe...
I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are just missing.
Out of my mind. Be back in five minutes.
The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
Wrinkled was not one of the things i wanted to be when I grew up.
Procrastinate now! Why start tomorrow?
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless DEAD.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory.
Ham and eggs... A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
The trouble with life is there's no background music.
The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson.
I smile beacuse I don't know what the heck is going on.
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"Company health plan? Well, we here at Clowns-R-Us like to think that laughter is the best medicine."
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Several men were in a golf club locker room.
A mobile phone rings.
"Yes I can talk," says the man answering the call, "You're shopping are you? That's nice."
The listening men smile to each other.
"You want to order those new carpets? Okay...and they'll include the curtains for an extra five thousand? Sure, why not?"
More smiles among the listeners.
"You want to book that week on Necker Island?...They're holding the price at twenty-two thousand? Sounds like a bargain..you want a fortnight? If that's what you want honey, okay by me."
Smiles turn to expressions of mild envy.
"And you want to give the builder the go-ahead for the new conservatory? Seventy-five thousand if we say yes today? Sounds fair...sure, that's fine."
The listeners exchange glances of amazement.
"Okay sugar, see you later..yes, love you too," says the man, ending the call.
He looks at the other men and says, "Whose phone is this anyhow?"....