Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to figure out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was okay. George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proof-reader at a New York firm for 20 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.
Gus boss, Eliot Wachiaski, said, "George was always the first guy in each morning and the last one 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 exam revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.
    You might want to give your co-workers a nudge occasionally. The moral of the story: Don't work too hard, no one notices anyway.